Temporal associations between character strengths and civic action: A daily diary study

Oosterhoff, Benjamin; Whillock, Summer R.; Tintzman, Courtney S; Poppler, Ashleigh

doi:10.1080/17439760.2021.1940247

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“…For this reason, gratitude may also predict stronger beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding social justice or equity issues, as well as a stronger connection to the natural world that we share. Testing similar associations, a daily diary study by Oosterhoff [43] showed between-and within-person (within-day) positive associations between gratitude and environmentalism as well as helping behavior in a college sample. In addition, they found no such associations between gratitude and standard political or social movement behavior.…”

Section: Gratitude and Indices Of Self-other Interestsmentioning

confidence: 83%

Gratitude Moments as Predictors of Self- and Other-Orientation Indicators in a Racially/Ethnically Diverse Sample of US Young Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hussong

Petrie

Richards

et al. 2023

Youth

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Scholars posit that gratitude may enhance other-oriented beliefs and behaviors and dampen self-oriented ones through a cycle of upward generativity. We examined associations between gratitude as an indicator of self-orientation (i.e., materialism and entitlement) and other orientation (i.e., connection to nature; attitudes, beliefs, and conversations about social justice; prosocial behavior) in the US youth across six months as moderated by race/ethnicity and gender. Specifically, Study 1 evaluated the psychometric performance of the gratitude moments scale in a more racially and ethnically diverse sample than that included in the original scale development. In study 2, we evaluated pre-registered hypotheses among the youth who completed surveys in October 2020 and again in January 2021 (n = 812). These hypotheses tested (1) whether there were ethnic/racial differences in the measure of children’s gratitude; (2) whether there were reciprocal associations over time between children’s gratitude and indices of self and other orientation; and (3) whether these reciprocal associations varied as a function of youth race/ethnicity and gender. The results of study 1 found that the gratitude moments scale demonstrated high reliability and validity in racially/ethnically diverse young adolescents (n = 89). Using moderated nonlinear factor analysis in study 2, we found only one difference in how the gratitude moments scale performed as a function of race/ethnicity or gender. In cross-lagged panel models, gratitude moments did not predict subsequent self- and other-orientation indices, though youth with lower social justice attitudes and greater prosocial behavior showed increases in later gratitude moments. Prosocial behavior was more strongly and consistently related to self- and other-orientation indices than gratitude. These findings are consistent with models of prosocial behavior as a catalyst for the development of additional forms of other-oriented beliefs, attitudes, and actions that may underlie the development of an other-oriented purpose.

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Section: Gratitude and Indices Of Self-other Interestsmentioning

confidence: 83%

Gratitude Moments as Predictors of Self- and Other-Orientation Indicators in a Racially/Ethnically Diverse Sample of US Young Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hussong

Petrie

Richards

et al. 2023

Youth

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“…The positive role of gratitude in promoting volunteering behavior and encouraging volunteerism has been reported in volunteer settings (Naqshbandi et al, 2020;Oosterhoff et al, 2022). Positive association has been revealed between gratitude and volunteering/helping behavior (Oosterhoff et al, 2022). Volunteers who experience greater gratitude are more likely to participate volunteering behaviors.…”

Section: Gratitude Subjective Well-being and Retentionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Association of Gratitude With Individual and Organizational Outcomes Among Volunteers: An Application of Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions

Yang,

Liang,

Liang

et al. 2023

SAGE Open

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By applying the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions to the context of volunteering, we investigated how gratitude is associated with individual (subjective well-being) and organizational (volunteer retention) outcomes through the positive thought–action repertoires of prosocial motivation and volunteer engagement. The data of 924 Chinese volunteers (mean age = 35.7 ± 9.1 years, 26.2% males) from voluntary organizations were collected through an online survey. The indirect effects of gratitude on subjective well-being and retention were analyzed through structural equation modeling performed using Mplus. Gratitude was revealed to be associated with subjective well-being and retention through indirect pathways involving (a) prosocial motivation, (b) volunteer engagement, and (c) a sequential pathway from prosocial motivation to volunteer engagement. Our findings indicate that grateful volunteers tend to exhibit increased intention to help others and actively devote themselves to volunteering, which can contribute to personal and organizational resources.

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“…In addition, although we argue that volunteering could be understood in terms of capacities to enact a behavior, additional work is needed to clarify the mechanism by which SEB skills support sustained volunteering. Experimental studies and studies using other longitudinal methods such as daily reports could provide additional insight into how individuals utilize their skill capacities to participate in civic life (Oosterhoff et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Due to the crises caused by the pandemic, many in the United States turned to community organizations for support and essential services (Kulish, 2020), and early evidence suggests that the community needs created by the pandemic spurred individuals to volunteer in their communities (Churchill, 2020; Sin et al, 2021; Yazdani et al, 2022). Past work has explored how individual differences in personal qualities relate to volunteering in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood (Atkins et al, 2005; Carlo et al, 2005; Cemalcilar, 2009; Metzger et al, 2016, 2018; Obradović & Masten, 2007; Oosterhoff et al, 2021). This empirical study builds upon that literature by investigating how social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skills predict volunteering for students, ages 18 to 25, who were engaged in a university‐wide volunteering initiative to ameliorate the negative community impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic.…”

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confidence: 99%

The social, emotional, and behavioral skill antecedents to college students' volunteering during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Sewell

Napolitano

Roberts

et al. 2023

J of Research on Adolesc

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Temporal associations between character strengths and civic action: A daily diary study

Cited by 7 publications

References 36 publications

Gratitude Moments as Predictors of Self- and Other-Orientation Indicators in a Racially/Ethnically Diverse Sample of US Young Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Gratitude Moments as Predictors of Self- and Other-Orientation Indicators in a Racially/Ethnically Diverse Sample of US Young Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Association of Gratitude With Individual and Organizational Outcomes Among Volunteers: An Application of Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions

The social, emotional, and behavioral skill antecedents to college students' volunteering during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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