materialistic values and well-being among business students：商业学生的物质价值观与幸福感.pdf

Materialistic Values and Well-Being Among Business Students: Further Evidence of Their Detrimental Effect1 MAARTEN VANSTEENKISTE2, BART DURIEZ, JOKE SIMONS, AND BART SOENENS University of Leuven Leuven, Belgium According to an environmental-match perspective regarding the content of values (Sagiv Schwartz, 2000), extrinsic or materialistic values should positively predict well-being in populations in which extrinsic values match the environmen- tally promoted values (e.g., among business students). However, other value researchers (Kasser Ahuvia, 2002) disagree with these claims. Although the present study shows that business students ascribe higher importance to extrinsic values than do education students, the negative relation of extrinsic values with well-being and the positive relation with internal distress and substance use was not moderated by the department to which students belonged. Finally, mediational analyses revealed that value orientations could account for the fact that business students report lower well-being and higher substance use in comparison to education students. Currently, there is a controversy concerning the type of associations that should exist between value orientations and well-being. Drawing on hu- manistic (Fromm, 1976; Maslow, 1954) and organismic (Deci Ryan, 2000; Ryan Deci, 2000) theorizing, some authors (Kasser, 2002; Kasser Ahuvia, 2002) have argued that being focused on extrinsic or materialistic values, such as financial success, fame, and physical appearance, rather than on intrinsic values, such as growth, community contribution, and affiliation, is detrimental for people’s w