Grateful recounting enhances subjective well-being: The importance of grateful processing

Watkins, Philip C.; Uhder, Jens; Pichinevskiy, Stan

doi:10.1080/17439760.2014.927909

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“…Therefore, gratitude is associated with a variety of positive psychological outcomes. Counting blessings was related to more gratitude, optimism, and life satisfaction (Watkins, Uhder, & Pichinevskiy, 2015). Like other positive aspects of human behavior, cognition and feelings of gratitude might be impacted by negative life events.…”

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Qualitatively Exploring the Relationship among Gratitude, Spirituality and Life Satisfaction in Turkish-Muslim Children

Göcen¹

2016

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Citation: Göcen, G. (2016). Qualitatively exploring the relationship among gratitude, spirituality and life satisfaction in Turkish-Muslim children. Spiritual Psychology and Counseling, 1, 189-208. http://dx.doi.org/10.12738/spc.2016.2.0010 AbstractThe aim of this paper is to study what children are grateful for in daily life and to reveal the relationship among gratitude, spirituality, and life satisfaction. This study investigates gratitude by qualitatively analyzing children' s gratitude diaries. Convenience sampling has been used in the research. Children from lower and middle socio-economic levels studying in a school located in a developing neighborhood were chosen. The sample of the study consisted of 70 children between the ages of 11 and 12 years old (SD = .25). After the aim of the study was explained to the children, they were asked to voluntarily keep a gratitude diary. The participants recorded their daily experiences in written diaries at the end of each day for three weeks. The data was collected by the author in 2012. Content and frequency analyses were used. According to the results of the study, the most common themes in the children' s gratitude were having a family and being able to meet their basic needs. Their own happiness emerged third. Also, expressions and drawings that were in their diaries show that gratitude is linked with their spirituality and life satisfaction. According to this, as gratitude increased, spirituality increased, too. Keywords Gratitude • Spirituality • Turkish-Muslim children• Gratitude diaries• Life satisfaction Türk-Müslüman Çocuklarında Minnettarlık, Maneviyat ve Yaşam Memnuniyeti arasındaki İlişkilerin Nitel olarak İncelenmesi ÖzBu çalışmanın amacı, günlük yaşamda çocukların neler için minnettar oldukları ve şükrettiklerini incelemek ve minnettarlık, maneviyat ve yaşam memnuniyeti arasındaki ilişkileri nitel olarak açıklamaktır. Çalışmada çocukların minnettarlık günlükleri analiz edilerek inceleme yapılmıştır. Araştırmada uygun örnekleme yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Gelişmekte olan bir bölgesindeki bir okulda okuyan alt ve orta sosyoekonomik düzeyden ailelerin çocukları araştırma grubu olarak belirlenmiştir. Araştırmanın örneklemini 11 ve 12 yaş yaş arasındaki (SS = .25) 70 çocuk oluşturmuştur. Çocuklara araştırmanın amaçları açıklanmış, ve gönüllü olarak bir minnettarlık günlüğü tutmaları istenmiştir. Çocuklar üç hafta boyunca her gün günlüklerine deneyimlerini yazmışlardır. Veriler yazar tarafından 2012 yılında toplanmıştır. İçerik ve frekans analizleri yapılmıştır. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre çocukların minnettarlık ve şükür davranışları ile ilgili en sık rastlanan temaların bir aileye sahip olma ve temel ihtiyaçlarını karşılayabilme olduğu görülmüştür. Kendilerinin mutlu olması ise üçüncü bir tema olarak ortaya çıkmıştır. Ayrıca günlüklerindeki ifadeler ve çizimler incelendiğinde, minnettarlığın maneviyat ve yaşam doyumu ile ilişkili olduğu görülmektedir. Buna göre minnettarlığın artması maneviyatın da artması ile ilişkilidir.

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Qualitatively Exploring the Relationship among Gratitude, Spirituality and Life Satisfaction in Turkish-Muslim Children

Göcen¹

2016

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“…Although they made a series of recommendations to enhance the internal validity of studies, they did not suggest that gratitude was not a cause of well-being. Watkins, Uhder, and Pichinevskiy (2015) is a good example of a study that found a causal link from gratitude to well-being within the context of a gratitude intervention. Participants who wrote three things for which they were grateful each day over the course of a week, compared to those who wrote about things that increased pride or those in a memory placebo condition, experienced greater subjective well-being up to five weeks after the intervention.…”

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A daily diary study of relationships between feelings of gratitude and well-being

Nezlek

Newman

Thrash

2016

The Journal of Positive Psychology

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“…In recent years, considerable research effort has been dedicated to investigating the ways in which levels of happiness might be bolstered (e.g., Conyers and Wilson 2015;Mongrain et al 2012;Seligman et al 2005). For example, some researchers have developed protocols that involve participants writing about past experiences or events that have made them feel grateful, once a day for a period of 1 week, and have shown that doing so can improve levels of happiness (Watkins et al 2015). The current findings, however, open the door to potential new avenues for enhancing happiness that could usefully be pursued by future researchers.…”

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A Positive Perspective on Attentional Bias: Positive Affectivity and Attentional Bias to Positive Information

Grafton

MacLeod

2016

J Happiness Stud

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In recent years there has been growing interest in determining the attentional basis of positive affectivity. Investigators have sought to evaluate the hypothesis that elevated positive affectivity is characterized by an attentional bias that favours the processing of positive information over neutral information. Unfortunately, in the studies carried out to date, the assessment procedures used by researchers to assess such attentional selectivity have either been methodologically limited or methodologically flawed. Hence, the validity of the hypothesis has remained indeterminate. To overcome the problems associated with attentional assessment procedures used in previous studies, and so shed light on the attentional basis of positive affectivity, we employed an appropriate variant of the attentional probe task. Our findings show that participants high in positive affectivity displayed greater relative attention to positive information compared to neutral information, than was the case for their low positive affectivity counterparts. Thus, the present results support the hypothesis that an attentional bias to positive information, relative to neutral information, is characteristic of elevated positive affectivity.

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Grateful recounting enhances subjective well-being: The importance of grateful processing

Cited by 105 publications

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Qualitatively Exploring the Relationship among Gratitude, Spirituality and Life Satisfaction in Turkish-Muslim Children

Qualitatively Exploring the Relationship among Gratitude, Spirituality and Life Satisfaction in Turkish-Muslim Children

A daily diary study of relationships between feelings of gratitude and well-being

A Positive Perspective on Attentional Bias: Positive Affectivity and Attentional Bias to Positive Information

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