Abstract. Since workers are increasingly suffering from burnout, there is a need for insights into how burnout can be decreased to improve subjective well-being. The broaden-and-build theory proposes that gratitude increases well-being through an upward spiral. Few studies have examined whether decreases and what mediating behaviors explain this relationship. Using international sample of emplo...

Abstract For athletes, gratitude has received substantial attention because it promotes their optimal functioning both in the sport domain specifically and everyday life generally. The literature has, however, been equivocal as to whether is domain-general gratitude—from top-down perspective—or domain-specific bottom-up perspective—that comes first directs other. Clarifying relationship importa...

Gratitude, a positive response to receiving a benefit, may contribute more to youth than just momentary happiness. It may ignite in youth a motivation for ‘‘upstream generativity’’ whereby its experience contributes to a desire to give back to their neighborhood, community, and world. We tested this notion by longitudinally examining early adolescents’ gratitude and their social integration, or...

The ability of the emotion gratitude to shape costly prosocial behavior was examined in three studies employing interpersonal emotion inductions and requests for assistance. Study 1 demonstrated that gratitude increases efforts to assist a benefactor evenwhen such efforts are costly (i.e., hedonically negative), and that this increase differs from the effects of a general positive affective sta...

Although positive emotions as a class can build interpersonal resources, recent evidence suggests a unique and direct role for gratitude. In the current research, we shine the spotlight on what happens between a grateful person and the benefactor to illuminate what can build a bridge between them. Specifically, we draw on work calling gratitude an “other-praising” emotion. In an original study ...