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Empirical research conducted recently has suggested that athlete gratitude facilitates mental health and human relationships. This research aims to create scales concerning organizational environments that promote gratitude among university athletes, and to test the reliability and validity of these scales. A questionnaire survey was administered to 231 students participating in university athletic club activities. Exploratory factor analyses of these scales revealed that a climate of gratitude consisted out of four factors (climates of gratitude relating to team assistants, grounds and tools, expeditions, and a climate of expressing such gratitude) across 12 items. This accompanied a public gratitude system consisting of three factors (roles in expressing gratitude, efforts to foster members’ gratitude, and the roles in expressing one’s gratitude to supporters) via 11 items. After identification, we calculated Cronbach’s alpha coefficients and obtained high internal consistencies with respect to all subscales. Furthermore, confirmatory factor analyses of these scales indicated that we need to revise the factor structure of the public gratitude system. Finally, we discussed the limitations and future directions of this study. In future research, we should investigate the antecedents that evoke gratitude and create scales that measure them. |
