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What makes you feel grateful? A qualitative study to examine gratitude-eliciting events

Although many studies focusing on benefits of gratitude, only a few researchers have looked into factors of gratitude.These studies also tend to focus on the experience of gratefulness towards others’ help but not on the more comprehensive sources of gratefulness.Therefore, the aim of the present...

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Main Authors: Yeo, Yet Phing, Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah
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Published: 2014
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spelling my.uum.repo.132382016-05-26T06:28:10Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/13238/ What makes you feel grateful? A qualitative study to examine gratitude-eliciting events Yeo, Yet Phing Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah BF Psychology Although many studies focusing on benefits of gratitude, only a few researchers have looked into factors of gratitude.These studies also tend to focus on the experience of gratefulness towards others’ help but not on the more comprehensive sources of gratefulness.Therefore, the aim of the present study is to examine all possible events or situations that can potentially elicit one’s gratefulness.Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 undergraduate students from a public university in Malaysia.The participants were asked to list down the events that could elicit their gratefulness.In addition, they were asked to indicate the most frequently occurring events and the events that elicited highest level of gratitude.The findings identified 7 domains and 25 categories (under the 7 domains) that developed from a total of 780 events reported by the participants.Findings showed that gaining something especially getting help from family would make people feel most grateful and it happens frequently.Furthermore, staying connected with people was also reported as happening frequently, which may be attributed to human’s motivation to maintain relationship with others.Moreover, individuals felt most grateful for others’ welfare and thank God for others related events.This implies that the members from collectivist culture (e.g., Malaysia) value others welfare over their own welfare.Lastly, the events were organised into a simpler version that consist of only 96 events that serve as a guideline for future researchers to develop measurement on gratitude-eliciting events.The limitations of present study and recommendations for future research were discussed. 2014-08-12 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/13238/1/47.pdf Yeo, Yet Phing and Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah (2014) What makes you feel grateful? A qualitative study to examine gratitude-eliciting events. In: International Social Development Conference 2014 (ISDC 2014), 12 – 13 August 2014, Bayview Hotel Langkawi, Malaysia. http://www.insanmaya.net/
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Yeo, Yet Phing
Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah
What makes you feel grateful? A qualitative study to examine gratitude-eliciting events
description Although many studies focusing on benefits of gratitude, only a few researchers have looked into factors of gratitude.These studies also tend to focus on the experience of gratefulness towards others’ help but not on the more comprehensive sources of gratefulness.Therefore, the aim of the present study is to examine all possible events or situations that can potentially elicit one’s gratefulness.Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 undergraduate students from a public university in Malaysia.The participants were asked to list down the events that could elicit their gratefulness.In addition, they were asked to indicate the most frequently occurring events and the events that elicited highest level of gratitude.The findings identified 7 domains and 25 categories (under the 7 domains) that developed from a total of 780 events reported by the participants.Findings showed that gaining something especially getting help from family would make people feel most grateful and it happens frequently.Furthermore, staying connected with people was also reported as happening frequently, which may be attributed to human’s motivation to maintain relationship with others.Moreover, individuals felt most grateful for others’ welfare and thank God for others related events.This implies that the members from collectivist culture (e.g., Malaysia) value others welfare over their own welfare.Lastly, the events were organised into a simpler version that consist of only 96 events that serve as a guideline for future researchers to develop measurement on gratitude-eliciting events.The limitations of present study and recommendations for future research were discussed.
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Mohd Hashim, Intan Hashimah
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title What makes you feel grateful? A qualitative study to examine gratitude-eliciting events
title_short What makes you feel grateful? A qualitative study to examine gratitude-eliciting events
title_full What makes you feel grateful? A qualitative study to examine gratitude-eliciting events
title_fullStr What makes you feel grateful? A qualitative study to examine gratitude-eliciting events
title_full_unstemmed What makes you feel grateful? A qualitative study to examine gratitude-eliciting events
title_sort what makes you feel grateful? a qualitative study to examine gratitude-eliciting events
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