Money Giveth, Money Taketh Away

Quoidbach, Jordi; Dunn, Elizabeth W.; Petrides, K. V.; Mikolajczak, Moïra

doi:10.1177/0956797610371963

Cited by 104 publications

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“…Among upper-middle class children, sports as leisure and spontaneous play has largely been replaced by regimented competition as early as second grade (Luthar et al, 2013). One study found that possession of high income reduced people's ability to savor the pleasures of everyday life (Quoidbach et al, 2010). Overall, evidence points to a culture of privilege within more highly educated circles in the United States that overvalues extrinsic goals and undervalues the intrinsic, a phenomenon which current evidence suggests may not extend to China or India.…”

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Phenotypic Dimensions of Spirituality: Implications for Mental Health in China, India, and the United States

2016

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While the field of empirical study on religion and spirituality in relation to mental health has rapidly expanded over the past decade, little is known about underlying dimensions of spirituality cross-culturally conceived. We aimed to bridge this gap by inductively deriving potential universal dimensions of spirituality through a large-scale, multi-national data collection, and examining the relationships of these dimensions with common psychiatric conditions. Five-thousand five-hundred and twelve participants from China, India, and the United States completed a two-hour online survey consisting of wide-ranging measures of the lived experience of spirituality, as well as clinical assessments. A series of inductive Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and cross-validating Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (ESEM) were conducted to derive common underlying dimensions of spirituality. Logistic regression analyses were then conducted with each dimension to predict depression, suicidal ideation, generalized anxiety, and substance-related disorders. Preliminary EFA results were consistently supported by ESEM findings. Analyses of 40 spirituality measures revealed five invariant factors across countries which were interpreted as five dimensions of universal spiritual experience, specifically: love, in the fabric of relationships and as a sacred reality; unifying interconnectedness, as a sense of energetic oneness with other beings in the universe; altruism, as a commitment beyond the self with care and service; contemplative practice, such as meditation, prayer, yoga, or qigong; and religious and spiritual reflection and commitment, as a life well-examined. Love, interconnectedness, and altruism were associated with less risk of psychopathology for all countries. Religious and spiritual reflection and commitment and contemplative practice were associated with less risk in India and the United States but associated with greater risk in China. Education was directly associated with dimensions of spiritual awareness in India and China but inversely associated with dimensions in the United States. Findings support the notion that spirituality is a universal phenomenon with potentially universal dimensions. These aspects of spirituality may each offer protective effects against psychiatric symptoms and disorders and suggest new directions for treatment.

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Phenotypic Dimensions of Spirituality: Implications for Mental Health in China, India, and the United States

2016

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“…The items were gender, skin complexion, height, weight, waist size, date of birth, name, roll number in class, mobile number, and email. Following previous researchers (Vohs et al, 2008; Quoidbach et al, 2010), the background picture of the form manipulated the prime. The experimental group ( n = 42) saw a picture of Indian currency notes printed in color in the background, while the control group ( n = 41) saw a scrambled version of the same picture in the background (see Figures S1, S2 in supplementary material).…”

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Money makes you reveal more: consequences of monetary cues on preferential disclosure of personal information

2013

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With continuous growth in information aggregation and dissemination, studies on privacy preferences are important to understand what makes people reveal information about them. Previous studies have demonstrated that short-term gains and possible monetary rewards make people risk disclosing information. Given the malleability of privacy preferences and the ubiquitous monetary cues in daily lives, we measured the contextual effect of reminding people about money on their privacy disclosure preferences. In experiment 1, we found that priming money increased willingness to disclose their personal information that could be shared with an online shopping website. Beyond stated willingness, experiment 2 tested whether priming money increases propensity for actually giving out personal information. Across both experiments, we found that priming money increases both the reported willingness and the actual disclosure of personal information. Our results imply that not only do short-term rewards make people trade-off personal security and privacy, but also mere exposure to money increases self-disclosure.

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“…Tenacious commitment to high productivity leaves little time to pursue rewards such as friendships, art, and spirituality (Csikszentmihalyi, 1999; Deiner, 2000; Schor, 1999), and mental health is compromised among people strongly invested in extrinsic goals involving high status, relative to intrinsic goals such as relationships and personal growth (Kasser, 2002; Ryan et al, 1999; Sheldon & Kasser, 1995). In experimental research, Quoidba, Dunn, Petrides, and Mikolajczak (2010) demonstrated that the possession of (and even the reminder of) high income was linked with reduced abilities to savor the small pleasures in everyday life; low savoring abilities in turn were linked to lower happiness.…”

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“I can, therefore I must”: Fragility in the upper-middle classes

2013

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We review evidence on a group recently identified as “at risk,” that is, youth in upwardly mobile, upper-middle class community contexts. These youngsters are statistically more likely than normative samples to show serious disturbance across several domains including drug and alcohol use, as well as internalizing and externalizing problems. Extant data on these problems are reviewed with attention to gender-specific patterns, presenting quantitative developmental research findings along with relevant evidence across other disciplines. In considering possible reasons for elevated maladjustment, we appraise multiple pathways, including aspects of family dynamics, peer norms, pressures at schools, and policies in higher education. All of these pathways are considered within the context of broad, exosystemic mores: the pervasive emphasis, in contemporary American culture, on maximizing personal status, and how this can threaten the well-being of individuals and of communities. We then discuss issues that warrant attention in future research. The paper concludes with suggestions for interventions at multiple levels, targeting youth, parents, educators, as well as policymakers, toward reducing pressures and maximizing positive adaptation among “privileged but pressured” youth and their families.

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Money Giveth, Money Taketh Away

Cited by 104 publications

References 27 publications

Phenotypic Dimensions of Spirituality: Implications for Mental Health in China, India, and the United States

Phenotypic Dimensions of Spirituality: Implications for Mental Health in China, India, and the United States

Money makes you reveal more: consequences of monetary cues on preferential disclosure of personal information

“I can, therefore I must”: Fragility in the upper-middle classes

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