Grateful experiences and expressions: the role of gratitude expressions in the link between gratitude experiences and well-being

Yoshimura, Stephen M.; Berzins, Kassandra

doi:10.1080/15358593.2017.1293836

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“…With respect to primary prevention, focused workshops and activities aimed at increasing or harnessing hope and gratitude could be offered to first-year students. Previous researchers, for example, have identified that gratitude can be facilitated or harnessed through the use of writing grateful letters (Toepfer, Cichy, & Peters, 2012), journaling (O’Connell, O’Shea, & Gallagher, 2017), verbally expressing gratitude (Yoshimura & Berzins, 2017), or training individuals to be mindful of experiences of gratitude through psychoeducation and practice (Froh et al, 2014). Likewise, hopeful thinking can be influenced through psychoeducation and setting meaningful goals, with some evidence indicating that goal achievement can be increased by participating in a hope-focused workshop lasting as little as 90 min (Feldman & Dreher, 2012).…”

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Character Strengths and First-Year College Students’ Academic Persistence Attitudes: An Integrative Model

Browning

McDermott

Scaffa

et al. 2018

The Counseling Psychologist

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Higher education scholars produce the majority of research on student persistence. However, counseling psychologists may be uniquely situated to help students persist toward graduation by enhancing strengths. The present study integrated counseling and higher education models to examine college students' character strengths (i.e., hope and gratitude) as predictors of student persistence variables (i.e., academic integration and institutional commitment). Drawing on higher education theories of persistence, we examined the mediating effects of academic integration on the associations between character strengths and institutional commitment among first-year undergraduate students (N = 653). Controlling for social support, greater academic integration mediated the associations between character strengths and institutional commitment in a structural equation model. Consistent with higher education theories emphasizing academic integration as a precursor to institutional commitment, character strengths may be important for understanding academic integration and persistence. Implications for prevention and the integration of counseling psychology and higher education perspectives are discussed.

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Character Strengths and First-Year College Students’ Academic Persistence Attitudes: An Integrative Model

Browning

McDermott

Scaffa

et al. 2018

The Counseling Psychologist

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“…Our recent meta‐narrative review of gratitude in healthcare identified a need for research on the ways in which gratitude acquires meaning in real‐world situations. 13 Yoshimura and Berzins 14 have called for a focus on expressions of gratitude to extend and enrich the plethora of research on gratitude experiences. In particular, they call for examinations of the semantic features of gratitude expressions and the topics on which people focus when thanking others.…”

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An outbreak of appreciation: A discursive analysis of tweets of gratitude expressed to the National Health Service at the outset of the COVID‐19 pandemic

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Robert

Leedham‐Green

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Health Expectations

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Background The early stages of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic prompted unprecedented displays of gratitude to healthcare workers. In the United Kingdom, gratitude was a hotly debated topic in public discourse, catalysing compelling displays of civic togetherness but also attracting criticism for being an unhelpful distraction that authorized unrealistic expectations of healthcare workers. Expressions of thanks tend to be neglected as drivers of transformation, and yet, they are important indicators of qualities to which people attach significance. Objective This study aimed to use discursive analysis to explore how the National Health Service (NHS) was constructed in attention‐attracting tweets that expressed and/or discussed gratitude to the NHS. Methods Having determined that Twitter was the most active site for traffic relating to gratitude and the NHS, we established a corpus of 834 most‐liked tweets, purposively sampled from Twitter searches on a day‐by‐day basis over the period of the first lockdown in the United Kingdom (22 March–28 May 2020). We developed a typology for tweets engaging with gratitude as well as analysing what the NHS was thanked for. Results Our analysis, informed by a discursive psychology approach, found that the meanings attributed to gratitude were highly mobile and there were distinct patterns of activity. The NHS was predominantly—and sometimes idealistically—thanked for working, effort, saving and caring. Displays of gratitude were seen as incommensurable with failures of responsibility. The clap‐for‐carers campaign was a potent driver of affect, especially in the early parts of the lockdown. Conclusions The social value of gratitude is implicated in the re‐evaluation of the risks and rewards of healthcare and social care work in the wake of the pandemic. We caution against cynicism about gratitude overshadowing the well‐being effects that expressing and receiving gratitude can engender, particularly given concerns over the detrimental effects of the pandemic on mental health. Public Contribution This study involves the analysis of data provided by the public and published on social media.

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“…In recent years, gratitude has emerged as a compelling component of psychological and physical well-being (Yoshimura & Berzins, 2017). Research has burgeoned.…”

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Gratitude in Health Care: A Meta-narrative Review

2020

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Research into gratitude as a significant sociological and psychological phenomenon has proliferated in the past two decades. However, there is little consensus on how it should be conceptualized or investigated empirically. We present a meta-narrative review that focuses on gratitude in health care, with an emphasis on research exploring interpersonal experiences in the context of care provision. Six meta-narratives from literatures across the humanities, sciences, and medicine are identified, contextualized, and discussed: gratitude as social capital; gifts; care ethics; benefits of gratitude; gratitude and staff well-being; and gratitude as an indicator of quality of care. Meta-narrative review was a valuable framework for making sense of theoretical antecedents and findings in this developing area of research. We conclude that greater attention needs to be given to what constitutes “evidence” in gratitude research and call for qualitative studies to better understand and shape the role and implications of gratitude in health care.

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Grateful experiences and expressions: the role of gratitude expressions in the link between gratitude experiences and well-being

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Character Strengths and First-Year College Students’ Academic Persistence Attitudes: An Integrative Model

Character Strengths and First-Year College Students’ Academic Persistence Attitudes: An Integrative Model

An outbreak of appreciation: A discursive analysis of tweets of gratitude expressed to the National Health Service at the outset of the COVID‐19 pandemic

Gratitude in Health Care: A Meta-narrative Review

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