Gratitude and grit indirectly reduce risk of suicidal ideations by enhancing meaning in life: Evidence for a mediated moderation model

Kleiman, Evan M.; Adams, Leah M.; Kashdan, Todd B.; Riskind, John H.

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2013.04.007

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“…When not taking into account current symptoms of psychopathology, our study indeed found gratitude to be a highly significant, albeit weak negative predictor of future psychopathology symptoms, in line with previous research showing gratitude to longitudinally predict lower levels of stress, depression and anxiety (Kleiman et al 2013;Krause 2009;Lies et al 2014;Wood et al 2008a). However, our study findings also revealed that the current presence of psychopathology is by far the strongest predictor of psychopathology in the future, irrespective of gratitude, and a lack of attention thereto may have led, in part, to exaggerated or imprecise findings regarding the protective effects of gratitude against psychopathology in previous reports.…”

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“…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.…”

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“…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.…”

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Gratitude is considered an important source of human strength in achieving and maintaining good mental health. Although complete mental health encompasses the absence of psychopathology and the presence of subjective well-being, no studies to date have examined relations between gratitude and both mental health dimensions together. Moreover, most studies focused on specific samples with a restricted demographic range. Our study, therefore, examined (a) demographic variability in the grateful trait, and (b) prospective associations between gratitude and both dimensions of mental health: psychopathology and subjective well-being. Using a four wave prospective survey design in a large (N = 706) sample of Dutch adults (M age = 44, SD age = 14, Range = 18-80), we measured gratitude with the SGRAT, symptoms of psychopathology with the SCL-90, and subjective well-being with the PANAS and SWLS. Gratitude was significantly associated with age, gender, education level, and employment status. Multilevel time-lagged regression analyses showed that the grateful trait did not predict symptoms of psychopathology, but was a significant albeit weak predictor of subjective well-being, when adjusting for the effects of demographic factors, and prior levels of subjective well-being and psychopathology. Our findings indicate that the grateful trait is associated with demographic factors, and shows complex connections with the presence of well-being and absence of psychopathology. These dynamics should be taken into consideration when studying the role of gratitude in mental health, and developing, applying, and evaluating gratitude interventions with the aim of enhancing subjective well-being and/or reducing psychopathology.

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“…Nevertheless, in this view negative states may be addressed not only directly (e.g., through concentrating on problems, analysis, interpretation and remedy of their origins) but they can be reduced indirectly through expanding the scope of positive experiences (Seligman, Rashid, & Parks, 2006). In this context, meaning in life, for example, induced by gratitude and grit was shown to be an indirect suicide resiliency factor (Kleiman, Adams, Kashdan, & Riskind, 2013).…”

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Subjective well-being as a mediator for curiosity and depression

Kaczmarek¹,

Bączkowski²,

Enko³

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Polish Psychological Bulletin

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Curiosity is a personality trait that is inversely related to depression and positively related to subjective wellbeing. However, the relationship between curiosity and these two outcomes is still unclear which hampers our general understanding of well-being. Based on research within positive psychology that showed character strengths such as curiosity can indirectly decrease depression, we hypothesized that the inverse relationship between curiosity and depression would be mediated by subjective well-being. Two hundred and fifty seven participants, between 18 and 64 years old (M = 24.50, SD = 8.33) completed a web-based survey comprising: The Curiosity and Exploration Inventory - II, Center for Epidemiological Studies - Depression and the Steen Happiness Index. We found that well-being mediated the relationship between curiosity and depression. The results indicate that curious individuals tend to report higher levels of subjective well-being which, in turn, is associated with lower levels of depression. Our findings contribute to the understanding of positive results obtained from clinical samples that underwent positive psychotherapy of depression.

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“…A vonás-hála a koherencia-érzéssel is szoros pozitív korrelációban áll: Lambert és munkatársai eredményei alapján a hála hatását a koherenciaérzésre a pozitív újrakeretezés kognitív funkciója közvetíti (Lambert, Graham, Fincham, & Stillman, 2009). A Hála Kérdõívvel végzett legújabb kutatások bizonyították továbbá a hála rezilienciával kapcsolatos fontosságát (Gomez, Vincent, & Toussaint, 2013), kimutatták a hála védõ szerepét az öngyilkossági gondolatokkal szemben az élet értelmességének (meaning in life) megnövelésén keresztül (Kleiman, Adams, Kashdan, & Riskind, 2013), illetve bizonyítot-ták a hála és a bölcsesség összefüggését (König & Glück, 2013). …”

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Introduction and psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6-H)

Martos¹,

Garay²,

Désfalvi³

2014

Mentálhigiéné és Pszichoszomatika

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Elméleti háttér: A McCullough, Emmons és Tsang (2002) által megalkotott Hála Kérdõív (Gratitude Questionnaire, GQ-6) a vonás-hálával foglalkozó pozitív pszichológiai kutatások gyakran alkalmazott eszköze. Cél: A tanulmányban bemutatjuk a Hála Kérdõív magyar fordítását (GQ-6-H), az azzal szerzett eredményeket, valamint elemezzük pszichometriai jellemzõit. Módszer: Az elemzéshez összesen két keresztmetszeti adatfelvétel adatait használtuk fel (N = 577, férfi: 182, nõ: 393). A GQ-6-H mellett szerepelt a kérdõívcsomagokban az Élettel való Elégedettség Skála, a Rosenberg Önértékelés Skála és az Élet Értelme Kérdõ-ív magyar változatai is, valamint egy almintában rákérdeztünk a szubjektív egészségi állapot-ra és a szubjektív anyagi helyzetre is. Eredmények: A Hála Kérdõív konfirmatív faktorelemzés alapján egyértelmûen egydimenziós eszköznek bizonyult, melynek jók a megbízhatósági mutatói (Cronbach-alfa 0,75 és 0,79 között), és elfogadható az idõbeli stabilitása is. A szociodemográfiai változók közül a nem és az iskolai végzettség szignifikáns elõrejelzõ változó-nak bizonyult: a nõk a férfiakhoz képest (béta = 0,201; p < 0,001), valamint a középfokú és a felsõfokú végzettségûek az alapfokúhoz képest erõsebb hálaérzésrõl számoltak be (béta = 0,304 és 0,415; p < 0,01). A vonás-hála továbbá pozitívan jelezte elõre az élettel való elé-gedettséget (béta = 0,230; p < 0,001), függetlenül az élet értelmessége megélésének és az önértékelésnek a mértékétõl. Következtetések: A bemutatott eredmények alapján a Hála Kér-dõív magyar változata megbízható és érvényes mérõeszköz, amely jól alkalmazható a hálára való képesség diszpozíciójának mérésére. Kulcsszavak: diszpozicionális hála, Hála Kérdõív, konfirmatív faktorelemzés, érvényesség, validitásMentálhigiéné és Pszichoszomatika 15 (2014) 3, 203-214

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Gratitude and grit indirectly reduce risk of suicidal ideations by enhancing meaning in life: Evidence for a mediated moderation model

Cited by 314 publications

References 49 publications

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

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

Subjective well-being as a mediator for curiosity and depression

Introduction and psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6-H)

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