Self-Conscious Emotions and Materialism

Watson, David

doi:10.1177/0276236615587492

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“…Males had higher scores on materialistic happiness. Findings of gender differences with centrality and materialistic happiness are mixed, however, higher female possessiveness is consistent with previous findings (e.g., Watson, 2015 , 2016 ). A higher level in females and may reflect higher sentimental attachment to objects that are associated with relatives or friends ( Dittmar, 1989 ).…”

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Self-compassion, the ‘quiet ego’ and materialism

Watson

2018

Heliyon

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The research is an investigation of self-compassion and materialism. Self-compassion is when an individual has a caring, non-judgmental view of the self. This quality has been related to lower depression, less negative emotion and higher psychological health (Neff, 2003). Materialism has been consistently associated with low subjective well-being and unhappiness. A related concept is that of the ‘quiet ego’, which is a less competitive, less self-centered individual with more concern with connecting with others and with personal growth (Wayment et al., 2015). Therefore, it is hypothesized that highly materialistic individuals will be lower in self-compassion and have a fear of compassion from others and towards others and that self-compassion and fears of compassion will mediate the relationship between materialism and low subjective well-being. As materialistic individuals are more likely to be competitive and individualistic, it is hypothesized that the ‘quiet ego’ will be negatively related to materialism. These hypotheses were investigated using a set of questionnaires with 423 undergraduate participants. The results indicated a relationship between materialism and fear of compassion for others and of responding to the compassion of others. Materialism was also negatively related to the ‘quiet ego’ and related constructs such as: mindfulness, satisfaction with life and generativity. Self-compassion, fears of compassion and the quiet-ego were also found to mediate the relationship between materialism and measures of well-being. The results are consistent with several theoretical explanations for the development of materialism. It is possible that increasing self-compassion, reducing fears of compassion and ‘ego-quieting’ procedures could be developed as methods of reducing materialistic tendencies.

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Self-compassion, the ‘quiet ego’ and materialism

Watson

2018

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“…The former is conceptualized as a positive emotion linked to self‐esteem that results from specific achievements or prosocial behaviors that people credit to their self as the cause of the event and that reflect genuine feelings of self‐worth. The latter is a “distorted, self‐aggrandized sense of self” (Watson, , p. 192). Materialism is related positively to both hubristic pride and narcissism, an inflated sense of self, implying that these two constructs might be related to status consumption and ultimately to consumer behavior.…”

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Materialism, Status Consumption, and Market Involved Consumers

Flynn

Goldsmith

Pollitte

2016

Psychology and Marketing

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Materialism has by all accounts an important impact on many aspects of consumer behavior. The psychological mechanisms through which materialism influences behavior, however, are not well studied. This paper describes a study of the influence of materialism on shopping intensity and amount of spending that takes into account the mediating influences of three important consumer characteristics: status consumption, brand engagement in self-concept, and market mavenism. The researchers fit a model of these relationships based on the Meta-theoretic Model of Motivation (3M) model to data from a sample of 351 adult U.S. consumers. The model fit the data well, and the results showed that indeed, status consumption, brand engagement, and market mavenism mediate at least partially the influence of materialism on shopping and spending.

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“…There are number of reasons why materialism may be related to a past temporal focus. Research by Watson (2015) has found that materialism is related to maximization and regret. Maximization is the desire to have the most choices available opposed to satisfying, which is the wanting to have the good-enough choice (Schwartz et al., 2002).…”

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Materialism, Temporal Orientation, and Well-Being

Watson

2017

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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The research is an exploration of temporal orientation (past, present, and future) and materialism. Temporal orientation has been related to negative outcomes in the case of past orientation and both positive and negative outcomes with the present or future temporal focus. Given the well-established relationship between low-subjective well-being and materialism, it is hypothesized that materialism will be associated with past-and present-fatalistic temporal focus. Two studies were conducted using self-report with samples of 406 and 409 university students using measures of materialism, temporal orientation, and subjective well-being. The results indicated that materialism was correlated with past temporal orientation. Past-negative, rather than past-positive experiences were associated with materialism. Focus on present fatalism was also related to materialism. Past-negative and past temporal orientation was found to mediate the relationship between subjective well-being and materialism.

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Self-Conscious Emotions and Materialism

Cited by 6 publications

References 36 publications

Self-compassion, the ‘quiet ego’ and materialism

Self-compassion, the ‘quiet ego’ and materialism

Materialism, Status Consumption, and Market Involved Consumers

Materialism, Temporal Orientation, and Well-Being

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