This piece written by Tim Kasser is meant to assess people on their personal values. Kasser summarized his results from his studies by concluding that people who value wealth and are materialistic are generally reported to have a lower state of well-being than those who have different values. Just as the famous saying states, “money can’t buy you happiness.” Table 1 was used to evaluate materialistic value by measuring how important financial success, self-acceptance, affiliation, and community feeling are to the survey participants. If a person is always concerned with what materialistic items they possess, they are not able to enjoy the intangible things in life; such as family, friends, and their community. Results show people who are more materialistic have lower levels of vitality and higher levels of depression and anxiety. Assessing not only college students, but also a wide range of 18 year olds with diverse life situations, further proves that materialism is unhealthy. It was interesting to learn the results of how having certain values can affect your state of well-being. However for the most part I found this piece of writing to be pretty boring to read. I felt Tim Kasser sort of elongated his findings from his Aspiration Index and came off as repetitive at times.
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