An investigation has concluded that the most materialistic people, that is, more concerned with buying the latest mobile model fresh from the factory, a high-end car, a bigger house, branded clothing … always be up-to-date, Ultimately, they are destined to have a continuous state of dissatisfaction in their life .
The study, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences , has been developed by a team of scientists from Baylor University (USA) that had a total of 246 participants with an average age of 21 years and who underwent a 15-minute online survey aimed at measuring the level of materialism, gratitude, satisfaction of needs and general satisfaction in life.
The results revealed that those who scored low in gratitude and high in meeting their own needs were more likely to be materialistic and to feel less happy with their life .
Why this correlation? This happens because it is more difficult for materialistic people to be happy with what they have, they always need more because they focus their lives on what they do not have , so they become dissatisfied people and prone to depression. On the contrary, gratitude forms a positive state of mind in which the important thing is the people around us rather than ourselves and our possessions.
