Development and initial validation of the multidimensional dispositional greed assessment (MDGA) with adults

Lambie, Glenn W.; Haugen, Jaimie Stickl; Tabet, Saundra M.

doi:10.1080/23311908.2021.2019654

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“…In line with their conceptualization, their measure contains only generic items, that is, items that are formulated on an abstract and general level (e.g., "One can never have enough," p. 226). This is in line with Seuntjens, Zeelenberg, and Lambie et al (2022) who also considered greed to be generic (although their measures of greed, the 7-item Dispositional Greed Scale and the 20-item Multidimensional Dispositional Greed Assessment include only items relating to money and not to other domains). Other authors have explicitly adopted the view that greed mainly reflects a materialistic desire.…”

Section: Trait Greedsupporting

confidence: 79%

“…Finally, a person’s greed may come at the expense of others. Although greedy individuals do not necessarily intend to harm others, they accept that their striving for more may have negative consequences for others ( Lambie et al, 2022 ; Mussel & Hewig, 2016 ; Mussel & Hewig, 2019 ).…”

Section: Trait Greedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regarding measurement, several self-report instruments have been developed to assess greed: The Greed Trait Measure ( Mussel et al, 2015 ), the subscale Greed from the Vices and Virtues Scales ( Veselka et al, 2014 ), two instruments both labeled Dispositional Greed Scale ( Krekels & Pandelaere, 2015 ; Seuntjens, Zeelenberg, Van de Ven, et al, 2015 ), the Multidimensional Dispositional Greed Assessment ( Lambie et al, 2022 ), and the GR€€D scale ( Mussel & Hewig, 2016 ). These measures have been shown to exhibit good psychometric properties, including the prediction of theoretically related criteria, and to converge on a single latent factor ( Mussel et al, 2018 ).…”

Section: Trait Greedmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Domain-Specific Greed

Weiß

Schulze

Krumm

et al. 2023

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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Greed, the insatiable and excessive desire and striving for more even at the expense of others, may be directed toward various goods. In this article, we propose that greed may be conceptualized as a domain-specific construct. Based on a literature review and an expert survey, we identified 10 domains of greed which we operationalized with the DOmain-SPEcific Greed (DOSPEG) questionnaire. In Study 1 ( N = 725), we found support for the proposed structure and convergent validity with related constructs. Bifactor-(S-1) models revealed that generic greed is differentially related to the greed domains, indicating that generic greed primarily captures a striving for money and material things. In the second study ( N = 591), we found that greed domains had incremental validity beyond generic greed with regard to corresponding criteria assessed via self- and other-reports. We conclude that greed can be conceptualized as a domain-specific construct and propose an onion model reflecting this structure.

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Section: Trait Greedsupporting

confidence: 79%

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Section: Trait Greedmentioning

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Domain-Specific Greed

Weiß

Schulze

Krumm

et al. 2023

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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“…In the last decade, various self-report scales have been published: the Greed Avoidance subscale from the HEXACO (Lee & Ashton, 2004), the Greed-subscale from the Vices and Virtues Scales (Veselka et al, 2014), the Greed Trait Measure (Mussel et al, 2015), two Dispositional Greed Scales (DGSs; Krekels & Pandelaere, 2015;, the GR€€D scale (Mussel & Hewig, 2016), and the Multidimensional Dispositional Greed Assessment (MDGA; Lambie et al, 2022). Mussel et al (2018) investigated the convergent validity of the five scales developed between 2014 and 2016 and found that "despite the conceptual differences, these scales converged on a common latent factor" (p. 249).…”

Section: Greedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Greed: What Is It Good for?

Hoyer

Zeelenberg

Breugelmans

2022

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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What is greed good for? Greed is ubiquitous, suggesting that it must have some benefits, but it is also often condemned. In a representative sample of the Dutch population ( N = 2,367, 51.3% female, Mage = 54.06, SD = 17.90), we examined two questions. First, inspired by Eriksson et al., we studied whether greedy people generate more personal and household income (economic outcomes), have more sexual partners, longer relationships, and more offspring (evolutionary outcomes), and are more satisfied in life (psychological outcomes). We found that greedy individuals had higher economic outcomes, mixed evolutionary outcomes, and lower psychological outcomes. Second, we compared greed and self-interest. We found that they differed in terms of economic outcomes, and partly in terms of evolutionary outcomes, but that they were similar in terms of psychological outcomes. This research provides insights into what greed is and does. Directions for further research are discussed.

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“…Second, the DGS is not the only instrument to assess dispositional greed, although it is the most widely used and translated scale. There are also the Greed Avoidance subscale from the HEXACO (Lee & Ashton, 2004), the Greed subscale from the Vices and Virtues Scales (Veselka et al, 2014), the Greed Trait Measure (Mussel et al, 2018), the Dispositional Greed Scale by Krekels and Pandelaere (2015), the GR€€D scale (Mussel & Hewig, 2016), and more recently, the Multidimensional Dispositional Greed Assessment (MDGA; Lambie et al, 2022) and the Domain Specific Greed (DOSPEG) questionnaire (Weiß et al, 2023). Although these scales differ in their particular details and items, we are confident that results found with the DGS will compare to those found with these other scales on the basis of direct, empirical scale comparisons by Mussel et al (2018) and who found that all scales (with the exception of the MDGA and the DOSPEG which were not yet available then) had good psychometric properties and loaded on the same, latent construct.…”

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A Translation and Validation of the Dispositional Greed Scale in Spanish

Estrada-Mejia,

Zeelenberg,

Breugelmans

2023

Psychological Test Adaptation and Development

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Greed is best defined as the “experience of desiring to acquire more and the dissatisfaction of never having enough” ( Seuntjens, Zeelenberg, Breugelmans, & Van De Ven, 2015 , p. 518). The Dispositional Greed Scale ( Seuntjens, Zeelenberg, Van De Ven, & Breugelmans, 2015 ) is most often used to measure greed and has been validated for various languages, although not for Spanish. We present the first Spanish translation of the DGS. We tested two parallel translations of the scale ( N = 305) using two related but distinct words for greedy: codicioso and avaricioso. Both translations showed unidimensional factor structure, with acceptable reliability. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis showed evidence for scalar equivalence of both translations. A comparison with data from a previous English version of the scale showed evidence of metric equivalence. Additionally, we found the expected relationships between greed and envy, materialism, need for achievement, and self-improvement. We conclude the DGS-Spanish has been successful in capturing the essential features of the DGS.

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Development and initial validation of the multidimensional dispositional greed assessment (MDGA) with adults

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