The aim of this article was to design a measurement
scale of motives for second-hand shopping.
Having developed a tool with satisfactory psychometric
properties, we obtained a measure of the
construct, which is reflected in two principal factors –
economic and recreational – themselves higher-order
constructs comprising seven primary motives. The
scale’s reliability, and its convergent and discriminant
validities, were confirmed. We showed its
nomological validity on behaviors linked to second