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      Using Gratitude to Promote Positive Change: A Series of Meta-Analyses Investigating the Effectiveness of Gratitude Interventions

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      Basic and Applied Social Psychology
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          Becoming happier takes both a will and a proper way: an experimental longitudinal intervention to boost well-being.

          An 8-month-long experimental study examined the immediate and longer term effects of regularly practicing two assigned positive activities (expressing optimism and gratitude) on well-being. More important, this intervention allowed us to explore the impact of two metafactors that are likely to influence the success of any positive activity: whether one self-selects into the study knowing that it is about increasing happiness and whether one invests effort into the activity over time. Our results indicate that initial self-selection makes a difference, but only in the two positive activity conditions, not the control, and that continued effort also makes a difference, but, again, only in the treatment conditions. We conclude that happiness interventions are more than just placebos, but that they are most successful when participants know about, endorse, and commit to the intervention. PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved
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            Counting blessings in early adolescents: an experimental study of gratitude and subjective well-being.

            The development and manifestation of gratitude in youth is unclear. We examined the effects of a grateful outlook on subjective well-being and other outcomes of positive psychological functioning in 221 early adolescents. Eleven classes were randomly assigned to either a gratitude, hassles, or control condition. Results indicated that counting blessings was associated with enhanced self-reported gratitude, optimism, life satisfaction, and decreased negative affect. Feeling grateful in response to aid mediated the relationship between experimental condition and general gratitude at the 3-week follow-up. The most significant finding was the robust relationship between gratitude and satisfaction with school experience at both the immediate post-test and 3-week follow-up. Counting blessings seems to be an effective intervention for well-being enhancement in early adolescents.
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              How to increase and sustain positive emotion: The effects of expressing gratitude and visualizing best possible selves

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                Journal
                Basic and Applied Social Psychology
                Basic and Applied Social Psychology
                Informa UK Limited
                0197-3533
                1532-4834
                June 29 2017
                July 04 2017
                May 30 2017
                July 04 2017
                : 39
                : 4
                : 193-208
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Northeastern University
                Article
                10.1080/01973533.2017.1323638
                8193e511-e6c2-47d3-8cc6-33ab235260d3
                © 2017
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