Insatiable Desires - Further tests of the scarcity and luxury hypotheses in dispositional greed – Chapter 2

This dataset accompanies the article: Hoyer, K., Zeelenberg, M., & Breugelmans, S. M. (2021). Further tests of the scarcity and luxury hypotheses in dispositional greed: Evidence from two large-scale Dutch and American samples. Current Psychology. doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02467-z Article abstract: A recent, large-scale study among Chinese adolescents found that childhood socioeconomic status (CSES) was positively related to dispositional greed (i.e., the “luxury hypothesis”), instead of negatively related (i.e., the “scarcity hypothesis”; Liu et al., 2019c).

This relationship was found for only-children, not for children with siblings. The generalizability of these findings may be limited, due to China’s one-child policy and socioeconomic policies which may have led to fewer differences in wealth. We replicated this research in two other cultural contexts that represent markedly different socioeconomic policies in order to test its generalizability: the Netherlands (Study 1, N=2367, 51.3% female, Mage=54.06, SD=17.90), and the USA (Study 2, N=999, 50.1% female, Mage=33.44, SD=12.28).