The role of entitlement and perceived resources in gratitude’s effect on materialism: Longitudinal and situational effects

Lee, Hyunjung Crystal; Chugani, Sunaina; Namkoong, Jae-Eun

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.10.029

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“…In addition, given that psychologically entitled adolescents usually consider themselves to have more privilege than other people (Campbell et al, 2004), it is likely that this sense of privilege blinds adolescents so that they see the world only in terms of their hedonic or instrumental goals and realise the goals by pursuing material goods. Moreover, there is empirical evidence in previous literature supporting the given relationship (Lee et al, 2022;Opree and Ku ¨hne, 2016).…”

Section: Psychological Entitlement As a Mediatormentioning

confidence: 85%

Greed doesn’t grow on trees: the indirect association between proenvironmental behaviour and materialism through adolescents’ psychological entitlement

Liu

Koivula

2022

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Purpose This study aims to explore the potential that acting proenvironmentally protects adolescents from developing materialistic value. Design/methodology/approach Convenience sampling was adopted to collect data from two randomly selected secondary schools in central China. A total of 784 participants were included in the survey. Findings The mediation analysis revealed that adolescent proenvironmental behaviour was negatively associated with materialism. The results of the moderated mediation model showed that psychological entitlement mediates the association between adolescent proenvironmental behaviour and materialism, and that family socioeconomic status acts as a moderator in the association between proenvironmental behaviour and psychological entitlement. Practical implications The current results advise educational practitioners on alleviating adolescent materialism. Policy makers and schools can add more environmental practice to the curriculum and extracurricular activities. Moreover, identifying the personal benefits of proenvironmental behaviour can motivate young people to act proenvironmentally, which not only factually reduces over-consumption but also attracts more attention from young people to the environment. Originality/value Previous studies rarely explored the individual belief or perception accounting for the negative association between proenvironmental behaviour and materialism. Therefore, the authors adopt psychological entitlement, a belief reflecting the dark side of individual perception, to explain why proenvironmental behaviour reduces materialism.

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Section: Psychological Entitlement As a Mediatormentioning

confidence: 85%

Greed doesn’t grow on trees: the indirect association between proenvironmental behaviour and materialism through adolescents’ psychological entitlement

Liu

Koivula

2022

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“…Gratitude helps consumers enjoy more meaningful experiences and better marketplace relationships. For example, four longitudinal studies by Lee et al (2022) illustrated that gratitude reduces materialistic values and promotes experiential consumption. In another study, consumers' reactions to corporate social responsibilities were mediated by gratitude, which affected their intentions to say positive things about the company and participate in advocacy actions benefiting the company (Romani et al, 2013).…”

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An expanded mindful mindset: The role of different skills in stress reduction and life satisfaction

Bahl

Milne

Swani

2023

Journal of Consumer Affairs

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Mindsets brought to the marketplace by consumers determine the decisions they make and, ultimately, their well-being. Mindsets based on a comprehensive set of mindfulness skills can provide a broader lens to understanding life's varied situations to make better choices. Considering research on mindfulness and Buddhist psychology, this study introduced an expanded mindful mindset comprising nine mindfulness skills: awareness, compassion for others, self-compassion, curiosity, energy, gratitude, inner calm, focus, and discernment. A national online survey, along with structural equation modeling, was conducted to examine differences in the narrower and expanded mindful mindsets and the relative contribution of the nine mindfulness skills to address stress and life satisfaction.The study found that a different set of mindfulness skills was required for life satisfaction and stress-reduction. Energy had the greatest impact on life satisfaction, and self-compassion had the greatest impact on stress reduction. Finally, the implications of an expanded mindful mindset were discussed.

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“…Interventions to target and reduce entitlement would be beneficial at the individual level (i.e., a way to mitigate distress intolerance) and may also help foster support for altruistic systems-level collective change (i.e., universal health care, universal basic income). Prior research has suggested that gratitude practices may be helpful at reducing entitlement (Lee et al, 2022). More generally, mindfulness-based cognitive approaches aimed at minimizing black and white thinking and other myths of scarcity could also be useful interventions.…”

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Privilege and distress intolerance at the margins: Exploring the role of critical consciousness and entitlement.

Brewster,

Velez,

Motulsky

et al. 2024

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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With a U.S.-based sample of 219 people of color with diverse sexual orientations, the present study aimed to reveal how perceived privilege may be associated with distress intolerance, and the mediating roles of critical consciousness and entitlement. Data were also used to explore the interaction of sexual orientation status (heterosexual or sexual minority) with these paths. Via path analysis, we found that privilege was unrelated to critical consciousness, yielded a positive direct link to entitlement, and had a negative direct link to distress intolerance. Tests of indirect relations showed that privilege had a significant indirect relation to distress intolerance via entitlement but not critical consciousness. Regarding moderation analyses, the Privilege × Sexual Minority Status interaction predicting entitlement, privilege was significantly positively associated with entitlement among both heterosexual and sexual minority participants, but the association was significantly stronger for heterosexual participants. For the Critical Consciousness × Sexual Minority Status interaction predicting distress intolerance, the association of critical consciousness with distress intolerance was nonsignificant for both heterosexual and sexual minority participants, but the association changed direction and was significantly stronger for sexual minority participants. Indirect relations did not differ for sexual minority or heterosexual participants. Implications for future research and intervention are addressed.

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The role of entitlement and perceived resources in gratitude’s effect on materialism: Longitudinal and situational effects

Cited by 12 publications

References 51 publications

Greed doesn’t grow on trees: the indirect association between proenvironmental behaviour and materialism through adolescents’ psychological entitlement

Greed doesn’t grow on trees: the indirect association between proenvironmental behaviour and materialism through adolescents’ psychological entitlement

An expanded mindful mindset: The role of different skills in stress reduction and life satisfaction

Privilege and distress intolerance at the margins: Exploring the role of critical consciousness and entitlement.

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