Meta-Analysis of Employee Materialism and Work Outcomes

Valentina Reyes compiled 375 effect sizes from 154 primary studies on materialism and employee outcomes. Materialism is defined as the importance placed on wealth, possessions, status, and image. The dataset was published on figshare in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the correlation between materialism and specific employee well-being measures across studies.
• Investigate moderating effects of country or work-related conditions on materialism-outcome relationships.
• Model the aggregated effect sizes for materialism on employee attitudes and behaviors.

Strengths

• Aggregates data from 154 primary studies, providing a broad evidence base.
• Contains 375 individual effect sizes for meta-analytic modeling.

Limitations

• The dataset is small at 65.6 KB, limiting detailed analysis of individual study data.
• Contains only aggregated effect sizes, not raw participant-level data from the original studies.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Valentina Reyes.

Collection Method

Meta-analysis compiling effect sizes from published primary studies.

Freshness

Last updated in April 2026.

Geography

Global, as studies include a country moderator.