Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/5710
Title: Is gratitude always beneficial to interpersonal relationships? The interplay of grateful disposition, grateful mood, and grateful expression among married couples
Authors: Leong, Joyce L. T. 
Chen, Sylvia Xiaohua 
Fung, Helene H. 
Bond, Michael Harris 
Dr. SIU Yat-fan, Nicolson 
Zhu, Jay Yijie 
Issue Date: 2020
Source: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Jan. 2020, vol. 46(1), pp. 64-78.
Journal: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 
Abstract: A growing body of research has documented positive outcomes of gratitude in personal and interpersonal domains. To uncover the dynamic process of gratitude and relational well-being, we examined the interplay of grateful disposition, grateful mood, and grateful expression in ongoing close relationships. Hong Kong Chinese couples (n = 100) participated in a three-wave study across three consecutive weeks. Adopting the Actor–Partner Interdependence Model, we found that at Time 1, grateful disposition not only predicted one’s own grateful mood but also the perceived grateful mood of one’s spouse, both of which predicted marital satisfaction. At Time 2, the couples were randomly assigned to two conditions over 2 weeks: having one spouse keeping a private gratitude journal or overtly expressing gratitude to the other. Couples’ grateful mood increased at Time 3, indicating the effectiveness of both interventions. However, the resulting changes in marital satisfaction differed for the beneficiaries (enactors) and benefactors (targets), such that husbands who perceived their wife’s expressed gratitude as less sincere declined in their marital satisfaction. The results reveal the boundary conditions in evaluating expressions of gratitude and improvement of relationships and provide implications for social exchange and couple therapy.
Type: Peer Reviewed Journal Article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/5710
ISSN: 0146-1672
1552-7433
DOI: 10.1177/0146167219842868
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