Why Gratitude Enhances Well-Being: What We Know, What We Need to Know

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Gratitude and health: An updated review (2019, background): “Around 2010, several reviews appeared that evaluated the contribution of gratitude to mental and physical health (Emmons & Mishra, 2011; Wood, Froh, & Geraghty, 2010).”
Functions of Positive Emotions: Gratitude as a Motivator of Self-Improvement and Positive Change (2017, background): “Gratitude, therefore, requires people to acknowledge that their good fortune is attributable to someone else and is most often directed towards another individual (Emmons & Mishra, 2011) or abstract, nonperson entity (Emmons & McCullough, 2003).”
Gratitude and Subjective Wellbeing: A Proposal of Two Causal Frameworks (2017, background): “In addition to interpreting external stimuli or situations in a more positive fashion, experiencing high levels of trait gratitude may be similarly associated with positive internalized self-perceptions and higher self-esteem (Emmons and Mishra 2011).”
Predicting Job Satisfaction: Contributions of Individual Gratitude and Institutionalized Gratitude (2012, background): “The causal mechanisms that link gratitude to well-being such as the broaden and build process, the gratitude-coping link and the grateful schema (Emmons & Anjali, 2011) are all likely to operate within the workplace and are, thus, likely to link dispositional gratitude with indicators of wellbeing.”