Burnout and life satisfaction: does gratitude intervention make a difference among Chinese school teachers in Hong Kong?

By D. Chan. 2011

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Gratitude and health: An updated review (2019, methodology): “Characteristics of emotional well-being are feelings of happiness joy, and contentment (Diener, 2000).”
Teachers’ occupational attributes and their psychological wellbeing, job satisfaction, occupational self-concept and quitting intentions (2018, background): “In turn, emotional characteristics such as hope and gratitude to some extent predict teachers’ life satisfaction (Chan, 2009, 2011, 2013), showing the complex interrelations among teacher self-efficacy, job/life satisfaction, and feelings of burnout.”
Using Gratitude to Promote Positive Change: A Series of Meta-Analyses Investigating the Effectiveness of Gratitude Interventions (2017, result): “Studies that investigated changes only from preintervention to postintervention, with no separate comparison group, were excluded, as were those comparing two gratitude interventions (Chan, 2010, 2011; Chen 2011; Killen & Macaskill, 2014; Silberman, 2007).”
Assessing Employee Wellbeing in Schools Using a Multifaceted Approach: Associations with Physical Health, Life Satisfaction, and Professional Thriving (2014, background): “Studies have reliably found different associations for negative versus positive variables, but Diener and Chan (2011) explicitly noted that different types of wellbeing “have not been clearly differentiated or measured in most research” (p. 26), making it impossible to know what is most beneficial…”