The grateful disposition: a conceptual and empirical topography.

By M. McCullough, Robert A Emmons, Jo-Ann Tsang. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2002

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Religiosity and consumer behavior: a summarizing review (2019, background): “Prayer can include components like expressing gratitude, praise, and thanks-giving (Emmons and Paloutzian 2003), which positively affect people’s daily mood (McCullough, Emmons, and Tsang 2002) and help in energizing, inspiring, and alleviating them (Vasconcelos 2010).”
Coping style as a psychological resource of grateful people. (2007, methodology): “…there is considerable evidence regarding the pro–social basis of the grateful emotion (McCullough et al., 2001; Tesser et al., 1968; Tsang, 2006), the current study provides some of the earliest support for the pro–social basis of the grateful disposition (as suggested by McCullough et al., 2002).”
Why do people prefer gratitude journaling over gratitude letters? The influence of individual differences in motivation and personality on web-based interventions (2015, methodology): “Dispositional gratitude was measured with the Gratitude Questionnaire-6 (McCullough et al., 2002) that requires answers on a scale from 1 = ‘‘strongly disagree’’ to 7 ‘‘strongly agree’’ to six items, e.”
Gratitude in intermediate affective terrain: links of grateful moods to individual differences and daily emotional experience. (2004, methodology): “For the 3 individuals who did not, we imputed values for their GQ-6 scores using the expectation–maximization routine.”
Pay It Forward: Gratitude in Social Networks (2011, methodology): “For instance, McCullough et al. (2002) found that people who scored higher on a self- and peer-report gratitude measurement also exhibited higher scores on a helping behavior measurement.”
How to increase and sustain positive emotion: The effects of expressing gratitude and visualizing best possible selves (2006, background): “Finally, the practice of gratitude is likely incompatible with negative emotions, and thus may inhibit feelings of envy, bitterness, anger, or greed (McCullough, Emmons, & Tsang, 2002 ).”
The impact of gratitude on depression and anxiety: the mediating role of criticizing, attacking, and reassuring the self (2016, methodology): “The Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6; McCullough et al., 2002; Italian adaptation by ruini and Vescovelli, 2013) is a six-item self-report questionnaire that was used to assess participants’ proneness to experience gratitude in daily life.”
Subjective correlates and consequences of belief in free will (2016, background): “, 2001), and the Gratitude Questionnaire-6 (GQ6; McCullough et al., 2002).”
The Working for Wellness Program: RCT of an Employee Well-Being Intervention (2012, background): “gratitude and kindness are often actualized through interactions with others, which in turn can enhance well-being (McCullough et al. 2002; Otake et al. 2006).”
Validation of the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ) in Taiwanese Undergraduate Students (2009, methodology): “In doing so, a more complete picture of gratitude as a human strength can be painted, as most published studies today are based on western samples (e.g., McCullough et al. 2002; Wood et al. 2008a, c). Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigative the validity and cross-validity of the GQ wi”
Indigenous and Cultural Psychology: Understanding People in Context (2007, background): “There is growing evidence to suggest that fostering positive virtue such as mindfulness, empathy, gratitude, and forgiveness may buffer stress and enhance well-being (Emmons and McCullough 2003; Grossman et al. 2004; Linehan et al. 2006; McCraty et al. 1998; McCullough et al. 2002).”
Applicability of the Dual-Factor Model of Mental Health for College Students (2010, background): “The Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6) is a six-item self-report measure designed to assess individual differences in the proneness to experience gratitude in daily life (McCullough et al., 2002).”
Conceptualizing gratitude and appreciation as a unitary personality trait (2008, neutral): “Three measures of gratitude and appreciation have been developed: the unidimensional GQ6 (McCullough et al., 2002), the multidimensional Appreciation Scale (Adler & Fagley, 2005), and the multidimensional GRAT (Watkins et al.”