Overview
- Provides clear answers to why gratitude is important to living well
- The first book to bring a comprehensive analysis of gratitude research
- Gives clear suggestions for future research on gratitude
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The “What” of Gratitude
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Front Matter
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The “How” of Gratitude
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Beauty of Gratitude
- Death, Deprivations and Gratitude
- Development of Gratitude
- Emotional Health
- Gender and Gratitude
- Grateful Reframing
- Gratitude and Appreciation
- Gratitude and Enhancing Positive Memories
- Gratitude and Enhancing Relationships
- Gratitude and Happiness
- Gratitude and Physical Well-Being
- Gratitude and Positive Psychology
- Gratitude and Well-Being
- Measuring Gratitude
- Memory and Happiness
- Positive Emotion in the Coping Process
- Positive Psychology
- Recognitions of Gratitude
- Science of Gratitude
- Social Emotion and Gratitude
- The Social-Cognitive Model of Gratitude
- Understanding the Character of Grateful People
- Well-Being and Relationships
About this book
This book provides clear and sometimes surprising answers to why gratitude is important to living well. The science of gratitude has shown much growth in the last ten years, and there is now sufficient evidence to suggest that gratitude is one of the most important components of the good life. Both correlational and experimental studies have provided support for the theory that gratitude enhances well-being.
After providing a lucid understanding of gratitude, this volume explores the many aspects of well-being that are associated with gratitude. Moreover, experimental work has now provided promising evidence to suggest that gratitude actually causes enhancements in happiness. If gratitude promotes human flourishing, how does it do so? This issue is addressed in the second section of the book by exploring the mechanisms that might explain the gratitude/well-being relationship. This book provides an up to date account of gratitude research andsuggested interesting paths for future research, all while providing a theory of gratitude that helps make this information more understandable.
This book is very valuable to gratitude investigators, as well as all who are interested in pursuing this line of research, students and scholars of emotion and well-being and instructors of positive psychology courses and seminars.
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“The book’s 14 chapters are organized in two parts, including an introductory chapter. … As an academic, research-oriented work, it is sold as a technical text; however, much of the content would be of interest to the well-educated public. … I strongly recommend this book.” (Dolores E. McCarthy, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 59 (32), August, 2014)
“Watkins (Eastern Washington Univ.) has written a comprehensive, well-organized, engaging book on gratitude as essential emotion, trait, and mood state. … This 14-chapter book has three sections. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.” (D. S. Dunn, Choice, Vol. 51 (7), March, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gratitude and the Good Life
Book Subtitle: Toward a Psychology of Appreciation
Authors: Philip C. Watkins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7253-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7252-6Published: 11 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7856-5Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7253-3Published: 30 September 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 259
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Personality and Social Psychology