Conceptualizing gratitude and appreciation as a unitary personality trait

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 621-632

  Wood, Alex M ^a   Maltby, John ^b   Stewart, Neil ^a   Joseph, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appreciation; Appreciation Scale; Confirmatory factor analysis; Factor analysis; GQ6; GRAT; Gratitude; Multigroup CFA; Personality; Positive psychology; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749131785     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.09.028     Document Type: Article

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