Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-xm8r8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-14T15:57:36.167Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

8 - The Development of Gratitude and Its Relation to Spending Preferences and Materialism

from Part II - Gratitude, Developing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2017

By
Lisa Kiang ,
Elisa A. Merçon-Vargas ,
Sara Etz Mendonça ,
Ayse Payir  and
Lia O'Brien
Edited by
Jonathan R. H. Tudge  and
Lia Beatriz de Lucca Freitas
Jonathan R. H. Tudge
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Lia Beatriz de Lucca Freitas
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Get access
Type
Chapter
Information
Developing Gratitude in Children and Adolescents , pp. 154 - 174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Aknin, L. B., Dunn, E. W., & Norton, M. I. (2012). Happiness runs in a circular motion: Evidence for a positive feedback loop between prosocial spending and happiness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 13, 347–355.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baumgarten-Tramer, F. (1938). “Gratefulness” in children and young people. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 53, 53–66.Google Scholar
Bilsky, W., & Schwartz, S. H. (1994). Values and personality. European Journal of Personality, 8, 163–181.Google Scholar
Calvert, S. L. (2008). Children as consumers: Advertising and marketing. Future of Children, 18, 205–234.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Carlo, G., Hausman, A., Christiansen, S., & Randall, B. A. (2003). Sociocognitive and behavioral correlates of a measure of prosocial tendencies for adolescents. Journal of Early Adolescence, 18, 266–290.Google Scholar
Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (Eds.). (2002). Handbook of self-determination research. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.Google Scholar
Dittmar, H., Bond, R., Hurst, M., & Kasser, T. (2014). The relationship between materialism and personal well-being: A meta-analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 879–924.Google Scholar
Dunn, E. W., Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2011). If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21(2), 115–125.Google Scholar
Eisenberg, N., Cumberland, A., Guthrie, I. K., Murphy, B. C., & Shepard, S. A. (2005). Age changes in prosocial responding and moral reasoning in adolescence and early adulthood. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 15, 235–260.Google Scholar
Fagley, N. S. (2016). The construct of appreciation: It is so much more than gratitude. In Carr, D. (Ed.), Perspectives on gratitude: An interdisciplinary approach (pp. 70–84). New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Freitas, L. B. L., Pieta, M. A. M., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2011). Beyond politeness: The expression of gratitude in children and adolescents. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 24, 757–764.Google Scholar
Freitas, L. B. L., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2010). Gratitude assessment questionnaire. Unpublished scale.Google Scholar
Freitas, L. B. L., Tudge, J. R. H., & McConnell, T. (2008). The Wishes and Gratitude Survey. Unpublished scale.Google Scholar
Freitas, L. B. D. L., Tudge, J. R. H., Palhares, F., & Prestes, A. C. (2016). Relações entre desenvolvimento da gratidão e tipos de valores em jovens [The relations between the development of gratitude and types of values in youth]. Psico-USF, 21(1), 13–24.Google Scholar
Froh, J. J., Emmons, R. A., Card, N. A., Bono, G., & Wilson, J. A. (2011). Gratitude and the reduced costs of materialism in adolescents. Journal of Happiness Studies, 12, 289–302.Google Scholar
Harter, S. (1999). The construction of the self. New York: Guilford.Google Scholar
Inhelder, B., & Piaget, J. (1958). The growth of logical thinking from childhood to adolescence. New York: Basic Books.Google Scholar
Jaffe, S. & Hyde, J. S. (2000). Gender differences in moral orientation: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 126(5), 703–726.Google Scholar
