• 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={J. Froh and Robert A Emmons and Noel A. Card and G. Bono and J. Wilson},
  journal={Journal of Happiness Studies},
  year={2011},
  volume={12},
  pages={289-302}
}

J. Froh, Robert A Emmons, +2 authors J. Wilson

Published 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… CONTINUE READING

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