The Enhancing and Intermediating Effects of a Gratitude Course among Nursing Students

Abstract

A partially investigational study, this paper is aimed at determining the effects of a gratitude course on nursing undergraduates' gratitude temperament and subjective satisfaction. It was conducted among 54 freshmen and sophomores majoring in nursing, with a six-session gratitude program applied to the experimental group. At this juncture, gratitude temperament and subjective happiness improved significantly after the program was run, and gratitude disposition carried on throughout the six months after the program. Concisely, a gratitude program contributes to an improvement in gratitude disposition and subjective happiness in nursing students.

Analysis of Lecturers’ and Students’ Needs Toward Intercultural Learning Material for Drama Subject

“…it is also because there is no intercultural learning comprehension and material development for this context. Actually, there are some studies that investigated intercultural learning model in teaching and learning process such as developing intercultural communicative competences in English language [13][14][15][16][17][19][20][21][22][23][24], Intercultural approach in language teaching [25,26] a learning model of bahasa indonesia as foreign language based on local intracultural learning [27] Assesment of intracultural compentencies learning [28] strategies facilitate intercultural learning [29], intercultural awareness [30,31] and multiperspective model for intercultural [32,33]. These previous studies shows that developing of intercultural learning model in language teaching and how the researchers design some approachs in intercultural learning.…”

The Implied Meaning of Thanking Expressions in Students’ Drama Performance: “The Pursuit of Happyness “Drama

“…But, it can be categorized as acknowledging a major favor because the hearer has benefited from the speaker. In this case, not all of these expressions can be categorized as acknowledging the major favor, such as irony or apologizing (Faqe, Jbrael, & Muhammad, 2019;Hong & Song*, 2020;Meiramova & Kulzhanova, 2015) Besides, thanking means apologizing in one conversation, like a drama performance. Algoe, Fredrickson, & Gable (2013) argue that there is a social function of the emotion of gratitude via expression that is influenced the gender, society, and the setting of communication.…”