Gratitude in intermediate affective terrain: links of grateful moods to individual differences and daily emotional experience.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.86.2.295

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Gratitude in intermediate affective terrain: links of grateful moods to individual differences and daily emotional experience.

Published Feb 1, 2004 · M. McCullough, Jo-Ann Tsang, Robert A Emmons

Journal of personality and social psychology

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Abstract

Two studies were conducted to explore gratitude in daily mood and the relationships among various affective manifestations of gratitude. In Study 1, spiritual transcendence and a variety of positive affective traits were related to higher mean levels of gratitude across 21 days. Study 2 replicated these findings and revealed that on days when people had more grateful moods than was typical for them, they also reported more frequent daily episodes of grateful emotions, more intense gratitude per episode, and more people to whom they were grateful than was typical for them. In addition, gratitude as an affective trait appeared to render participants' grateful moods somewhat resistant to the effects of discrete emotional episodes of gratitude.

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what's the effects of gratitude

Gratitude leads to more frequent daily episodes of grateful emotions, more intense gratitude per episode, and more people to whom they are grateful than typical.

Study Snapshot

Gratitude as an affective trait is linked to increased daily episodes of grateful emotions, more intense gratitude per episode, and more people to whom one is grateful than usual.

PopulationOlder adults (50-71 years)

Sample size24

MethodsObservational

OutcomesBody Mass Index projections

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Gratitude in intermediate affective terrain: links of grateful moods to individual differences and daily emotional experience.

Gratitude leads to more frequent daily episodes of grateful emotions, more intense gratitude per episode, and more people to whom they are grateful than typical.

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