Materialism: the good, the bad, and the ugly

By L. Shrum, Tina M. Lowrey, Mario Pandelaere, A. Ruvio, Elodie Gentina, Pia Furchheim, Maud Herbert, Liselot Hudders, I. Lens, N. Mandel and 4 more. 2014

106 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract Materialism has a generally held connotation that is associated with character deficiencies, self-centeredness, and unhappiness, and most extant research views materialism as having a negative influence on well-being. In this article, we review and synthesise research that supports both positive and negative outcomes of behaviours associated with materialism. We conceptualise materialism in terms of the motives underlying materialistic behaviour, and situate our review and synthesis of materialism research within this context. In doing so, we document the utility of a motives-based view of materialism and propose research agendas that arise from this motives-based perspective.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Marketing

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/1e8a11c82727c80daac483059a303aa486112899

Citations in the corpus

• Advancing sustainable consumption in the UK and China: the mediating effect of pro-environmental self-identity (2015, unknown): “As Shrum et al. (2014) and Griskevicius, Tybur and Van den Bergh (2010) suggest, this positive relationship represents identity status signals to others and self, especially when sustainable products are more costly and publicly consumed.”
• A Review of Sustainable Consumption (2000 to 2020): What We Know and What We Need to Know (2020, unknown): “This is because the devotion to the pursuit of excessive wealth may lower well-being and ruin people ’ s standards of morality (Ghazanfar & Islahi, 1998; Shrum et al., 2014).”