| type="text/javascript"> | | | | into a mainstream focus of psychological research. |
| Gratitude, thankfulness, or appreciation is a positive | | | | Go to our website for the top ten gifts for |
| emotion or perspective in admission of an advantage | | | | teenagers |
| that one has received or will receive. The experience | | | | Specifically, folks who were more thankful before the |
| of gratitude has in the past been a focus of several | | | | transition were less stressed, less depressed, and |
| world faiths, and has been considered at length by | | | | more pleased with their relationships three months |
| moral philosophers such as Adam Smith. The | | | | later. 2nd , two recent studies have suggested that |
| methodical study of gratitude within psychology only | | | | gratitude could have a unique relationship with |
| began around the year 2000, possibly because | | | | contentment, and can explain aspects of |
| psychology has traditionally been focused more on | | | | contentment that other personality characteristics |
| understanding trouble rather than understanding | | | | can't. Both studies showed that gratitude was able to |
| positive emotions. However, with the advent of the | | | | explain more contentment than the Big Five and |
| positive psychology movement, gratitude has turned | | | | thirty of the most usually studied personality traits. |