The relations of gratitude to religiosity, well-being, and personality

ABSTRACT

The relations of gratitude toward God and dispositional gratitude with well-being and personality were investigated, in an Iranian sample. As expected, gratitude was associated with higher scores on happiness, life satisfaction, psychological well-being, and the Big Five factors of personality. Dispositional gratitude out-predicted religious gratitude in relation with well-being. A second study confirmed the results in a second sample of Iranian Muslims, and in a sample of Polish Christians, providing cross-cultural evidence that the dispositional gratitude is a unique predictor of well-being. Positive links between gratitude and Honesty–Humility provided additional construct validity for these variables, as personality dimensions representing the bases of reciprocal altruism.

KEYWORDS:

• Gratitude
• gratitude to God
• religion
• well-being
• happiness
• personality
• Honesty–Humility

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Naser Aghababaei http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9354-3837