Happiness lies not in chasing big posessions but in appreciating the little things : a cross-cultural review of the relationship between gratitude, materialism, and subjective well-being

• Main Authors: Wong, Marcus Glenn, Tang, Nicole Rui Qi
• Other Authors: Tan Chin Hong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156444
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A large part of the positive psychology literature highlights that materialism has negative effects on subjective well-being. Gratitude, often cited as an antecedent to materialism, has been shown to be beneficial for our subjective well-being and buffers against the negative effects of materialism....