Favors From Heaven: Sources and Benefits of Gratitude Toward God

Uhder, Jens; Webber, Amy C.; Watkins, Philip C.

doi:10.1037/e639512010-001

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“…This scale contains 10 items (e.g., "God has given me an overwhelming number of blessings in my life") that participants respond to on a 9-point scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "Strongly agree". Previous research has shown that this measure has excellent psychometric properties (Uhder et al 2010;Watkins et al 2019); however, in the current study the reverse scored item of the GTG-T did not correlate well with the total score. Thus, we eliminated this item when computing our scale means, and this somewhat revised scale showed excellent internal consistency (α = 0.99, 0.99).…”

Section: Trait Gratitude To God Scale (Gtg-t)contrasting

confidence: 99%

“…In an attempt to improve the psychometrics of the scale, we added four items and changed the response scale to a 7-point scale ranging from "completely disagree" to "completely agree". This scale has shown good reliability and validity (Uhder et al 2010) and had excellent internal consistency in this study (α = 0.96, 0.94).…”

Section: Satisfaction With Life Scale (Swls)supporting

confidence: 57%

“…Following Paloutzian and Ellison (1982), we define spiritual well-being as one's satisfaction with the spiritual domain of life, specifically, satisfaction with one's relationship with the sacred or divine. In this study, we used three measures to assess religious/spiritual well-being: the religious well-being subscale of the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (Paloutzian and Ellison 1982); a revised version of the Nearness to God Scale (NTG-R; Gorsuch and Smith 1983;Uhder et al 2010); and the Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire (SRF; Plante and Boccaccini 1997).…”

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Gratitude to God Predicts Religious Well-Being over Time

2022

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The authors used a prospective design to investigate how gratitude to God predicts religious well-being over time. Gratitude to God is a central aspect of monotheistic religions, and thus may be particularly important to the religious/spiritual well-being of believers. Participants completed online measures of trait and state gratitude to God, along with spiritual well-being, nearness to God, and religious commitment scales over a one-to-two-month period. General well-being, trait gratitude, and the Big Five personality traits were also assessed. After controlling baseline levels, trait gratitude and the Big Five personality traits, dispositional gratitude to God at Time 1 predicted increased religious well-being, nearness to God, and religious commitment at Time 2. Although gratitude to God was significantly related to general well-being variables in cross-sectional analyses, it did not predict these variables over time. Validity data for the gratitude to God measures are also presented. The results suggest that gratitude to God is important to religious/spiritual well-being, and gratitude to God may be a critical variable for research on positive psychology and the psychology of religion/spirituality.

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Section: Trait Gratitude To God Scale (Gtg-t)contrasting

confidence: 99%

Section: Satisfaction With Life Scale (Swls)supporting

confidence: 57%