Looking for happiness in all the wrong places: The moderating role of gratitude and affect in the materialism–life satisfaction relationship

Roberts, James A.; Tsang, Jo‐Ann; Manolis, Chris

doi:10.1080/17439760.2015.1004553

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“…Lucas and Donnellan [167] investigated long-lasting stability and change of well-being using a statistical model, STARTS, to analyze life satisfaction data and found a considerable degree of instability that might be due to contextual circumstances. Furthermore, Roberts et al [100] recommended a model that explains the negative association between materialism and life satisfaction and concluded negative effects, positive effects and gratitude as essential factors associating materialism and dissatisfaction with life.…”

Section: Measurement Of Happinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gender and period of life -Bojanowska and Zalewska [189] Self-rated health, perceived (ethnic) discrimination, education, housing, income, and ethnic group identification -Gender, age, and country Kamberi et al [190] Age, health, gender, level of education, religion, nationality, marital status, employment status, number of children, income, family, friends, leisure time, politics, work in life, trust factors between people, and political orientation --Selim [48] Affective and interpersonal-social self-efficacy beliefs (with parents and peers) --Caprara et al [191] Materialism Gratitude and positive affect -moderators and negative affect -mediator -Roberts et al [100] Selective optimization and compensation (SOC) Age Gender, education years, working status, self-reported health.…”

Section: Mechanismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Can I Sustain My Happiness? A Review, Critique and Research Agenda for Economics of Happiness

Jain

Sharma

Mahendru³

2019

Sustainability

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Human beings want to live in a state of happiness and prosperity, but happiness is important not just for the well-being of individuals but for the well-being of society. To ensure the maximization of happiness, it is necessary to consider more than just money, and rather include the right understanding of happiness at the individual level, the family level, the society level, and the environmental (nature) level. This paper contributes to the existing body of knowledge by consolidating the findings of the literature; grouping those into major themes and sub-themes; describing the mechanisms based on the empirical papers by highlighting the independent, dependent, control, and moderating variables, to study the causal relationships between variables under study; proposing an agenda for future research; and informing the policymakers about decisions influencing the human happiness level through legislative rules and regulations. Our results suggest prioritizing the conceptualization of happiness while computing the happiness level at the individual or collective levels. Furthermore, the study recommends governments to establish the conditions enabling individuals to report happiness independently from the political pressure to answer strategically for impressive happiness level figures at the macro level.

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Section: Measurement Of Happinessmentioning

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Can I Sustain My Happiness? A Review, Critique and Research Agenda for Economics of Happiness

Jain

Sharma

Mahendru³

2019

Sustainability

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“…Citizens of industrialized countries have reached material individualism that poses a threat to their own subjective well-being as well as environmental, economic and social sustainability. In these overdeveloped countries, people who pursue happiness through material gain tend to feel worse, which is related to negative appraisals of their life satisfaction (Roberts et al 2015). Unprecedented consumption levels are problematic in overdeveloped countries, where the culture of 'having' is dominating and consumption is based on desires and wants instead of real needs.…”

Section: Ambivalent Materialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change Education: A New Approach for a World of Wicked Problems

Lehtonen

Salonen

Cantell

2018

Sustainability, Human Well-Being, and the Future of Education

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A rapid growth of population and more materialistic ways of life have given rise to what many geologists now call the era of the Anthropocene. 1 In the Anthropocene, it is human activities that are the main factor determining the future of civilization. Climate change is a wicked problem 2 that threatens the continuity of life. According to the analysis of 11,944 scientific papers, written by 29,083 authors and published in 1980 journals, there is over a 97% consensus on anthropogenic global warming (Cook et al. 2013). The importance of climate is clear for humans as we need food, fresh water, fiber, timber and protection from hazards to survive and thrive. Climate influences crop productivity, disease, water scarcity or availability, and vulnerability to hazards (Sachs 2015).

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“…Materialists on average are less happy according to numerous researches. (Roberts, Tsang, & Manolis, 2015) relate materialism with negative affect and they predicted that negative affect would the effect of materialism on life satisfaction and proposed a model to explain materialism and life dissatisfaction. Additionally, ISSN 1943-13842019 they predicted that gratitude would moderate the relationship between materialism and both negative affect and satisfaction with life such that the positive affect will be lessened as a function of gratitude and the negative effect of materialism on satisfaction with life will also be diminished as a function of gratitude and their results are consistent with their predictions.…”

Section: Gap Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Numerous researches show that happiness seeking through material things is negatively related to life satisfaction. For instance, (Roberts, Tsang, & Manolis, 2015) proposed a model that explains the negative relationship between materialism and life satisfaction. Result shows that materialism exhibited a significant direct and negative affect on satisfaction with life.…”

Section: Materialism and Life Satisfactionmentioning

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Seeking Happiness through Materialism, Gratitude and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Pakistani Employees, with the Mediatory Role of Feeling Experiences

Mısbah

Siddiqui²

2019

IJMIS

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This research paper proposed a theoretical framework that focused on the link between materialism and dissatisfaction with life. Through modifying J. A. Roberts (2015) model, we proposed that Seeking Happiness through Materialism is associated with positive or negative feeling experiences, and these experiences produce an effect on one’s life satisfaction. Furthermore, we also explored bi-directional impact of gratitude and materialism in two models. In first model, the effect of materialism and life satisfaction was explored with the mediating role of gratitude and feeling experiences, whereas, in second model, the impact of gratitude on life satisfaction was analyzed with the mediation of materialism and experiences. The link was empirically established by collecting the data on 205 employees working in different sectors and professions in Pakistan. Data was collected by means of close ended questionnaire and was analyzed using Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structure Equation Modeling. The results showed a significant effect of materialism in employee’s life satisfaction and gratitude plays a mediating role. The negative relationship between materialism and life satisfaction among employees indicated as materialism increased satisfaction with life decrease. This was experience directly and through the mediation of feeling experiences. Moreover, Materialism negatively affected gratitude. In the second model, Employees having either high gratitude shows less materialism and positive feeling effect, whereas, employees having low gratitude shows high negative feeling effect because they are seeking happiness through material things. Additionally, those employees who are able to appreciate what they have, are happier and enjoying their life. Thus, feelings, gratitude, and materialism are crucial factors influencing employee’s life satisfaction either positively or negatively.

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Looking for happiness in all the wrong places: The moderating role of gratitude and affect in the materialism–life satisfaction relationship

Cited by 31 publications

References 61 publications

Can I Sustain My Happiness? A Review, Critique and Research Agenda for Economics of Happiness

Can I Sustain My Happiness? A Review, Critique and Research Agenda for Economics of Happiness

Climate Change Education: A New Approach for a World of Wicked Problems

Seeking Happiness through Materialism, Gratitude and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Pakistani Employees, with the Mediatory Role of Feeling Experiences

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