Materialism and the five-factor model of personality

The hypothesis that High and Low Materialism groups have different personal ity profiles was rested with 280 introductory psychology students (135 men and 114 women) who completed the Belk Materialism Scale and the NEO Five-Fa ctor Inventory for partial course credit. Results of discriminant function analysis supported the hypothesis, indicating that groups High and Low in M aterialism had significantly different personality profiles and that the st andard discriminant function coefficients were substantial (>.30): for Neur oticism -.59, Agreeableness .53, and Openness .32.