Publication Cover
The Journal of Positive Psychology
Dedicated to furthering research and promoting good practice
Volume 18, 2023 - Issue 4
593
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Find, remind, blind? Support as a context for the adaptive nature of gratitude

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 636-648 | Received 15 May 2021, Accepted 04 Jan 2022, Published online: 04 Apr 2022

References

  • Algoe, S. B. (2012). Find, remind, and bind: The functions of gratitude in everyday relationships. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6(6), 455–469. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2012.00439.x
  • Bar-Kalifa, E., Bar-Kalifa, L., Rafaeli, E., George-Levi, S., & Vilchinsky, N. (2016). Relational entitlement moderates the associations between support matching and perceived partner responsiveness. Journal of Research in Personality, 65(2016), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2016.08.009
  • Bar-Kalifa, E., & Rafaeli, E. (2013). Disappointment’s sting is greater than help’s balm: Quasi-signal detection of daily support matching. Journal of Family Psychology, 27(6), 956–967. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034905
  • Bodenmann, G., Randall, A. K., & Falconier, M. K. (2016). Coping in couples: The Systemic Transactional Model (STM). In Falconier, M. K., Randall, A. K., & Bodenmann, G. (Eds.), Couples Coping with Stress: A Cross-cultural Perspective (pp. 5–22). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Brady, A., Baker, L. R., Muise, A., & Impett, E. A. (2021). Gratitude increases the motivation to fulfill a partner’s sexual needs. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(2), 273–281. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619898971
  • Campo, R. A., Uchino, B. N., Holt‐Lunstad, J., Vaughn, A., Reblin, M., & Smith, T. W. (2009). The assessment of positivity and negativity in social networks: The reliability and validity of the social relationships index. Journal of Community Psychology, 37(4), 471–486. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.20308
  • Cazzell, A. R. (2017). Partner responsiveness mediates the relationship between virtues and partner movement toward ideal self. [Doctoral dissertation, Brigham Young University]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
  • Chamizo-Nieto, M. T., Rey, L., & Pellitteri, J. (2020). Gratitude and emotional intelligence as protective factors against cyber-aggression: Analysis of a mediation model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(12), 4475. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124475
  • Cho, Y., & Fast, N. J. (2012). Power, defensive denigration, and the assuaging effect of gratitude expression. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(3), 778–782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2011.12.016
  • Coyne, J. C., & Smith, D. A. F. (1991). Couples coping with a myocardial infarction: A contextual perspective on wives’ distress. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61(3), 404–412. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.61.3.404
  • Crocetti, E., Schwartz, S. J., Fermani, A., & Meeus, W. (2010). The Utrecht-management of identity commitments scale (U-MICS). European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 26(3), 169–183. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000024
  • Deng, Y., Xiang, R., Zhu, Y., Li, Y., Yu, S., & Liu, X. (2019). Counting blessings and sharing gratitude in a Chinese prisoner sample: Effects of gratitude-based interventions on subjective well-being and aggression. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 14(3), 303–311. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2018.1460687
  • DeWall, C. N., Lambert, N. M., Pond, R. S., Jr, Kashdan, T. B., & Fincham, F. D. (2012). A grateful heart is a nonviolent heart: Cross-sectional, experience sampling, longitudinal, and experimental evidence. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(2), 232–240. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550611416675
  • Eibach, R. P., Wilmot, M. O., & Libby, L. K. (2015). The system‐justifying function of gratitude norms. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9(7), 348–358. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12184
  • Emmons, R. A., & Mccullough, M. E. (2003). Counting blessings versus burdens: An experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(2), 377–389.
  • Eyring, J. B., Leavitt, C. E., Allsop, D. B., & Clancy, T. J. (2020). Forgiveness and gratitude: Links between couples’ mindfulness and sexual and relational satisfaction in new cisgender heterosexual marriages. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 47(2), 147–161. https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2020.1842571
  • Fincham, F. D., & Beach, S. R. H. (2010). Of memes and marriage: Toward a positive relationship science. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 2(1), 4–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-2589.2010.00033.x
  • García-Vázquez, F. I., Valdés-Cuervo, A. A., & Parra-Pérez, L. G. (2020). The effects of forgiveness, gratitude, and self-control on reactive and proactive aggression in bullying. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(16), 5760. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165760
  • Gordon, C. L., Arnette, R. A., & Smith, R. E. (2011). Have you thanked your spouse today?: Felt and expressed gratitude among married couples. Personality and Individual Differences, 50(3), 339–343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.10.012
  • Gottman, J. M. (1994). What predicts divorce?: The relationship between marital processes and marital outcomes. Erlbaum.
