Note, however, that there is no rea

Note, however, that there is no reason for purchase intentions for necessity products to vary on the basis of one’s level of hyperopia. With the purchase likelihood index for the set of 10 necessity products, similar regression analyses were conducted and revealed that hyperopia did not predict the purchase intentions of necessities either with or without the luxury perception index included in the model. Specifically, using just the hyperopia measure resulted in a nonsignificant relationship (F(1, 158) p .17, p1 .2, bp .82). Again, the significant effect of individuals’ luxury perceptions as a whole did predict purchase likelihood of necessities when included in the model, but the effect of hyperopia remained nonsignificant (hyperopia: F(1, 156) p.17, p1 .6, bp .31; luxury perceptions: F(1, 156) p 12.56, p! .001, bp .18). As such, hyperopia predicted the likelihood that consumers would purchase luxuries but not necessities.