Conceptualizing gratitude and appreciation as a unitary personality trait

By Alex M. Wood, John Maltby, Neil Stewart, S. Joseph. 2008

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Authentic Personality: A Theoretical and Empirical Conceptualization and the Development of the Authenticity Scale (2008, methodology): “The Gratitude Questionnaire-6 has been shown to correlate with well-being largely independently of the Big Five, social desirability, and coping styles (McCullough et al., 2002; Wood, Joseph, & Linley, 2007; Wood, Maltby, Stewart, & Joseph, 2008 ), and to have high test–retest reliability (Wood, Ma”
Integrating Positive and Clinical Psychology: Viewing Human Functioning as Continua from Positive to Negative Can Benefit Clinical Assessment, Interventions and Understandings of Resilience (2017, background): “Authenticity (Wood et al., 2008) has also been studied as a resilience factor, and has been found to buffer the association between low social support and depressive symptoms in adolescent females (Theran, 2010).”
Gratitude and health: An updated review (2019, background): “Wood et al. (2008) showed in their research that the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ6: McCullough, Emmons, & Tsang, 2002), the subscales of the Short Gratitude, Resentment, and Appreciation Test (SGRAT: Thomas & Watkins, 2003), and the subscales of the Appreciation Scale (Fagley & Adler, 2012) all…”
Gratitude uniquely predicts satisfaction with life: Incremental validity above the domains and facets of the five factor model (2008, background): “Gratitude is increasingly being seen as a trait which is a major aspect of well-being ( Wood, Maltby, Stewart, & Joseph, 2008 ).”
The role of gratitude in the development of social support, stress, and depression : two longitudinal studies (2008, unknown): “Gratitude is associated with making positive attributions (Wood et al., 2008; Wood, Maltby, Stewart , & Linley et al., in press), and these attributions may protect people from becoming stressed and depressed, particularly during turbulent life events.”
Gratitude predicts psychological well-being above the Big Five facets (2009, background): “In the only previous study to show that gratitude is related to any variable above the effects of the Big Five facets, Wood et al. (2008) showed that gratitude has an unique relationship with satisfaction with life.”
Letters of Gratitude: Further Evidence for Author Benefits (2012, background): “These favorable qualities are typically emotional expressions directed toward an external agency or entity following perceived aid from that source which is interpreted as costly, valuable, and altruistically intended (Lane and Anderson 1976; Tesser et al. 1968; Wood et al. 2008a; b).”