  • Gremore, T., Baucom, D., Porter, L., Kirby, J., Atkins, D., & Keefe, F. (2011). Stress buffering effects of daily spousal support on women’s daily emotional and physical experiences in the context of breast cancer concerns. Health Psychology, 30(1), 20–30. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021798
  • Grossi, E., Groth, N., Mosconi, P., Cerutti, R., Pace, F., Compare, A., & Apolone, G. (2006). Development and validation of the short version of the Psychological General Well-Being Index (PGWB-S). Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 4(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-4-88
  • Huffman, J. C., Beale, E. E., Celano, C. M., Beach, S. R., Belcher, A. M., Moore, S. V., Suarez, L., Motiwala, S. R., Gandhi, P. U., Gaggin, H. K., & Januzzi, J. L. (2015). Effects of optimism and gratitude on physical activity, biomarkers, and readmissions after an acute coronary syndrome: The gratitude research in acute coronary events study. Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 9(1), 55–63. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.115.002184
  • Jackowska, M., Brown, J., Ronaldson, A., & Steptoe, A. (2016). The impact of a brief gratitude intervention on subjective well-being, biology and sleep. Journal of Health Psychology, 21(10), 2207–2217. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105315572455
  • Jans-Beken, L., Jacobs, N., Janssens, M., Peeters, S., Reijnders, J., Lechner, L., & Lataster, J. (2019). Gratitude and health: An updated review. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 15(6), 743–782. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2019.1651888
  • Joel, S., Gordon, A. M., Impett, E. A., MacDonald, G., & Keltner, D. (2013). The things you do for me: Perceptions of a romantic partner’s investments promote gratitude and commitment. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 39(10), 1333–1345. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167213497801
  • Kashdan, T. B., Uswatte, G., & Julian, T. (2006). Gratitude and hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in Vietnam war veterans. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44(2), 177–199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2005.01.005
  • Kendler, K. S., Liu, X. Q., Gardner, C. O., McCullough, M. E., Larson, D., & Prescott, C. A. (2003). Dimensions of religiosity and their relationship to lifetime psychiatric and substance use disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160(3), 496–503. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.160.3.496
  • Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., & Newton, T. L. (2001). Marriage and health: His and hers. Psychological Bulletin, 127(4), 472–503. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.127.4.472
  • Kristjánsson, K. (2015). An Aristotelian virtue of gratitude. Topoi, 34(2), 499–511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-013-9213-8
  • Ksenofontov, I., & Becker, J. C. (2020). The harmful side of thanks: Thankful responses to high-power group help undermine low-power groups’ protest. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(5), 794–807. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167219879125
  • Kubacka, K. E., Finkenauer, C., Rusbult, C. E., & Keijsers, L. (2011). Maintaining close relationships: Gratitude as a motivator and a detector of maintenance behavior. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 37(10), 1362–1375. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167211412196
  • Lakey, B., & Orehek, E. (2011). Relational regulation theory: A new approach to explain the link between perceived social support and mental health. Psychological Review, 118(3), 482–495. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023477
  • Lambert, N. M., & Fincham, F. D. (2011). Expressing gratitude to a partner leads to more relationship maintenance behavior. Emotion, 11(1), 52–60. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021557
  • Lemay, E. P., & Neal, A. M. (2014). Accurate and biased perceptions of responsive support predict well-being. Motivation and Emotion, 38(2), 270–286.
