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A social-cognitive model of trait and state levels of gratitude.
No full textThree studies tested a new model of gratitude, which specified the generative mechanisms linking individual differences (trait gratitude) and objective situations with the amount of gratitude people experience after receiving aid (state gratitude). In Study 1, all participants (N = 253) read identical vignettes describing a situation in which they received help. People higher in trait gratitude made more positive beneficial appraisals (seeing the help as more valuable, more costly to provide, and more altruistically intended), which fully mediated the relationship between trait and state levels of gratitude. Study 2 (N = 113) replicated the findings using a daily process study in which participants reported on real events each day for up to14 days. In Study 3, participants (N = 200) read vignettes experimentally manipulating objective situations to be either high or low in benefit. Benefit appraisals were shown to have a causal effect on state gratitude and to mediate the relationship between different prosocial situations and state gratitude. The 3 studies demonstrate the critical role of benefit appraisals in linking state gratitude with trait gratitude and the objective situation
Trauma, recovery, and growth : positive psychological perspectives on posttraumatic stress/ Edit.: Stephen Joseph; P. Alex Linley
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Chronicles of the Cariboo: Dunlevy's Discovery of Gold on the Horsefly:
No full textwritten by Alex P. McInnes.Being a true story of the first discovery of gold in the Cariboo District on the Horsefly River by Peter C. Dunlevey
Group‐Based Therapies for Benefit Finding in Cancer
No full textThis chapter contains sections titled:
Interventions and Benefit Finding
Influence of Sociodemographic and Disease‐Related Characteri Stics in a Group Setting
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Coping style as a psychological resource of grateful people
No full textWe examined whether gratitude was correlated with distinct coping styles, and whether coping styles mediated the relationship between gratitude and well-being. Participants (n = 236) completed measures of coping styles, dispositional gratitude, and measures of well-being. Gratitude correlated positively with seeking both emotional and instrumental social support, positive reinterpretation and growth, active coping, and planning. Gratitude correlated negatively with behavioural disengagement, self-blame, substance use, and denial. Coping styles mediated up to 51% of the relationship between gratitude and stress, but did not substantially mediate the relationship between gratitude and either happiness, depression, or satisfaction with life. We suggest that different mechanisms relate gratitude to separate aspects of well-being. Further research is indicated into the role of gratitude in social support processes, and in growth following adversity
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