Why are materialists less happy? The role of gratitude and need satisfaction in the relationship between materialism and life satisfaction

Gratitude and Athletes’ Life Satisfaction: The Moderating Role of Mindfulness

“…The current findings regarding the relationship between gratitude and life satisfaction corresponded to those of previous studies that have been conducted across life domains (Froh, Bono, & Emmons, 2010;Froh, Emmons, Card, Bono, & Wilson, 2011;Tsang et al, 2014), including sport and have suggested that gratitude is a critical factor that associated with athletes' life satisfaction (Chen & Kee, 2008;Chen, Kee, & Chen, 2015). In other words, the current results are consistent with the notion based on broaden-and-build theory (Fredrickson, 1998(Fredrickson, , 2001) that grateful athletes broaden their attention to see the little things as gifts, which in turn triggers prosocial behavior that accumulates cognitive and interpersonal resources to achieve life goals.…”

“…More importantly, gratitude has consistently been linked to well-being indicators that contribute to people's success (Lyubomirsky, King, & Diener, 2005), such as life satisfaction (e.g., Chan, 2012;Tsang et al, 2014;Wood et al, 2008), which refers to a conscious cognitive judgment of life as a whole, in which individuals compare their life circumstances with a self-imposed standard (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985). The positive association between gratitude and life satisfaction may result from a broaden-and-build mechanism (Fredrickson, 1998(Fredrickson, , 2001) that is elicited by gratitude; i.e., gratitude may broaden an individual's awareness of positivity and trigger actions that aid the accumulation of additional resources for achieving life goals (Fredrickson, 2004).…”

Psikologi Anti-Materialisme

“…Materialisme yang tinggi adalah sebab bagi berbagai persoalan psikologi, sosial, ekonomi, dan pendidikan, seperti: rendahnya well-being, ketidakbahagiaan dan ketidakpuasan hidup, dan tingginya stres dan depresi (Brouskeli & Loumakou, 2014;Dittmar & Kapur, 2011;Garðarsdóttir, Janković & Dittmar, 2008;Karabati & Cemalcilar, 2010;Konow & Earley, 2008;Tatzel, 2002;Tsang, Carpenter, Roberts, Frisch, & Carlisle, 2014); perilaku mengkonsumsi yang bermasalah, seperti compulsive dan excessive buying (Dittmar, 2005;Müller, et al, in press, 2011;Pham, Yap, & Dowling, 2011); sikap dan perilaku tidak prolingkungan (Hurst, Dittmar, Bond, & Kasser, 2013;Kilbourne & Picket, 2008); sikap negatif terhadap pernikahan dan memiliki anak (Li, Patel, Balliet, Tov, Scollon 2010); ketidaksukaan menabung dan sekolah pada anak, rendahnya motivasi belajar intrinsik, meningkatnya motivasi belajar ekstrinsik, dan rendahnya performa akademik (Goldberg Gorn, Peracchio, & Bamosy, 2003;Ku, Dittmar, & Banerjee, 2014).…”

The Experimental Research on the Influence of Materialism and the Emotion of Awe on Life Satisfaction and Products Preference

“…Before purchasing, the materialists have a higher level of expectation to get the anticipatory positive emotion than the non-materialists [22]. However, such kind of the positive emotion is not real or is not expected to continuous that once if the material type of merchandise cannot get to meet those people's expectations or maintain their anticipatory positive emotion, they will reduce their actual positive emotions to produce dissatisfaction [23].…”