The Relationships Among Gratitude, Self-esteem, Social Support and Life Satisfaction Among Undergraduate Students

Gratitude, Psychopathology and Subjective Well-Being: Results from a 7.5-Month Prospective General Population Study

“…The first mechanism is the positive affect mechanism that considers gratitude a positive emotion, and predicts that feelings of positive affect and positive emotion act in a direct upward spiral toward enhanced subjective well-being (Fredrickson and Joiner 2002). Secondly, following the broaden-and-build mechanism of positive emotions (Fredrickson 2001), gratitude strengthens social bonds (Algoe et al 2008;Bartlett et al 2012;Kong et al 2015) that in turn function as a resource for maintaining mental health in times of adversity (Fredrickson 2004;Kawachi and Berkman 2001). Thirdly, gratitude may lead to enhanced well-being through more adaptive coping, resulting in lower levels of stress, and enhanced subjective well-being (Wood et al 2007).…”

“…However, although a number of studies, both cross-sectional and longitudinal, have linked the grateful trait negatively to measures of psychopathology (Kleiman et al 2013;Krause 2009;Lies et al 2014;Petrocchi and Couyoumdjian 2016;Wood et al 2008a), and other studies have reported positive associations between gratitude and measures of well-being (Chaves et al 2015;Gillham et al 2011;Kong et al 2015;Szcześniak and Soares 2011;Thrash et al 2010;Tsai et al 2016;Watkins et al 2003;Zhou and Wu 2015), no studies to date have examined relations between the grateful trait and both dimensions of mental health together. Our understanding of the grateful trait's contribution to mental health remains, therefore, incomplete, and calls for additional prospective examination of how gratitude impacts on the combinedly assessed dimensions of psychopathology and subjective well-being.…”

“…In addition, the majority of studies on the relationship between gratitude and mental health were carried out among adolescent (mainly student) convenience samples (Gillham et al 2011;Kleiman et al 2013;Kong et al 2015;Petrocchi and Couyoumdjian 2016;Watkins et al 2003;Wood et al 2008a), among elderly individuals (Krause 2009), or among individuals within a particular psychological context, such as earthquake survivors (Lies et al 2014;Zhou and Wu 2015), military veterans (Tsai et al 2016), breast cancer survivors (Hulett et al 2015), or children with a life threatening illness (Chaves et al 2015). It remains uncertain to what extent the results produced by these studies reflect general patterns at the population level.…”

Correlation Between Gratitude and Perceived Social Support in Parents of Children with Intellectual Disability

“…Secondly, gratitude can develop supportive environment and thus result in higher awareness of social support [13]. Thirdly, gratitude is associated with perceived social support where family support mediate the relationship between other variables, such as selfesteem dan life satisfaction [24]. Lastly, gratitude is related to emotional and instrumental social support [15].…”

The Role of Agentic and Communal Values in the Individuals’ Outcomes of Job Related Affective Well Being and Political Deviance

“…However, as a different finding, Helgeson (1994) found that A values were associated with reduced depression, anxiety, and health complaints; whereas C values showed less associations with well-being. Similarly, it was showed that A values were linked with variables that were related with life satisfaction (Çivitçi and Çivitçi, 2009;Kong, Ding and Zhao, 2014), such as, self-esteem and self-efficacy beliefs (Abele, 2003). On the other hand, studies show that A traits predicted success, achievement, assertive actions, political behaviors, and competence in an individual's occupational career (Abele, 2003;Abele and Spurk, 2011).…”