Generation Me in the Spotlight: Linking Reality TV to Materialism, Entitlement, and Narcissism

Opree, Suzanna J.; Kühne, Rinaldo

doi:10.1080/15205436.2016.1199706

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“…Chronic attention to prevalent and conceptually congruent media representations, therefore, increases the probability of salient, recurring, and affective aspects of these representations significantly inflecting a viewer's mnemonic structures and concomitant conceptions of reality (Morgan & Shanahan, 2010;Nabi & Riddle, 2008). Following this theorizing, a growing body of cultivation research argues that heavy television consumption cultivates materialism, because television is rife with content that explicitly links wealth, fame, and luxury to happiness, success, and status (Good, 2007;Lewallen et al, 2016;Opree & Kühne, 2016;Yang et al, 2008). As this research so far consists of cross-sectional studies and a couple of experiments, it can only provide a tentative account of how materialism cultivation -a longitudinal phenomenon, actually occurs.…”

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Experimental insights into the socio-cognitive effects of viewing materialistic media messages on welfare support

Leyva

2018

Media Psychology

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Experimental insights into the socio-cognitive effects of viewing materialistic media messages on welfare support

Leyva

2018

Media Psychology

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“…The Material Values Scale for children (MVS-c) was first introduced in 2011 (Opree et al 2011). Though used in a variety of disciplines including developmental psychology, sociology, and marketing (e.g., Jiang et al 2015;Opree and Kühne 2016), the MVS-c is mainly applied within the field of communication studies-more particularly to study the effects of advertising on children's feelings of longing and belonging (e.g., Hudders et al 2016;Opree et al 2012Opree et al , 2014. The MVS-c has three versions, the full-length 18-item version and two shorter versions consisting of six and three items respectively, and it has been validated for use among children between the ages of 8 and 12 (Opree et al 2011).…”

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“…Recently, researchers have started applying the MVS-c to other age groups than it was originally intended for. Jiang et al (2015) used the 6-item MVS-c among a Chinese sample of 12-to 16-year-olds and Opree and Kühne (2016) used the 6-item MVS-c among two Dutch samples of 15-to 17-year-olds and 18-to 21-year-olds. Both teams of authors found high levels of internal consistency for the MVS-c. Jiang et al (2015) reported a Cronbach's alpha of .85, and Opree and Kühne (2016) reported alphas of .93 and .88.…”

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“…Jiang et al (2015) used the 6-item MVS-c among a Chinese sample of 12-to 16-year-olds and Opree and Kühne (2016) used the 6-item MVS-c among two Dutch samples of 15-to 17-year-olds and 18-to 21-year-olds. Both teams of authors found high levels of internal consistency for the MVS-c. Jiang et al (2015) reported a Cronbach's alpha of .85, and Opree and Kühne (2016) reported alphas of .93 and .88. Although these findings suggest that the 6-item MVS-c can be implemented among older age groups, this conclusion cannot be substantiated without looking at its factorial structure (DeVellis 2016).…”

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Validating the Short Material Values Scale for Children for Use Across the Lifespan

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Opree

2018

Child Youth Care Forum

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Background Materialism is a topic of interest for many scholars. Among children it is often measured with the Material Values Scale for children (MVS-c) (Opree et al. in Personal Individ Differ 51(8):963-968, 2011). Although the MVS-c was originally validated for use among 8-to 12-year-olds, its 6-item version is increasingly implemented among older populations (i.e., adolescents and emerging adults). Objective The aim of the current study is to verify whether the 6-item MVS-c can be employed among older populations and used for the analysis of materialism across the lifespan. Method The 6-item MVS-c is administered to children in middle childhood (ages 8-12; n = 2995), adolescents (ages 15-17; n = 267), emerging adults (ages 18-21; n = 267), and adult parents (ages 25 +; n = 2995). Its factorial structure, reliability, and validity are assessed and compared. Particular attention is paid to the scale's metric and scalar invariance. Results The results suggest that the 6-item MVS-c can be reliably and validly used across the different age groups. By showing metric invariance and (partial) scalar invariance using multigroup structural equation modeling, we demonstrate that it is possible to use the 6-item MVS-c to compare materialism scores and to study the predictors and outcomes of materialism across all four age groups. Conclusions The findings suggest that the MVS-c can be used to track children's materialism and investigate its associated causes and consequences across different developmental phases.

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“…Prior to entitlement being examined as its own construct, it was considered to be a part of trait narcissism (e.g., Davis, Wester, & King, 2008;Opree & Kühne, 2016).…”

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Should the Squeaky Wheel Get the Grease? The Organizational Impact of Rewarding Entitled or Proactive Employees

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Two studies were conducted to understand the role of rewards in workplace entitlement and employee proactivity. In Study 1, contrary to expectations, rewards did not affect counterproductive work behaviour or organizational citizenship behaviour, although it is likely that the manipulation was not strong enough. However, in general, entitled people were more likely to report negative and positive organizational behaviours. In Study 2, managers were more likely to reward proactive employees with a desirable project but some also rewarded entitled employees as a way to reduce conflict. Further research is needed to understand how to administer rewards without encouraging entitled behaviour.

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Generation Me in the Spotlight: Linking Reality TV to Materialism, Entitlement, and Narcissism

Cited by 15 publications

References 57 publications

Experimental insights into the socio-cognitive effects of viewing materialistic media messages on welfare support

Experimental insights into the socio-cognitive effects of viewing materialistic media messages on welfare support

Validating the Short Material Values Scale for Children for Use Across the Lifespan

Should the Squeaky Wheel Get the Grease? The Organizational Impact of Rewarding Entitled or Proactive Employees

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