  • Luchies, L. B., Finkel, E. J., McNulty, J. K., & Kumashiro, M. (2010). The doormat effect: When forgiving erodes self-respect and self-concept clarity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(5), 734–749. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017838
  • Ma, L. K., Tunney, R. J., & Ferguson, E. (2017). Does gratitude enhance prosociality?: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 143(6), 601–635. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000103
  • Maisel, N. C., & Gable, S. L. (2009). The paradox of received social support: The importance of responsiveness. Psychological Science, 20(8), 928–932. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02388.x
  • McNulty, J. K. (2011). The dark side of forgiveness: The tendency to forgive predicts continued psychological and physical aggression in marriage. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 37(6), 770–783. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167211407077
  • McNulty, J. K., & Fincham, F. D. (2012). Beyond positive psychology? Toward a contextual view of psychological processes and well-being. American Psychologist, 67(2), 101–110. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024572
  • Ng, V., & Tay, L. (2020). Lost in translation: The construct representation of character virtues. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(2), 309–326. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619886014
  • Ng, J. W. X., Tong, E. M. W., Sim, D. L. Y., Teo, S. W. Y., Loy, X., & Giesbrecht, T. (2017). Gratitude facilitates private conformity: A test of the social alignment hypothesis. Emotion, 17(2), 379–387. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000249
  • Pierce, G. R., Sarason, I. G., & Sarason, B. R. (1991). General and relationship-based perceptions of social support: Are two constructs better than one? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61(6), 1028–1039. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.61.6.1028
  • Redwine, L., Henry, B. L., Pung, M. A., Wilson, K., Greenberg, B., Maisel, A., Mills, P. J., Rutledge, T., Greenberg, B., Maisel, A., & Mills, P. J. (2016). A pilot randomized study of a gratitude journaling intervention on HRV and inflammatory biomarkers in stage B heart failure patients. Psychosomatic Medicine, 78(6), 667. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000316
  • Schnitker, S. A., & Richardson, K. L. (2019). Framing gratitude journaling as prayer amplifies its hedonic and eudaimonic well-being, but not health, benefits. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 14(4), 427–439. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2018.1460690
  • Schüutz, A. (1999). It was your fault! Self-serving biases in autobiographical accounts of conflicts in married couples. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 16(2), 193–208. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407599162004
  • Simmons, J. P., Nelson, L. D., & Simonsohn, U. (2011). False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological Science, 22(11), 1359–1366. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611417632
  • Stewart, A. L., Hays, R. D., & Ware, J. E., Jr. (1988). The MOS short-form general health survey: Reliability and validity in a patient population. Medical Care, 26(7), 724–735. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005650-198807000-00007
  • Straus, M. A., Hamby, S. L., Boney-mccoy, S., & Sugarman, D. B. (1996). The revised conflict tactics scales (CTS2) development and preliminary psychometric data. Journal of Family Issues, 17(3), 283–316. https://doi.org/10.1177/019251396017003001
  • Taylor, S. E. (2011). Social support: A review. In H. S. Friedman (Ed.), Oxford library of psychology. The Oxford handbook of health psychology (pp. 189–214). Oxford University Press.
  • Tesser, A., & Beach, S. R. H. (1998). Life events, relationship quality, and depression: An investigation of judgment discontinuity in vivo. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(1), 36–52. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.74.1.36
  • Tong, E. M. W., Ng, C.-X., Ho, J. B. H., Yap, I. J. L., Chua, E. X. Y., Ng, J. W. X., Ho, D. Z. Y., & Diener, E. (2020). Gratitude facilitates obedience: New evidence for the social alignment perspective. Emotion 21(6) 1302–1316. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000928
  • Turner, R. J. (1981). Social support as a contingency in psychological well-being. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 22(4), 357–367.
  • Uchino, B. N. (2004). Social support and physical health. Yale University Press.
  • Visserman, M. L., Righetti, F., Impett, E. A., Keltner, D., & Van Lange, P. A. (2018). It’s the motive that counts: Perceived sacrifice motives and gratitude in romantic relationships. Emotion, 18(5), 625–637. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000344
  • Wood, A. M., Emmons, R. A., Algoe, S. B., Froh, J. J., Lambert, N. M., & Watkins, P. (2016). A dark side of gratitude? Distinguishing between beneficial gratitude and its harmful impostors for the positive clinical psychology of gratitude and well-being. In A. M. Wood & J. Johnson (Eds.), The Wiley handbook of positive clinical psychology (pp. 137–151). Wiley Blackwell.
  • Wood, A. M., Froh, J. J., & Geraghty, A. W. (2010). Gratitude and well-being: A review and theoretical integration. Clinical Psychology Review, 30(7), 890–905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2010.03.005
  • Wood, A. M., Joseph, S., & Maltby, J. (2009). Gratitude predicts psychological well-being above the big five facets. Personality and Individual Differences, 46(4), 443–447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.11.012
  • Wood, A. M., Maltby, J., Gillett, R., Linley, P. A., & Joseph, S. (2008). The role of gratitude in the development of social support, stress, and depression: Two longitudinal studies. Journal of Research in Personality, 42(4), 854–871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2007.11.003
  • Zhu, R., Xu, Z., Tang, H., Wang, H., Zhang, S., Zhang, Z., Liu, C., & Liu, C. (2020). The dark side of gratitude: Gratitude could lead to moral violation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 91, 104048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104048

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.