Gratitude (GQ-6)
Psychology: Personality1 sample item
About this scale
Gratitude is a "generalized tendency to recognize and respond with grateful emotion to the roles of other people’s benevolence in the positive experiences and outcomes that one obtains" (McCullough et al., 2002). The study of gratitude is a good example of a topic in the area of positive psychology . According to the influential study by McCullough et al. (2002), the following can be concluded about grateful people:
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Source & citation
McCullough, M. E., Emmons, R. A., & Tsang, J. (2002). The grateful disposition: A conceptual and empirical topography. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82 , 112- 127. | A scoring sheet with some extra information which can be retrieved from Emmons' lab .
Gratitude
positive psychology
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