2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2007.11.003
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The role of gratitude in the development of social support, stress, and depression: Two longitudinal studies

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“…For example, exercises on gratitude-the gratitude letter and counting blessings-had high utility scores and were associated with substantial improvements in optimism. This finding is consistent with prior work that has linked gratitude to lower levels of depression, hopelessness and suicidal thoughts/attempts [13,[52][53][54][55][56], though is in some contrast to a study that found a gratitude letter to reduce depressive symptoms in mildly, but not more severely, depressed participants [57]. The exercise focusing on a personal strength was also associated with substantial improvements in this population and was perceived as easy to complete, consistent with prior work finding this exercise to be associated with prolonged improvement in depressive symptoms [19].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
“…For example, exercises on gratitude-the gratitude letter and counting blessings-had high utility scores and were associated with substantial improvements in optimism. This finding is consistent with prior work that has linked gratitude to lower levels of depression, hopelessness and suicidal thoughts/attempts [13,[52][53][54][55][56], though is in some contrast to a study that found a gratitude letter to reduce depressive symptoms in mildly, but not more severely, depressed participants [57]. The exercise focusing on a personal strength was also associated with substantial improvements in this population and was perceived as easy to complete, consistent with prior work finding this exercise to be associated with prolonged improvement in depressive symptoms [19].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
“…Gratitude relates to more positive coping strategies (broadly characterisable as more approach and less avoidance coping, combined with greater use of social support (Wood, Joseph, & Maltby, 2009), which partially mediate the relationship between gratitude and (lower) stress. During a life transition, gratitude is related to the development of less depression (Wood, Maltby, Gillett, Linley, & Joseph, 2008), and gratitude relates to less clinically impaired sleep (in both cases beyond neuroticism) (Wood, Joseph, Lloyd, & Atkins, 2009). Finally, whilst gratitude in part arises from prior distributions of rewards (Wood, Brown, & Maltby, 2011), low levels of gratitude are associated with negative schematic processing of social events (seeing aid as less valuable, less costly to the benefactor, and intended with ulterior motives; Wood, Maltby, Stewart, Linley, & Joseph, 2008).…”
Section: Symptoms Of Psychological Disordermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Dispositionally grateful individuals experience higher positive emotions, greater subjective well-being, and higher life satisfaction (Emmons & McCullough, 2003;Otake, Shimai, Tanaka-Matsumi, Otsui, & Fredrickson, 2006;Wood, Maltby, Stewart, Linley, & Joseph, 2008). Grateful individuals report lower levels of depression (Frederickson, Tugade, Waugh, & Larkin, 2003;Kendler, Liu, Gardner, McCullough, Larson, & Prescott (2003); Wood, Maltby, Gillet, Linley, & Joseph, (2008). Wood, Froh, and Geraghty (2010) reviewing the gratitude literature, report that while gratitude interventions are frequently hailed as the most successful interventions in positive psychology, many of the studies do not include adequate control groups, so their efficacy is difficult to judge.…”
Section: Gratitudementioning
confidence: 99%