Gratitude and well-being: a review and theoretical integration.

By Alex M. Wood, Jeffrey J. Froh, Adam W. A. Geraghty. Clinical Psychology Review, 2010

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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The added value of the positive: A literature review of positive psychology interventions in organizations (2013, methodology): “(2010), who focused on well-being only (Mazzucchelli et al., 2010; Wood et al., 2010), on well-being and depression (Sin & Lyubomirsky, 2009), or on wellbeing and illness (Mitchell et al.”
Grateful recounting enhances subjective well-being: The importance of grateful processing (2015, background): “First, few of the previous experimental studies used control groups whereby we could conclude that gratitude was actually enhancing well-being (Wood et al., 2010).”
Predicting Job Satisfaction: Contributions of Individual Gratitude and Institutionalized Gratitude (2012, background): “The intra-personal processes that link dispositional and state gratitude to job satisfaction are likely to be the cognitive and emotional mechanisms listed above such as the broaden and build process, the gratitude-coping link and the grateful schema (Wood et al., 2010).”
Can Gratitude and Kindness Interventions Enhance Well-Being in a Clinical Sample? (2015, background): “Growing evidence attests to the positive effects of gratitude interventions on psychological health (Bolier et al. 2013; Wood et al. 2010).”
Why are materialists less happy? The role of gratitude and need satisfaction in the relationship between materialism and life satisfaction. (2014, result): “To a certain extent this is not surprising, given the robust relationship between gratitude and various indices of well-being in past research (Wood et al., 2010).”
Review of Brief School-Based Positive Psychological Interventions: a Taster for Teachers and Educators (2017, background): “…of gratitude have underlined a number of positive outcomes on individual and collective well-being (Seligman et al. 2009; Seligman et al. 2005; Wood et al. 2009, 2010), as well as benefits on specific academic variables such as school satisfaction (Froh et al. 2008) and academic achievement…”
Integrating Positive and Clinical Psychology: Viewing Human Functioning as Continua from Positive to Negative Can Benefit Clinical Assessment, Interventions and Understandings of Resilience (2017, background): “For example, can one say that the ‘‘positive’’ construct of gratitude protects from the ‘‘negative’’ construct of depression? Strictly one cannot, as gratitude is continuous with ingratitude and depression is continuous with positive functioning (Wood et al. 2010) so neither can be termed as positiv”
Why do people prefer gratitude journaling over gratitude letters? The influence of individual differences in motivation and personality on web-based interventions (2015, background): “Despite the impressive efficacy of gratitude interventions to increase well-being (Huffman et al., 2014; Wood et al., 2010), change will only be elicited if people can be motivated to take the first step and experiment with new behavior strategies.”
Workplace happiness, well-being and their relationship with psychological capital: A study of Hungarian Teachers (2019, background): “Workplace positive psychology interventions are relatively few in number and many previous studies have not focused much on what individuals can do to enhance their own well-being themselves (Sin and Lyubomirsky 2009; Wood et al. 2010; Mazzucchelli et al. 2010).”
Social desirability bias in self-reported well-being measures: evidence from an online survey (2017, result): “…by the respondents as a pro-social and altruistic disposition that is culturally agreeable, as suggested by previous research (Bono, Emmons, & McCullough, 2004; Emmons & Crumpler, 2000; Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, & Schkade, 2005; Watkins, 2004; Wood et al., 2010; Wood, Joseph, & Linley, 2007).”
Using Gratitude to Promote Positive Change: A Series of Meta-Analyses Investigating the Effectiveness of Gratitude Interventions (2017, background): “Wood, Froh, and Geraghty (2010) called into question whether researchers are making bolder statements than they should.”