The Development of the Virtue of Gratitude: Theoretical Foundations and Cross-Cultural Issues

Merçon-Vargas, Elisa A.; Poelker, Katelyn E.; Tudge, Jonathan

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“…Given that studies also support the notion that cultural differences may also exist in gratitude expression (Tudge, Freitas, & O'Brien, 2015;Merçon-Vargas, Poelker, & Tudge, 2018), it seems reasonable to conduct research in many different countries. Such trans-cultural studies could then focus on clarifying the developmental and cultural aspects of gratitude and explore the ways in which cognitive, emotional, moral processes and values are implicated in the experience of gratitude.…”

Section: Are Women More Empathetic and Grateful And Men More Resilient?mentioning

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Empathy, Gratitude, and Resilience – Does Gender Make a Difference?

2020

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Investigaciones anteriores muestran que la mayoría de las mujeres reportan niveles más altos de empatía y gratitud que los hombres. Aunque los estudios muestran relaciones entre resiliencia, gratitud y empatía, se sabe poco sobre la influencia del género en los vínculos entre ellos. El presente estudio examinó las diferencias individuales y las relaciones entre los niveles de empatía, gratitud y resiliencia de los adultos, particularmente cómo el género influye en tales relaciones. En segundo lugar, se probó el papel de mediación de la resiliencia en las asociaciones entre empatía y gratitud. Los participantes fueron 214 adultos polacos (104 mujeres) autoidentificados, con edades entre 18 y 55 años (M = 28.29 años, DT = 11.19), que completaron medidas de empatía de autoinforme en línea (escala QCAE), gratitud (escala GRAT) y resiliencia (escala SPP-25). El estudio transversal se utilizó para obtener los datos. Los resultados muestran que las mujeres obtuvieron puntuaciones más altas en empatía y gratitud que los hombres, pero los hombres informaron niveles más altos de resistencia que las mujeres. La apertura a nuevas experiencias de vida (dimensión de resiliencia) surgió como el predictor más fuerte de gratitud en ambos grupos. La resiliencia también sirvió como mediador entre la empatía y la gratitud y esto difería según el género autoidentificado. Se discuten las implicaciones para la investigación del desarrollo de género en psicología positiva. Past research shows most women report higher levels of empathy and gratitude than men. Although studies show relations among resilience, gratitude, and empathy, little is known on the influence of gender on the links among. The present study examined the individual difference and relations among young adults’ levels of empathy, gratitude, and resilience, particularly how gender influences such relations. Participants were 214 Polish self-identified females and males’ young adults, who completed self-report measures of empathy, gratitude, and resilience. Results showed that females scored higher in empathy and gratitude than males, but males reported higher levels of resilience than females. Resilience also served as a mediator between empathy and gratitude and this differed according to self-identified gender. Implications for gendered developmental research in social cognition are discussed.

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Empathy, Gratitude, and Resilience – Does Gender Make a Difference?

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“…Personal gratitude is the person's sense of being thankful to the world or specific individuals who have either assisted or provided ease to that person (Mercon-Vargas et al, 2018;Tudge & Freitas, 2018).Transpersonal gratitude, on contrast, referred to the gratitude that extended beyond the personal gratitude (Artinian, 2019;Elfers & Hlava, 2016). It comprised of four major domains; expression of gratitude (i.e., recognition that someone has benefit you by going out of their way motivates to express gratitude towards them), value of gratitude (i.e., expression of gratitude enhances interpersonal relationships), transcendent gratitude (i.e., feeling a benefit outside of oneself such as blessings and opportunities), and spiritual connection (i.e., attribution of benefit as coming from divine which result to experience sense of connection to divine presence) (Hlava, Elfers, & Offringa, 2014).…”

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Transpersonal Gratitude, Emotional Intelligence, Life Contentment, and Mental Health Risk Among Adolescents and Young Adults

Namood-e-Sahar¹

2020

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World statistics demonstrate that around 970 million people around the globe suffer from mental health problems (Ritchie & Roser, 2019), a major proportion of which comprised of adolescents and young adults (UNODC, 2018). Also, because of increased mental health issues the problems like substance use, suicide, depression, anxiety, and stress are also increasing (Armstrong, 2019; Bandelow & Michaelis, 2015; Ritchie & Roser, 2018; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime [UNODC], 2019). It is thus a dire need to address the issue. The present coneptual paper proposed the role of transpersonal gratitude, emotional intelligence, and life contentment for reducing mental health risk among the adolescents and young adults.

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“…The result is that conceptual confusion about the meaning of gratitude is rife (Carr 2013;Gulliford et al 2013;Merçon-Vargas et al 2018;Tudge and Freitas 2018). Fagley (2016) pointed out that one of the conceptual confusions is with appreciation, a much broader construct than gratitude.…”

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Assessing variations in the expression of gratitude in youth: A three-cohort replication in southern Brazil

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Children are not born grateful; their understanding and expression of gratitude develops during childhood and adolescence. We used a qualitative measure designed to assess how youth would respond to a benefactor, hypothesizing that their types of responses would systematically alter with age, and were able to test the reliability of this measure via replication across three cohorts. Participants (N = 1101) aged 7 to 14 constituted three independent cohorts (2008, 2012, and 2015-2017) from the same southern Brazilian city. Participants' responses were reliably coded into three types of gratitude (verbal, concrete, and connective); across samples, older youth were more likely to express verbal and connective gratitude; younger youth were more likely to express concrete gratitude. The age-related patterns of expression were very similar in each of the three samples (one discrepant result from nine possible), suggesting that it is a reliable measure with which to assess age-related changes in the expression of youth gratitude. Gratitude, we suggest, is not simply a unidimensional construct allowing judgments of how grateful individuals are; instead, our research suggests that youth of different ages express different types of gratitude, increasingly more complex, the most sophisticated of which comes closest to gratitude as a virtue.

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The Development of the Virtue of Gratitude: Theoretical Foundations and Cross-Cultural Issues

Cited by 49 publications

References 57 publications

Empathy, Gratitude, and Resilience – Does Gender Make a Difference?

Empathy, Gratitude, and Resilience – Does Gender Make a Difference?

Transpersonal Gratitude, Emotional Intelligence, Life Contentment, and Mental Health Risk Among Adolescents and Young Adults

Assessing variations in the expression of gratitude in youth: A three-cohort replication in southern Brazil

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