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Gratitude Intervention Evokes Indebtedness: Moderated by Perceived Social Distance

Previous study suggests that gratitude intervention evokes indebtedness among people from an interdependent society. This study furtherly hypothesized that perceived social distance moderates the effect of gratitude intervention on felt indebtedness. A total of 275 adolescents were randomly assigned...

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Autores principales: He, Wuming, Qiu, Junjie, Chen, Yingying, Zhong, Yufang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8965834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35369203
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.824326
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description Previous study suggests that gratitude intervention evokes indebtedness among people from an interdependent society. This study furtherly hypothesized that perceived social distance moderates the effect of gratitude intervention on felt indebtedness. A total of 275 adolescents were randomly assigned to three gratitude intervention conditions, namely, writing gratitude to significant others, the health of one’s own, or nothing. After completing the writing task, they rated their experienced emotions on ten dimensions, including gratitude and indebtedness. They also reported perceived social distance from surrounding people and other demographical information. Results indicated that participants in the condition of writing about gratitude to significant others felt indebted regardless of perceived social distance, while those in the condition of writing about gratitude to his/her own health and those in the control condition experienced lesser indebtedness as the perceived social distance with others becomes closer. Gratitude increases as perceived social connectedness increases across all conditions. Theoretical and practical implications were discussed.
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spelling pubmed-89658342022-03-31 Gratitude Intervention Evokes Indebtedness: Moderated by Perceived Social Distance He, Wuming Qiu, Junjie Chen, Yingying Zhong, Yufang Front Psychol Psychology Previous study suggests that gratitude intervention evokes indebtedness among people from an interdependent society. This study furtherly hypothesized that perceived social distance moderates the effect of gratitude intervention on felt indebtedness. A total of 275 adolescents were randomly assigned to three gratitude intervention conditions, namely, writing gratitude to significant others, the health of one’s own, or nothing. After completing the writing task, they rated their experienced emotions on ten dimensions, including gratitude and indebtedness. They also reported perceived social distance from surrounding people and other demographical information. Results indicated that participants in the condition of writing about gratitude to significant others felt indebted regardless of perceived social distance, while those in the condition of writing about gratitude to his/her own health and those in the control condition experienced lesser indebtedness as the perceived social distance with others becomes closer. Gratitude increases as perceived social connectedness increases across all conditions. Theoretical and practical implications were discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8965834/ /pubmed/35369203 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.824326 Text en Copyright © 2022 He, Qiu, Chen and Zhong. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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He, Wuming
Qiu, Junjie
Chen, Yingying
Zhong, Yufang
Gratitude Intervention Evokes Indebtedness: Moderated by Perceived Social Distance
title Gratitude Intervention Evokes Indebtedness: Moderated by Perceived Social Distance
title_full Gratitude Intervention Evokes Indebtedness: Moderated by Perceived Social Distance
title_fullStr Gratitude Intervention Evokes Indebtedness: Moderated by Perceived Social Distance
title_full_unstemmed Gratitude Intervention Evokes Indebtedness: Moderated by Perceived Social Distance
title_short Gratitude Intervention Evokes Indebtedness: Moderated by Perceived Social Distance
title_sort gratitude intervention evokes indebtedness: moderated by perceived social distance
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8965834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35369203
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.824326
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