Materialistic cues make us miserable: A meta‐analysis of the experimental evidence for the effects of materialism on individual and societal well‐being

Moldes, Olaya; Ku, Lisbeth

doi:10.1002/mar.21387

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“…First, leaders and organizations should develop formal policies to encourage the pursuit of intrinsic values (e.g., corporate altruism and self-development). Second, it has been shown that exposing workers to materialistic messages could increase the pursuit of extrinsic values, which in turn may increase workplace materialism [ 99 , 101 ]. Further, whereas the importance attached to pay systems, bonus and performance ratings should be reduced, the importance attached to employee´s intrinsic motivation, well-being and mental health should be increased by leaders and organizations [ 99 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Gratitude at Work Prospectively Predicts Lower Workplace Materialism: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in Chile

Unanue

Oriol

Oyanedel

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Materialism at work refers to a higher importance attached to extrinsic (e.g., money, fame, image) versus intrinsic (self-development, affiliation, community participation) employees’ ‘aspirations’. Research from self-determination theory has consistently found that materialism at work is strongly detrimental for both employees and organizations. For example, materialism is negatively associated with lower job satisfaction and engagement and positively associated with higher turnover intentions and job insecurity. Unfortunately, there are no viable strategies for reducing materialism in the workplace yet. In this sense, based on emergent research in psychology, we theorized that dispositional gratitude—a key construct within the Positive Organizational Psychology field—could be a protecting factor against materialism. Further, we conducted a three-wave longitudinal design among a large sample of Chilean workers (n = 1841) to test, for the first time, the longitudinal link between gratitude and materialism. We used two novel methodologies: A cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) to test between-person changes and a trait-state-occasion model (TSO) to test within-person changes. We found that both the CLPM as well as the TSO models showed that gratitude at work prospectively predicted further lower workplace materialism. Specifically, the CLPM shows that individuals with higher than average gratitude at Ti, are more likely to show lower than average materialism at Ti+1. The TSO shows that individuals with a higher than their usual level of gratitude at Ti are more likely to show a lower than their usual level of materialism at Ti+1. Important implications for materialism research as well as for the Positive Organizational Psychology field are discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gratitude at Work Prospectively Predicts Lower Workplace Materialism: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in Chile

Unanue

Oriol

Oyanedel

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…Statistics, such as I 2 and the Q statistic of the test of homogeneity, are used to gauge which method is more appropriate to generate the combined effect size (Schmidt and Hunter 2014). However, some adjustments are necessary for investigating the presence of publication bias (see Moldes and Ku 2020). Two sources of publication bias exist.…”

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Competitors or Complements: A Meta-analysis of the Effect of Airbnb on Hotel Performance

Yang

Nieto-Garcia

Viglia

et al. 2021

Journal of Travel Research

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The rise of peer-to-peer accommodation has challenged the traditional hotel business model. A lingering question is the effect of Airbnb supply on hotel performance. By analyzing 466 estimates from 33 different studies, our results reveal that the negative effect of Airbnb supply on hotel performance is moderate. The meta-regression of effect size recognizes the significant effects of different factors on the strength of the negative effect. In particular, the negative effect is smaller for high-end (vs. low-end) hotels, and its magnitude is shrinking over time. Additionally, the detrimental effect is less pronounced for European (vs. Asian) hotels. The study also reports that negative effects are more common in research published in academic journals. The synthesis of the effects across existing studies contributes to a robust and comprehensive understanding of the impact of Airbnb supply on hotel performance.

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“…As is the case with social input, many studies have explored the consequences of individual differences in material input for well-being (e.g., Burroughs & Rindfleisch, 2002;Dittmar, Bond, Hurst, & Kasser, 2014;Moldes & Ku, 2020;Unanue, Dittmar, Vignoles, & Vansteenkiste, 2014;Wang, Liu, Jiang, & Song, 2017). However, research that assessed how these individual differences shape people's experiences during long-and short-term input deprivation is extremely rare.…”

Section: Consequences Of Materials Input During Long-and Short-term Inmentioning

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To Sit Quietly in a Room Alone: The Psychology of Social, Material, and Sensation Seeking Input

Krpan¹

2021

Preprint

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External input is any kind of physical stimulation created by an individual’s surroundings that can be detected by the senses. The present research established a novel conceptualization of this construct by investigating it from the perspective of three research areas that tap into its different aspects but have so far been disconnected—materialism, social motives, and sensation seeking. Studies 1-5 focused on individual differences regarding external input (i.e., the needs for material, social, and sensation seeking input). It was established that the three needs are positively related and constitute different dimensions of the overarching construct of external input, that the needs for social and sensation seeking input have negative consequences for how people experience long-term input deprivation (i.e., COVID-19 restrictions), and that the need for material input has negative consequences for people’s experiences of short-term input deprivation (i.e., sitting in a chair without doing anything else but thinking). Finally, Study 6 focused on external input as a situational characteristic and showed that the degree of sensation seeking input constituting various situations is a more important predictor, relative to social and material input, of how enjoyable and meaningful people perceive the situations and of their willingness to engage in them. Overall, the present research established a novel construct that has fundamental implications for people’s experiences and actions in a range of different contexts.

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Materialistic cues make us miserable: A meta‐analysis of the experimental evidence for the effects of materialism on individual and societal well‐being

Cited by 69 publications

References 98 publications

Gratitude at Work Prospectively Predicts Lower Workplace Materialism: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in Chile

Gratitude at Work Prospectively Predicts Lower Workplace Materialism: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in Chile

Competitors or Complements: A Meta-analysis of the Effect of Airbnb on Hotel Performance

To Sit Quietly in a Room Alone: The Psychology of Social, Material, and Sensation Seeking Input

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