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| Published: August 15, 2017
Being Materialistic Makes You Happy or Not: A Probe
Assistant Professor, Goswami Ganesh Dutta Sanatan Dharma College, Sector 32, Chandigarh, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.041/20170404
DOI: 10.25215/0404.041
ABSTRACT
Does money bring happiness? This study was undertaken to understand and analyze the relationship between materialism and happiness. The sample consists of on young male and female students in the age group of 18-21years belonging to service class family and living in the tri-city of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali. For the purpose of study respondents were selected randomly who were administered the structured questionnaire to measure happiness and materialism using Oxford Happiness questionnaire, Richards and Dawson Materialism Scale. Descriptive analysis, correlations, and t-ratios was applied to the data. Results revealed non- significant relationship between materialism and happiness. Gender difference was also studied.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2017 Aggarwal S
Received: April 27, 2017; Revision Received: June 28, 2017; Accepted: August 15, 2017
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.041/20170404
10.25215/0404.041
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Published in Volume 04, Issue 4, July-September, 2017