TY - JOUR
AB - This study examined a gratitude intervention repeating Emmons and McCullough study (2003) in a Spanish sample. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions (gratitude, hassles and any event) and kept daily records during 2 weeks of gratitude, affect, quality of relationships, physical and subjective well-being. We added design features to assess the intervention long-term impact (follow-up measures), and to improve the design control (pre-treatment measures). Following the cited authors' analysis, i.e., comparing groups only in the post-test, we replicated their results, finding differences in positive affect and gratitude between the gratitude condition and the hassles condition. However, when including both the pre and the follow-up measures in the analysis, results were replicated only partially, as the difference in gratitude disappeared. Moreover, the difference in positive affect between groups in the post-test seemed to be influenced mainly by a decrease in positive affect in the hassles group. Post-test differences between groups in positive affect disappeared in the follow-up. Gratitude interventions may have an effect on well-being, but we consider other methods to promote gratitude besides gratitude journals should be tested.
TI - The Effects of Counting Blessings on Subjective Well-Being: A Gratitude Intervention in a Spanish Sample
JF - The Spanish Journal of Psychology
DO - 10.1017/S1138741600002535
DA - 2013-01-10
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/cambridge-university-press/the-effects-of-counting-blessings-on-subjective-well-being-a-gratitude-ghq2HIrUcK
SP - 886
EP - 896
VL - 13
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -