Gratitude and the Reduced Costs of Materialism in Adolescents |
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Authors: | Jeffrey J. Froh Robert A. Emmons Noel A. Card Giacomo Bono Jennifer A. Wilson |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Psychology, Hofstra University, 210 Hauser Hall, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA;(2) University of California, Davis, CA, USA;(3) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA;(4) Whittier College, Whittier, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | Materialistic youth seem to be languishing while grateful youth seem to be flourishing. High school students (N = 1,035) completed measures of materialism, gratitude, academic functioning, envy, depression, life satisfaction, social integration, and absorption. Using structural equation modeling, we found that gratitude, controlling for materialism, uniquely predicts all outcomes considered: higher grade point average, life satisfaction, social integration, and absorption, as well as lower envy and depression. In contrast, materialism, controlling for gratitude, uniquely predicts three of the six outcomes: lower grade point average, as well as higher envy and life satisfaction. Furthermore, when examining the relative strengths of gratitude and materialism as predictors, we found that gratitude is generally a stronger predictor of these six outcomes than is materialism. |
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