The role of gratitude in the development of social support, stress, and depression : two longitudinal studies

By Alex M. Wood, John Maltby, Raphael Gillett, P. Alex Linley, S. Joseph. 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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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, Mal”
Gratitude uniquely predicts satisfaction with life: Incremental validity above the domains and facets of the five factor model (2008, background): “This paper is part of a growing research area which shows that gratitude is integral to SWL (e.g., Emmons & McCullough, 2003; McCullough et al., 2002, 2004; Park et al., 2004; Wood et al., 2007a).”
Can prayer increase gratitude (2009, background): “Gratitude has been shown to predict more prosocial behavior (McCullough, Kilpatrick, Emmons, & Larson, 2001), a greater sense of coherence (i.e., perception of one’s life as comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful; Lambert, Graham, & Fincham, 2009), greater perceived communal strengths (Lambert, ”
Transitioning From High School to College (2013, background): “…examined the direction of relations among dispositional gratitude, perceived social support, and depression and found that gratitude was associated with higher levels of perceived social support and lower levels of stress and depression during the transition to college (Wood et al., 2008).”
The Relationships Among Gratitude, Self-esteem, Social Support and Life Satisfaction Among Undergraduate Students (2014, background): “Several studies have found that social support acted as a mediator between gratitude and depression in undergraduate students, as well as between gratitude and well-being in adolescent athletes (Chen et al. 2012; Wood et al. 2008).”
Appreciation: a spiritual path to finding value and meaning in the workplace (2012, background): “( 2008 ) demonstrated that individual differences in trait gratitude predicted subsequent increases in perceived social support over time.”
What Predicts Positive Life Events that Influence the Course of Depression? A Longitudinal Examination of Gratitude and Meaning in Life (2017, background): “Longitudinal studies suggest gratitude predicts reductions in depression over four months (Wood et al. 2008).”
A critique of the cross-lagged panel model. (2015, methodology): “To give an impression of the kinds of questions researchers have tried to tackle using the CLPM, consider the following anthology: Do maternal warmth and praise reduce internalizing and externalizing problems in children with autism (Smith, Greenberg, Mailick Seltzer, & Hong, 2008)? Is the relations”
Links Between Parents’ and Children’s Levels of Gratitude, Life Satisfaction, and Hope (2013, neutral): “59 (Wood et al. 2008).”