Gratitude and Loneliness: Enhancing Health and Well-Being in Older Adults
| Autor: | Sarah N. Arpin, Monica Y. Bartlett |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Health (social science) Psychotherapeutic Processes Social Psychology Writing media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Health Promotion 050105 experimental psychology Treatment and control groups Random Allocation Activities of Daily Living Gratitude medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Longitudinal Studies Subjective well-being Social Behavior Aged media_common Differential impact Loneliness 05 social sciences Well-being Female Independent Living Geriatrics and Gerontology medicine.symptom Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Research on Aging. 41:772-793 |
| ISSN: | 1552-7573 0164-0275 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0164027519845354 |
| Popis: | We experimentally investigated gratitude’s impact on loneliness and health in older adults. Participants were assigned to a daily gratitude writing exercise (treatment group) or a control group. Self-reported loneliness and health (i.e., subjective well-being, subjective health, health symptoms) were measured daily over a 3-week period. In support of our hypotheses, within-person variability in gratitude predicted differences in loneliness and health. Furthermore, those in the treatment group showed stronger cumulative effects of gratitude on loneliness and health symptoms when aggregated across the 20-day study. Additionally, a series of conditional, multilevel indirect effect models found that loneliness acted as a mechanism for gratitude’s differential impact on subjective well-being and health symptoms across conditions. Taken together, this study provides initial evidence that a simple gratitude exercise can strengthen associations among daily gratitude and loneliness and, consequently, improve health, for older adults. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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