Gratitude as a Human Strength: Appraising the Evidence

By Robert A Emmons, Cheryl A. Crumpler. 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Gratitude predicts psychological well-being above the Big Five facets (2009, background): “The study provided the first indication that gratitude is related to a full range of PWB variables, supporting theoretical positions that gratitude is related to a life that is meaningful rather than simply hedonistically pleasant (Emmons & Crumpler, 2000).”
Gratitude uniquely predicts satisfaction with life: Incremental validity above the domains and facets of the five factor model (2008, unknown): “Conceptually, trait gratitude should be strongly related to satisfaction with life (SWL) (Bono, Emmons, & McCullough, 2004; Emmons & Crumpler, 2000; Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, & Schkade, 2005; Watkins, 2004; Wood, Joseph, & Linley, 2007b).”
Why are materialists less happy? The role of gratitude and need satisfaction in the relationship between materialism and life satisfaction. (2014, background): “Gratitude is a positive emotion that is experienced when people perceive that they have a received a valued benefit (Emmons & Crumpler, 2000; McCullough, Kilpatrick, Emmons, & Larson, 2001; Tsang, 2007).”
The Amplifying and Buffering Effects of Virtuousness in Downsized Organizations (2006, background): “The manifestation and consequences of individual virtues such as hope, gratitude, wisdom, forgiveness, courage, and other similar virtues have received increasing attention in the psychological literature (Emmons and Crumpler, 2000; McCullough et al., 2000; Seligman, 2002a, b; Snyder, 2000; Sternber”
Gratitude in intermediate affective terrain: links of grateful moods to individual differences and daily emotional experience. (2004, background): “In the same vein, Emmons and Crumpler (2000) wrote, “Minimally, gratitude is an emotional response to a gift.”
Can Gratitude and Kindness Interventions Enhance Well-Being in a Clinical Sample? (2015, background): “Gratitude may also enhance optimism, connectedness with others, meaning in life, motivational drive, empathy, strategic planning abilities, strengthened spirituality and faithfulness, and resilience and coping during adversity (Emmons and Crumpler 2000; Emmons and Shelton 2002; Kashdan et al. 2006; ”
THEORY: "Sacred Matters: Sanctification as a Vital Topic for the Psychology of Religion" (2005, background): “…are beginning to focus on a variety of emotions that are deeply rooted in religion and spirituality, including elevation and awe (Haidt & Keltner, 2004), gratitude (e.g., Emmons & Crumpler, 2000), humility (e.g., Tangney, 2000), love (e.g., Levin, 2000), and felt obligation (Stein, 1992).”
Appreciation: individual differences in finding value and meaning as a unique predictor of subjective well-being. (2005, methodology): “Although Emmons and Crumpler (2000) discussed gratitude as having a relation to indebtedness by saying ‘‘to be genuinely grateful is to feel indebted for a debt that can never be repaid’’ (p. 58), McCullough, Kilpatrick, Emmons, and Larson (2001) argued that gratitude is conceptually distinct from i”
Conceptualizing gratitude and appreciation as a unitary personality trait (2008, unknown): “Within psychology, however, the study of gratitude has only attracted focused attention within the last five years (Emmons & Crumpler, 2000; Wood, Joseph, & Linley, 2007a), with research showing gratitude to be strongly related to well-being (e.g., Adler & Fagley, 2005; McCullough, Emmons, & Tsang,…”
Can prayer increase gratitude (2009, background): “First, most world religions promote gratitude as a desirable attribute (Carman & Streng, 1989; Emmons & Crumpler, 2000); thus, more religious individuals may actively seek to cultivate gratitude.”
Why Gratitude Enhances Well-Being: What We Know, What We Need to Know (2010, background): “Many world religions commend gratitude as a desirable human trait (see Carman & Streng, 1989 ; Emmons & Crumpler, 2000 ), which may cause spiritual or religious people to adopt a grateful outlook.”