Gratitude as a path to human prosperity during adverse circumstances: a narrative review

Title

Gratitude as a path to human prosperity during adverse circumstances: a narrative review

Creator

Kurian R.M.; Thomas S.

Description

Although each person faces their own share of challenges, it is their individual perception and responses to these difficulties that determine how they are affected by them. In this paper we investigate the association between gratitude and human prosperity including the underlying mechanism that helps people thrive during trying circumstances. We survey the literature, examining how gratitude enables people to prosper amidst adversity and employ a narrative style to present these unique characteristics. This review suggests that gratitude enhances coping abilities, such as meaning-focused coping and positive reframing, which foster positive emotions and augment personal resources like resilience, perseverance, and social bonds. These elements, in turn, may possibly explain the association between gratitude and human prosperity during dire circumstances. 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Source

British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, Vol-51, No. 5, pp. 739-752.

Date

2023-01-01

Publisher

Routledge

Subject

adversity; coping; flourishing; Gratitude; human prosperity; well-being

Coverage

Kurian R.M., Department of Psychology, CHRIST University, Bengaluru, India; Thomas S., Department of Psychology, CHRIST University, Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 3069885

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Review

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2022.2154314

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