The major issues of the conference are focused on (but not limited to) the following:
- Consumption, the value transmission and social changes
- Psychological and social costs/benefits of consumer societies
- Materialism, mercantilism and well-being
- Money and happiness
- Work and organization in the culture of consumption
- Social influence, media, materialism and consumerism
- Consumption and subjective well-being among children and youth
- Consumption versus spirituality and SWB
- Strategies of happy and healthy life
- Measurement of welfare and well-being
- Materialism, consumption and well-being in cross-cultural perspective