Abstract
The objectives of this study are to examine the propensity of conspicuous consumption of adolescent consumers to investigate the effects of demographic variables socio-psychologival variables materialism on the conspicuous consumption of adolescent consumers. The survey of this research was conducted by means of self-administered questionnaire with 483 adolescent consumers attending middle school located in Inchon. Major findings are the following: (1) The propensity for conspicuous consumption of adolescent consumers averages 47.98 points. This score is beyound the middle slightly. (2) According to the results for examining the relative influences of variables affecting conspicuous consumption of adolescent consumers the relative importance stars school education the degree of taking in advertisement attitude of their parents self-esteem materialism gender and educational level of their father. Explanatory power of these variables totalled 70.5%.