A multiple mediation model testing whether the relationship between materialism and life satisfaction is explained by gratitude and spiritual jihad.
People with elevated materialistic values often report reduced life satisfaction. To understand this, our study investigated if gratitude and the spiritual jihad mindset, denoting the aspiration to bond with God through spiritual challenges, mediate this relationship. We surveyed 404 Muslim young ad...
| Publicado en: | Mental Health, Religion & Culture Vol. 26; no. 7; pp. 663 - 676 |
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