(8/8) Big thanks to Rui Sun for her fantastic guidance on this project!

(7/8) This could indicate that gratitude feelings might not protect wellbeing as much in collectively stressful or resource-scarce contexts. These results stress the need for culturally and contextually sensitive wellbeing interventions, and for expanding strategies beyond gratitude.

(6/8) These findings demonstrate that individuals’ wellbeing is closely tied to their feelings of gratitude, regardless of their age, gender, SES, or education attainment, but specifically those from richer, more individualistic countries and for those living in absence of collective stress.

(5/8) Considering cultural factors, we found that wellbeing was less tied to feeling grateful in countries that were higher in collectivism, discrimination between “us” and “them”, holistic thought, responsibilism, and power distance.

(4/8) We found a weaker link between gratitude and wellbeing in stressful contexts (i.e., pandemic and in countries with lower national income, urban population, integration policy scores, democracy index scores, and average age, SES, education attainment, and life expectancy.

(3/8) Using cross-sectional and daily diary data, we show that wellbeing is closely tied to gratitude experiences, with no meaningful universal moderation effects of age, gender, subjective SES, or education attainment. However, not everyone benefits equally: context and culture mattered a lot.

(2/8) Gratitude practices are often promoted during crises (e.g., COVID or more recently, political uncertainty), but past research is constrained by limited cultural diversity, small sample sizes, and mixed results and has primarily focused on personal stress rather than collective challenges.

Such cool and valueable work!

Such cool work! Congrats!!

Thanks for creating this! I study positive emotions and wellbeing, would be happy to be added! Thanks!

great list, thank you!! Would love to be included as well :)