The debt of gratitude: Dissociating gratitude and indebtedness

By P. Watkins, J. Scheer, Melinda Ovnicek, Russell Kolts. 2006

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Gratitude for small and large favors: A behavioral test (2007, background): “Other research on gratitude has also found ceiling effects with self-reported gratitude (Watkins, Scheer, Ovnicek, & Kolts, 2006 ).”
Looking at me, appreciating you: Self-focused attention distinguishes between gratitude and indebtedness (2010, background): “Hypothesis 1: Gratitude and indebtedness will correlate negatively, replicating previous findings (Watkins et al., 2006).”
Gratitude and Adolescent Athletes’ Well-Being (2008, methodology): “Previous studies that utilized the English version GQ also found that the instrument is reliable and valid (e.g., Giacalone et al. 2005; Kashdan et al. 2006; McCullough et al. 2004; Watkins et al. 2006 ).”
Attributing autonomous versus introjected motivation to helpers and the recipient experience: Effects on gratitude, attitudes, and well-being (2010, background): “ Watkins et al. (2006) used cost to benefactor to manipulate recipients’ feelings of gratitude and indebtedness.”
Conceptualizing gratitude and appreciation as a unitary personality trait (2008, neutral): “The scale is occasionally referred to by Watkins et al. (2003) as ‘resentment’ (reverse coded), and more research is needed into the relation between resentment and gratitude, i.”
It's the little things: Everyday gratitude as a booster shot for romantic relationships (2010, methodology): “help to lay the groundwork for new relationships, which can begin from an exchange orientation? Or does indebtedness always simply maintain the status quo, leaving little opportunity for relationship growth, as witnessed in the current study? Previous evidence only speaks to violations of communal n”
Gratitude, gratitude intervention and subjective well‐being among Chinese school teachers in Hong Kong (2010, result): “Perhaps, the enhancement of the feelings of gratitude has also induced heightened feelings of indebtedness, which might be more negative, as reflected in the similar increase in the outcome measure of negative affect (see, eg, Watkins, Scheer, Ovnicek, & Kolts, 2006 ).”
Validation of the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ) in Taiwanese Undergraduate Students (2009, positive): “Previous studies utilizing the English version GQ-6 also found that the instrument possesses good psychometric properties (e.g., Giacalone et al. 2005; Kashdan et al. 2006; McCullough et al. 2004; Watkins et al. 2006 ).”
An Adaptation for Altruism (2008, background): “Conversely, the greater one’s indebtedness, the greater one’s distress and desire to avoid the benefactor (Watkins et al., 2006).”
Find, Remind, and Bind: The Functions of Gratitude in Everyday Relationships (2012, background): “…a wide range of measures, including perceived closeness (Weinstein et al., 2010) and ‘‘thinking positive thoughts or happy memories about my friend’’ (Watkins et al., 2006), which provide additional support for hypothesized links between experienced gratitude and improvements in the grateful…”
The Effects of Helper Intention on Gratitude and Indebtedness (2006, background): “thanks. Although some research has linked gratitude and indebtedness to thought and action tendencies ( Watkins et al., 2006 ), there are currently no studies that assess differences between gratitude and indebtedness in the frequency and magnitude of behavioral reciprocation for favors.”