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About: Knox College is a education organization based out in Galesburg, Illinois, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Endoplasmic reticulum & Cryptography. The organization has 490 authors who have published 817 publications receiving 26472 citations. The organization is also known as: Knox Manual Labor College.
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01 Jan 2002TL;DR: In The High Price of Materialism as mentioned in this paper, Kasser investigated how people's materialistic desires relate to their well-being and found that people whose values center on the accumulation of wealth or material possessions face a greater risk of depression, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and problems with intimacy.
Abstract: In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and clothing, further material gains do little to improve our well-being. Kasser goes beyond these findings to investigate how people's materialistic desires relate to their well-being. He shows that people whose values center on the accumulation of wealth or material possessions face a greater risk of unhappiness, including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and problems with intimacy -- regardless of age, income, or culture. Drawing on a decade's worth of empirical data, Kasser examines what happens when we organize our lives around materialistic pursuits. He looks at the effects on our internal experience and interpersonal relationships, as well as on our communities and the world at large. He shows that materialistic values actually undermine our well-being, as they perpetuate feelings of insecurity, weaken the ties that bind us, and make us feel less free. Kasser not only defines the problem but proposes ways we can change ourselves, our families, and society to become less materialistic.
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TL;DR: The Big Five Inventory (BFI) is a self-report measure designed to assess the high-order personality traits of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The Big Five Inventory (BFI) is a self-report measure designed to assess the high-order personality traits of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, the BFI was translated from English into 28 languages and administered to 17,837 individuals from 56 nations. The resulting cross-cultural data set was used to address three main questions: Does the factor structure of the English BFI fully replicate across cultures? How valid are the BFI trait profiles of individual nations? And how are personality traits distributed throughout the world? The five-dimensional structure was robust across major regions of the world. Trait levels were related in predictable ways to self-esteem, sociosexuality, and national personality profiles. People from the geographic regions of South America and East Asia were significantly different in openness from those inhabiting other world regions. The discussion focuses on limitations of t...
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TL;DR: Three studies examined this issue directly, showing that both what goals people pursue and why people pursue make significant independent contributions to psychological well-being.
Abstract: The assertion that both the content of goals and the motives behind goals affect psychological well-being has been controversial. Three studies examined this issue directly, showing that both what goals people pursue (i.e., whether they strive for extrinsic vs. intrinsic goal contents) and why people pursue them (i.e., whether they strive for autonomous vs. controlled motives) make significant independent contributions to psychological well-being. The pattern emerged in between-person and within-person studies of cross-sectional well-being and also emerged in a year-long study of prospective change in well-being. Implications for prescriptive theories of happiness are discussed.
802 citations
TL;DR: For instance, this article found that participants with stronger social and self-regulatory skills made more progress in their goals over the course of a semester, and that goal progress predicted increases in psychological well-being, both in short-term (5-day) increments and across the whole semester.
Abstract: Although goal theorists have speculated about the causes and consequences of making progress at personal goals, little longitudinal research has examined these issues. In the current prospective study, participants with stronger social and self-regulatory skills made more progress in their goals over the course of a semester. In turn, goal progress predicted increases in psychological well-being, both in short-term (5-day) increments and across the whole semester; At both short- and long-term levels of analysis, however, the amount that well-being increased depended on the "organismic congruence" of participants' goals. That is, participants benefited most from goal attainment when the goals that they pursued were consistent with inherent psychological needs. We conclude that a fuller understanding of the relations between goals, performance, and psychological well-being requires recourse to both cybernetic and organismic theories of motivation.
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TL;DR: The authors investigated the structure of goal contents in a group of 1,854 undergraduates from 15 cultures around the world and suggested that the 11 types of goals the authors assessed were consistently organized in a circumplex fashion.
Abstract: The authors investigated the structure of goal contents in a group of 1,854 undergraduates from 15 cultures around the world. Results suggested that the 11 types of goals the authors assessed were consistently organized in a circumplex fashion across the 15 cultures. The circumplex was well described by positioning 2 primary dimensions underlying the goals: intrinsic (e.g., self-acceptance, affiliation) versus extrinsic (e.g., financial success, image) and self-transcendent (e.g., spirituality) versus physical (e.g., hedonism). The circumplex model of goal contents was also quite similar in both wealthier and poorer nations, although there were some slight cross-cultural variations. The relevance of these results for several theories of motivation and personality are discussed.
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| James P. Allison | 137 | 483 | 83336 |
| Tim Kasser | 53 | 103 | 20434 |
| Allan L. Goldstein | 52 | 276 | 9053 |
| Peter G. Debrunner | 33 | 77 | 3619 |
| Charles E. Schulz | 30 | 75 | 2284 |
| Gabrielle G. Long | 29 | 105 | 2982 |
| James Michael Lampinen | 26 | 91 | 2002 |
| Abdul Q. M. Khaliq | 24 | 74 | 1450 |
| Paul W. B. Atkins | 23 | 41 | 3141 |
| Deborah R. Hart | 23 | 51 | 2040 |
| Francis T. McAndrew | 22 | 54 | 1778 |
| Pete R. Jemian | 22 | 57 | 3007 |
| Roger Daniels | 21 | 72 | 2366 |
| Billy W. Geer | 21 | 43 | 1192 |
| Jaime Spacco | 20 | 45 | 1522 |