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ADDING COMPLEXITY TO THE GRATITUDE-AFFECT RELATIONSHIP:
DEEPER IMPERSONAL GRATITUDE LEADS TO MORE CONTENTMENT
by
Ravi Iyer
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PSYCHOLOGY)
May 2010
Copyright 2010 Ravi Iyer
Object Description
| Title | Adding complexity to the gratitude-affect relationship: deeper impersonal gratitude leads to more contentment |
| Author | Iyer, Ravi |
| Author email | raviiyer@usc.edu; ravi@aboutmyjob.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-11-11 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-02-01 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Read, Stephen |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Monterosso, John Walsh, David |
| Abstract | Gratitude exercises can have hedonic benefits, but observed effects have differed in terms of intensity and duration. These differences could be due to qualitative differences in how gratitude exercises have been operationalized and in how well-being has been measured between studies. The present online gratitude study randomly assigned participants to perform weekly gratitude exercises varied along one of three dimensions. These dimensions included personalization (being thankful to someone versus being generally thankful), depth of writing (writing five sentences versus one sentence), and number of things one is grateful for (five versus one). Increases in well being were measured using a balance of activated and deactivated emotions, derived from Feldman-Barrett & Russell (1998). Results indicated that being more grateful (about one or several things) generally led to greater affective rewards but only in cases where gratitude was not directed at a person. As well, gratitude exercises may have more pronounced effects on the negative activated/positive deactivated axis of emotions. |
| Keyword | gratitude; happiness interventions; subjective well being; gratitude journals; positive psychology |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2821 |
| Rights | Iyer, Ravi |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Iyer-3333 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume56/etd-Iyer-3333.pdf |
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| Full text | ADDING COMPLEXITY TO THE GRATITUDE-AFFECT RELATIONSHIP: DEEPER IMPERSONAL GRATITUDE LEADS TO MORE CONTENTMENT by Ravi Iyer A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PSYCHOLOGY) May 2010 Copyright 2010 Ravi Iyer |
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