• DOI:10.1007/S10902-010-9195-9
• Corpus ID: 12039376

Gratitude and the Reduced Costs of Materialism in Adolescents

@article{Froh2011GratitudeAT,
  title={Gratitude and the Reduced Costs of Materialism in Adolescents},
  author={Jeffrey J. Froh and Robert A Emmons and Noel A. Card and Giacomo Bono and Jennifer A. Wilson},
  journal={Journal of Happiness Studies},
  year={2011},
  volume={12},
  pages={289-302}
}

• Jeffrey J. Froh, Robert A Emmons, +2 authors Jennifer A. Wilson
• Published 1 April 2011
• Psychology
• Journal of Happiness Studies

Materialistic youth seem to be languishing while grateful youth seem to be flourishing. High school students (N = 1,035) completed measures of materialism, gratitude, academic functioning, envy, depression, life satisfaction, social integration, and absorption. Using structural equation modeling, we found that gratitude, controlling for materialism, uniquely predicts all outcomes considered: higher grade point average, life satisfaction, social integration, and absorption, as well as lower envy and depression. In contrast, materialism, controlling for gratitude, uniquely predicts three of the six outcomes: lower grade point average, as well as higher envy and life satisfaction. Furthermore, when examining the relative strengths of gratitude and materialism as predictors, we found that gratitude is generally a stronger predictor of these six outcomes than is materialism.