Gratitude mediates perceptions of previous generations’ prosocial behaviors and prosocial attitudes toward future generations

Barnett, Michael D.; Vleet, Samuel C. Van; Cantu, Christina

doi:10.1080/17439760.2019.1676459

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“…For example, trait gratitude is associated with positive attitudes about prior generations' benevolence (Strelan, 2007) and just world beliefs (Jiang et al, 2016). Likewise, grateful people are more likely to have positive attitudes toward future generations (Barnett et al, 2021). Furthermore, individuals' attachment styles are reflections of their beliefs about others and of others' motives.…”

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Appreciating social science research on gratitude: An integrative review for organizational scholarship on gratitude in the workplace

2022

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Though gratitude research in organizational behavior (OB) is nascent, this emotion has a rich history in the social sciences. Research has shown gratitude to promote prosocial behaviors, encourage personal well-being, and foster interpersonal relationships. However, gratitude research has been siloed among these three outcomes of gratitude (moral, wellness, and relational). Similarly, past reviews of gratitude have focused on only one group of outcomes, one of its forms (trait, state, or expressed), or empirical findings without emphasis on the theoretical underpinnings. In contrast, this review recognizes that each type of gratitude, its functions, and outcomes are part of a single process model of gratitude. As such, in the current review, we provide a comprehensive assessment of gratitude in the social sciences by distilling and organizing the literature per our process model of episodic gratitude. Then, we translate the insights for management scholars, highlighting possible differences and synergies between extant research and workplace gratitude thereby helping advance "gratitude science" in the workplace. In all, this review (a) examines definitions and operationalizations of gratitude and provides recommendations for organizational research; (b) proposes a process model of episodic workplace gratitude as a conceptual map to guide future OB research on gratitude; (c) reviews empirical gratitude research through the lens of our process model; and (d) discusses the current state of the literature, important differences for workplace gratitude, and future directions for organizational scholars.

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Appreciating social science research on gratitude: An integrative review for organizational scholarship on gratitude in the workplace

2022

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“…Emotions such as gratitude evolved as a mechanism to help promote cooperation and group coordination ( Stellar et al, 2017 ). Recent studies have found that perceiving past generations as prosocial motivates prosociality towards others and future generations ( Barnett, Van Vleet, & Cantu, 2019 ). Studies have also shown that gratitude often acts in an altruistic manner, promoting prosocial helping behaviors even when it comes with costs to the actor ( Bartlett & DeSteno, 2006 ).…”

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“…Individual differences in the salience of legacy motives seem poised to help explain the proposed linkages between dispositional fairness and gratitude on the one hand and whether people make socially optimal decisions in response to the pandemic on the other. Research has revealed that those who emphasize fairness as a core moral value are more likely to be concerned with altruism and reciprocity (e.g., Abbate & Ruggieri, 2011 ) and other work shows that people who have engaged in reciprocal exchange express more dispositional gratitude (e.g., Barnett et al, 2019 ). Further, theoretical claims in the field of intergenerational reciprocity consider beneficence by previous generations to be a factor that promotes legacy motives (see Wade-Benzoni & Tost, 2009 ).…”

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Prosocial responses to COVID-19: Examining the role of gratitude, fairness and legacy motives

Syropoulos

Markowitz

2021

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…The limitations of this study offer a useful starting point for future research. Firstly, this study did not measure mediating variables which have been found to be influential in previous research such as gratitude (Markowitz, 2012;Barnett et al, 2021), regret (Anderson et al, 2012), guilt (Harth et al, 2013), inspiration (Watkins and Goodwin, 2020) and pride (Bissing-Olson, 2016). Expanding research to include these could provide a more in-depth understanding of the factors at play when reflecting on negatively framed events.…”

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Reflecting on a Difficult Past Does Not Influence Pro-Environmental Attitudes or Behaviours

Higgins

Kilpatrick

2022

EJSD

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Successfully addressing the environmental crisis requires current generations to change behaviours for the benefit of future generations. Perceptions of responsibility towards future generations have been found to increase pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours. Therefore, methods which enhance feelings of responsibility, or intergenerational reciprocity, are central to tackling the environmental crisis. Research shows intergenerational reciprocity can be increased through the process of reflecting on the heroic actions and sacrifices of past generations. However, the impact of reflecting on a negatively framed ‘difficult’ past remains unknown. Via an online, quasi-experimental questionnaire, this study utilised the context of the ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland, known as ‘The Troubles’, to explore how reflecting on a difficult past influences pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours. The results suggest that reflecting on The Troubles has no effect on pro-environmental attitudes or behaviour. The salience of negative feelings about The Troubles may have supressed the generation of intergenerational reciprocity and environmental concern

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Gratitude mediates perceptions of previous generations’ prosocial behaviors and prosocial attitudes toward future generations

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

Appreciating social science research on gratitude: An integrative review for organizational scholarship on gratitude in the workplace

Appreciating social science research on gratitude: An integrative review for organizational scholarship on gratitude in the workplace

Prosocial responses to COVID-19: Examining the role of gratitude, fairness and legacy motives

Reflecting on a Difficult Past Does Not Influence Pro-Environmental Attitudes or Behaviours

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