List Length, List Content, and Gratitude List Intervention Outcomes

IF 4.3 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Social Psychological and Personality Science Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI:10.1177/19485506241232717

Mariah F. Purol, William J. Chopik

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Abstract

Gratitude lists, well-being interventions in which participants list things that they are grateful for, have recently grown in popularity. However, being tasked with generating longer gratitude lists might backfire and be associated with less felt gratitude. Furthermore, the content of these gratitude lists is rarely examined. In three studies of 3,936 participants, people assigned to shorter length conditions (three items) were relatively comparable in gratitude and life satisfaction to those assigned to longer list conditions (six and 12 items), although an exploratory analysis revealed that failure to list enough gratitude items for a given condition was associated with lower well-being. These results provided evidence that ease-of-retrieval effects may not play a strong role in the efficacy of gratitude lists. Those who listed particular content items (e.g., close relationships and health) were higher in post-intervention gratitude and well-being than those who did not.

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清单长度、清单内容和感恩清单干预结果

感恩清单是一种幸福干预措施，参与者在清单中列出自己感激的事情，这种方法最近越来越受欢迎。然而，让受试者列出更长的感恩清单可能会适得其反，反而会让受试者产生更少的感激之情。此外，这些感恩清单的内容也很少被研究。在对 3936 名参与者进行的三项研究中，被分配到较短长度条件下（3 个项目）的人与被分配到较长清单条件下（6 个和 12 个项目）的人在感激之情和生活满意度方面相对相当，但一项探索性分析显示，在给定条件下未能列出足够的感激项目与较低的幸福感有关。这些结果证明，易检索效应在感恩清单的功效中可能并不重要。那些列出了特定内容项目（如亲密关系和健康）的人在干预后的感激之情和幸福感要高于那些没有列出的人。

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Social Psychological and Personality Science PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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12.50

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1.80%

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