Gratitude Interventions：A Meta-Analysis

• Main Authors: Wei-Hsuan Wang, 王煒萱
• Other Authors: Kun-Yuan chung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84236747451048615073

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 心理學系碩士班 === 103 === 　　The purpose of this study is to adopt meta-analysis methods to investigate the effects of gratitude interventions.Whether it is from the human point of view or perspective of social life, the gratitude issue has always been taken seriously, especially the more recent emergence of positive psychology gratitude regarded as one of the six virtues under twenty-four strengths, and many studies involved more show gratitude, gratitude can inspire a lot of positive affects, promote well-being promotion. 　　This study collects nearly nine years of “gratitude interventions” from 2006 to February 2015 to compile 38 studies with single group or between-groups design are included, and the total subject numbers are 3973. This meta- analysis study computes effect sizes of gratitude interventions and explore the effects of moderators which include executive level, subject variables, outcome variables, and methodological variables in an attempt to search for possible moderator variables. 　　The results of this study reveal that: (a)the overall immediate effect( =0.574) of gratitude Interventions is medium. (b)the immediate effect of gratitude is medium to high, the immediate effect of well-being is close to medium , the immediate effect of positive affect, negative affect, and depression are low. (c)examination of potential moderators indicated that executive level, recruitment, publication patterns, attrition rate, and duration. Although the aforementioned moderators are correlated to effectiveness change of the overall research literature, the explaning power is not strong enough. There are still other effects of latent moderators.