Literature Review

Watkins, P. C., Woodward, K. Stone, T. and R. Kolts. 2003. “Gratitude and Happiness: Development of a Measure of Gratitude, and Relationships with Subjective Well-being.” Social Behavior Personality: An International Journal 31, no. 5: 431

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The entire idea within the context is about determining the level of trait gratitude. The author determines and evaluates some of measures that relate gratitude and the subjective well being. The work has used four studies to justify the aspect of trait gratitude and what counts to the relationship that lies behind. Those studies conclude that grateful prolongs life in so many ways.


Lee, Cameron. 2010. “Dispositional Resiliency and Adjustment in Protestant Pastors: A Pilot Study.” Pastoral Psychology  59, no. 5: 631-640.

In respect to the author, some positive benefits are as a result of pastoral role that are present in some clergy. The research was about dispositional hope and gratitude in ministry and the result that revealed from the research concluded that gratitude goes in line with those in the ministry and that some negative results from adjustment.


Lung Hung, Chen, Chen Mei-Yen, Kee Ying Hwa, and Tsai Ying-Mei. 2009. “Validation of  the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ) in Taiwanese Undergraduate Students.” Journal of Happiness Studies 10, no. 6: 655-664.

The author of the work translated and validated the gratitude questionnaire. Some individuals participated in the interview thus revealing that five item model provided valid and useful information as compared to six item model. Out of the models that were used in the study, Chinese GQ was the best in determining the level of individuals’ gratitude.


Reichhardt, Tony. 2006. “Well-being Research: A Measure of Happiness. ” Nature 444, no. 7118: 418-419.

The author of this work is determined to know all about happiness. Use of U-index has been used so as to determine what happiness entails and the approach which has been used is use of the period that people use doing activities and services that are unpleasant. Researchers have been used as the sample to test the aspect of joy that they undertake when accomplishing their task.


Bono, Giacomo, and Michael E. McCullough. 2006. “Positive Responses to Benefit and Harm: Bringing Forgiveness and Gratitude Into Cognitive Psychotherapy.” Journal of  Cognitive Psychotherapy 20, no. 2: 147-158.

In respect to the study conducted in the research, gratitude and forgiveness greatly counts to the psychological response in an individual given harmful situation. The entire article reviews all the contents of forgiveness and gratitude subjective to a harmful situation that affects most of individuals.





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