Kashdan, T. B., Mishra, A., Breen, W. E., & Froh, J. J. (2009). Gender differences in gratitude: Examining appraisals, narratives, the willingness to express emotions, and changes in psychological needs. Journal of Personality, 77(3), 691–730.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kasser, T. (2002). The high price of materialism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
Kasser, T. (2005). Frugality, generosity, and materialism in children and adolescents. In Moore, K. A., & Lippman, L. H. (Eds.), What do children need to flourish? (pp. 357–373). New York: Springer.Google Scholar
Kasser, T. (2016). Materialistic values and goals. Annual Review of Psychology, 67, 489–514.Google Scholar
Kasser, T., Ryan, R. M., Zax, M., & Sameroff, A. J. (1995). The relations of maternal and social environments to late adolescents' materialistic and prosocial values. Developmental Psychology, 31(6), 907–914.Google Scholar
Kiang, L., Mendonça, S., Liang, Y., Payir, A., O'Brien, L., Tudge, J. R., & Freitas, L. (2016). If children won lotteries: Materialism, gratitude and imaginary windfall spending. Young Consumers, 17(4), 404–418.Google Scholar
Lyubomirsky, S., Sheldon, K. M., & Schkade, D. (2005). Pursuing happiness: The architecture of sustainable change. Review of General Psychology, 9(2), 111–131.Google Scholar
McClelland, D. C. (1985). How motives, skills, and values determine what people do. American Psychologist, 40(7), 812–825.Google Scholar
McCullough, M. E., Emmons, R. A., & Tsang, J. (2002). The grateful disposition: A conceptual and empirical topography. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 112–127.Google Scholar
Mischel, W. (1990). Personality dispositions revisited and revised: A view after three decades. In Pervin, L. A. (Ed.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (pp. 111–134). New York: Guilford.Google Scholar
Piaget, J. (1965). Sociological studies. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Piaget, J. (1968). Six psychological studies. New York: Crown Publishing.Google Scholar
Piaget, J. (1972). Intellectual evolution from adolescence to adulthood. Human Development, 15, 1–12.Google Scholar
Polak, E. L., & McCullough, M. E. (2006). Is gratitude an alternative to materialism? Journal of Happiness Studies, 7(3), 343–360.Google Scholar
Roberts, J. A., Tsang, J. A., & Manolis, C. (2015). Looking for happiness in all the wrong places: The moderating role of gratitude and affect in the materialism–life satisfaction relationship. Journal of Positive Psychology, 10(6), 489–498.Google Scholar
Schwartz, S. H. (1992). Universals in the content and structure of values: Theoretical advances and empirical tests in 20 countries. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 25, 1–65.Google Scholar
Schwartz, S. H. (2012). An overview of the Schwartz Theory of Basic Values. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 2(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.9707/2307-0919.1116.Google Scholar
Sheldon, K. M., & Kasser, T. (2008). Psychological threat and extrinsic goal striving. Motivation and Emotion, 32(1), 37–45.Google Scholar
Sirgy, M. J. (1998). Materialism and quality of life. Social Indicators Research, 43(3), 227–260.Google Scholar
Tobin, R. M., & Graziano, W. G. (2010). Delay of gratification. In Hoyle, R. (Ed.), Handbook of personality and self-regulation (pp. 47–63). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tudge, J. R. H., & Freitas, L. B. L. (2011). Children's materialism questionnaire. Unpublished scale.Google Scholar
Tudge, J. R. H., Freitas, L. B. L., Mokrova, I. L., Wang, Y. C., & O'Brien, M. (2015). The expression of gratitude and materialism in youth. Paidéia, 25(62), 281–288.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tudge, J. R. H., Freitas, L. B. L., & O'Brien, L. T. (2015). The virtue of gratitude: A developmental and cultural approach. Human Development, 58(4), 281–300.Google Scholar
Wang, D., Wang, Y. C., & Tudge, J. R. (2015). Expressions of gratitude in children and adolescents: Insights from China and the United States. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46, 1039–1058.Google Scholar
Watkins, P. C., Woodward, K., Stone, T., & Kolts, R.L. (2003). Gratitude and happiness: Development of a measure of gratitude, and relationships with subjective well-being. Social Behavior and Personality, 31, 431–452.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×