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- Title
Changes in materialism, changes in psychological well-being: Evidence from three longitudinal studies and an intervention experiment.
- Authors
Kasser, Tim; Rosenblum, Katherine; Sameroff, Arnold; Deci, Edward; Niemiec, Christopher; Ryan, Richard; Árnadóttir, Osp; Bond, Rod; Dittmar, Helga; Dungan, Nathan; Hawks, Susan
- Abstract
Few studies have examined how changes in materialism relate to changes in well-being; fewer have experimentally manipulated materialism to change well-being. Studies 1, 2, and 3 examined how changes in materialistic aspirations related to changes in well-being, using varying time frames (12 years, 2 years, and 6 months), samples (US young adults and Icelandic adults), and measures of materialism and well-being. Across all three studies, results supported the hypothesis that people's well-being improves as they place relatively less importance on materialistic goals and values, whereas orienting toward materialistic goals relatively more is associated with decreases in well-being over time. Study 2 additionally demonstrated that this association was mediated by changes in psychological need satisfaction. A fourth, experimental study showed that highly materialistic US adolescents who received an intervention that decreased materialism also experienced increases in self-esteem over the next several months, relative to a control group. Thus, well-being changes as people change their relative focus on materialistic goals.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGICAL well-being; MATERIALISM; LONGITUDINAL method; OPERANT behavior; ADOLESCENT psychology; SELF-esteem; GOAL (Psychology)
- Publication
Motivation & Emotion, 2014, Vol 38, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0146-7239
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11031-013-9371-4