65 couples participated in a University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill study which looked at how gratitude affects
relationships.
“Feelings of gratitude
and generosity are helpful in solidifying our
relationships with people we care
about, and benefit the one giving
Todd Kashdan, associate professor of
psychology at George Mason
University questioned whether gender plays a role in
being able to
express gratitude. His
research found that women feel “less burden
and obligation and greater levels
of gratitude when presented with
gifts.
In addition, older men reported greater negative emotions
when the gift
giver was another man.” This researcher
went on to
say that our society teaches men to conceal their softer emotions
Gratefulness benefits
teenagers. A study followed 700 New
Yorkers ages 10 to 14 over a four year period.
They found that
“grateful teens are more likely than their less grateful
peers to be
happy, less likely to abuse drugs and alcohol and less likely to
have
