“…Specifically, the results reveal that all four subscales of gratitude were positively associated with positive affect and inversely associated with negative affect, indicating that people who are more grateful, both to other people and to transcendental forces, experience a better affective experience. This result is consistent with previous studies in which gratitude was related to various dimensions of well-being, conducted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., Burke et al, 2020;Jiang, 2020), in other historical times of adversity (e.g., Coffman, 1996;Peterson and Seligman, 2003), and also in normative historical times (e.g., Mairean et al, 2019). However, the four subscales of gratitude were not related to FC.…”