The Blessings of Gratitude: A Conceptual Analysis.

By Robert C. Roberts. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy

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The Role of Customer Gratitude in Relationship Marketing (2009, background): “Thus, when customers perceive RM investments as an act of free will, they feel more grateful than when they perceive the actions as duty-based obligations or contractual requirements (Gouldner 1960; Malhotra and Murnighan 2002; Roberts 2004).”
How Gratitude Influences Well-Being: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach (2013, result): “This conclusion is in line with the ﬁndings that, over time, gratitude leads to a higher level of social support (e.g., Roberts 2004; Seligman et al. 2005; Wood et al. 2008).”
Gratitude and Well‐Being: Who Benefits the Most from a Gratitude Intervention? (2011, background): “Roberts (2004) refers to such experiences as episodic gratitude, and describes it as an acute, intense, and brief physiological change that co-occurs with feelings of gladness.”
Gratitude for small and large favors: A behavioral test (2007, background): “The hypothesis regarding value is particularly intuitive: People should feel more gratitude for larger favors (Berger, 1975; McCullough et al., 2001; Roberts, 2004).”
A daily diary study of relationships between feelings of gratitude and well-being (2017, background): “Although researchers have found it is useful to treat gratitude as a disposition, we believe that gratitude also has an important state component (e.g. Roberts, 2004).”
Why Gratitude Enhances Well-Being: What We Know, What We Need to Know (2010, background): “It is likely that the dispositionally grateful have a fi rewall of protection against incapacitating regrets because they are inclined to dwell on the favorable, rather than the regrettable, in life (Roberts, 2004 ).”
The debt of gratitude: Dissociating gratitude and indebtedness (2006, background): “It seems worthwhile to investigate this form of indebtedness as well, although some may argue that this is the essence of gratitude (e.g., Roberts, 2004).”
Gratitude in relationship marketing: : Theoretical development and directions for future research (2014, background): “Roberts (2004) suggests that intentionality is”
Can prayer increase gratitude (2009, background): “Gratitude is typically described by researchers as the state that follows after a desired benefit is received from another person who is perceived as intentionally giving the benefit (Roberts, 2004).”
More gratitude, less materialism: The mediating role of life satisfaction (2009, background): “Given Roberts’ (2004) argument that envy is the opposite of gratitude, we decided it would be an effective foil for the high gratitude condition so that we would essentially be measuring two ends of a spectrum.”
Gratitude predicts hope and happiness: A two-study assessment of traits and states (2019, background): “Gratitude occurs when understanding oneself to be the beneficiary of a benefice, particularly if one perceives that it was intended as benevolent by the benefactor (Roberts, 2004).”