Counting blessings in early adolescents: An experimental study of gratitude and subjective well-being

Froh, Jeffrey J.; Sefick, William J.; Emmons, Robert A.

doi:10.1016/j.jsp.2007.03.005

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“…Whereas NA was higher in the hassle group, it was not lower in the gratitude group when compared to the neutral group. Our findings mimicked those in the literature, which generally found that gratitude manipulation did not yield better indices of emotional wellbeing, whether concurrently or prospectively, as compared to control conditions (Emmons and McCullough 2003;Froh et al 2008). Our brief gratitude induction procedure may not be sufficient to bring about an overall change in positive and negative emotions.…”

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Gratitude lessens death anxiety

Lau

Cheng

2011

Eur J Ageing

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This study investigated whether a brief gratitude induction could reduce death anxiety. 83 Chinese older adults (mean age = 62.7, SD = 7.13) were randomly assigned into one of three conditions: gratitude, hassle, and neutral, in which they wrote different types of life events before responding to measures of death anxiety and affect. Participants in the gratitude induction reported lower death anxiety than the hassle and the neutral condition, whereas no difference was observed for the latter two conditions. There was no experimental effect on positive affect, and a significant effect on negative affect but which did not favor the gratitude condition. By reexamining life events with a thankful attitude, people may become less fearful of death due to a sense that life has been well-lived. Because gratitude can be induced using a very brief procedure, there are broad applications in clinical and health-care settings for the relief of death anxiety.

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confidence: 81%

Gratitude lessens death anxiety

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Cheng

2011

Eur J Ageing

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“…which previous researchers (Froh et al, 2014;Froh, Sefick, & Emmons, 2008;Peterson, Ruch, Beermann, Park, & Seligman, 2007;Seligman, 2011) have demonstrated are associated with subjective well-being and happiness. One implication of this finding is that the SEHS-S could be used to identify students who are exhibiting early indications of diminished life quality indicators .…”

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An Exploration of Effects of Bullying Victimization From a Complete Mental Health Perspective

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Furlong

2016

Sage Open

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This study explored the effects of being bullied from a dual-factor lens, specifically examining the relation between victimization and constructs that contribute to social-emotional well-being. Prior to carrying out the main analyses, the factor structure of self-report items related to experiencing bullying and harassment from the California Healthy Kids Survey, which was administered to more than 14,000 high school students, was examined to establish that these items represent an overall factor: students’ experience of victimization. This factor was then used as an independent variable in a series of planned comparisons with a dependent variable represented by constructs addressed by the Social Emotional Health Survey–Secondary: belief-in-self, emotional competence, belief-in-others, and engaged living. With increased frequency of victimization, suicidality increased and belief-in-others decreased. For other constructs, belief-in-self, engaged living, and depression, there were significant differences found between individuals who had experienced frequencies of bullying as low as less than once a month and those who did not experience bullying at all but no further detrimental impacts were seen with even higher frequencies of victimization, indicating that being victimized at all is significantly worse than not being victimized for these variables. Implications and future directions for research are explored.

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“…Em outras palavras, a gratidão não é inata, portanto é possível desenvolvê-la. Ainda que a trajetória do desenvolvimento da gratidão seja uma questão a ser investigada (Froh et al, 2008), alguns estudos indicam que as crianças são capazes de vivenciar, compreender e expressar gratidão, conforme será mostrado na sessão a seguir.…”

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“…Estudos na área da infância revelam que a gratidão está associada a crianças e adolescentes menos ansiosos e mais felizes (Kasser, 2005) e que demonstram mais sentimentos positivos sobre a escola, os amigos e os professores (Bono & Froh, 2009;Froh et al, 2008 (Froh, Miller & Snyder, 2007 Baumgarten-Tramer (1938), no qual a autora cita a gratidão verbal, em que a criança diz "obrigado", parecendo reproduzir um termo aprendido com pais e professores, sem ser necessariamente acompanhada de um sentimento de gratidão.…”

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Sentimento de gratidão na infância: algumas considerações teóricas

Rava

2014

Psicol. cienc. prof.

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O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar uma discussão teórica sobre o tema da gratidão. Inicialmente, define-se como se entende a gratidão neste trabalho. Prossegue-se versando sobre o que se sabe sobre a gratidão na infância. Por último, tem-se uma revisão de alguns resultados de estudos recentes, enfocando especialmente aqueles que versam sobre a distinção entre gratidão e obrigação. A gratidão tem sido estudada pelos psicólogos, mas as pesquisas empíricas enfocando o desenvolvimento desse sentimento ao longo da infância ainda são escassas. A relação entre gratidão e sentimento de obrigatoriedade também necessita de elucidação. Pode-se pensar que estudar como a gratidão se desenvolve na infância pode servir para a implementação de programas de intervenção com crianças a partir de estratégias que busquem potencializar esse sentimento em indivíduos que estão em fase precoce de desenvolvimento.

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Counting blessings in early adolescents: An experimental study of gratitude and subjective well-being

Cited by 630 publications

References 34 publications

Gratitude lessens death anxiety

Gratitude lessens death anxiety

An Exploration of Effects of Bullying Victimization From a Complete Mental Health Perspective

Sentimento de gratidão na infância: algumas considerações teóricas

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