Relationships of Gratitude, Hope, and Forgiveness with Well-being and Subjective Health in College Students

SLEZÁČKOVÁ, Alena and Ivana BLAHOVSKÁ. Relationships of Gratitude, Hope, and Forgiveness with Well-being and Subjective Health in College Students. In Third World Congress on Positive Psychology, Los Angeles, USA, June 27-30, 2013. 2013.

Basic information

• Original name: Relationships of Gratitude, Hope, and Forgiveness with Well-being and Subjective Health in College Students
• Authors: SLEZÁČKOVÁ, Alena (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Ivana BLAHOVSKÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Third World Congress on Positive Psychology, Los Angeles, USA, June 27-30, 2013, 2013.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences
• Country of publisher: United States of America
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/13:00068816
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: gratitude; hope; forgiveness; well-being; subjective health; college students
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The study focuses on examining of the role of particular character strengths in psychological well-being of college students. The main aim of the study was to identify the interrelations between well-being and gratitude, hope, forgiveness, and subjective health of respondents. The other aims were to analyze the correlation rate between hope, gratitude and forgiveness, and to compare the results of college students in two nations, Czech and Slovak. The Czech version of the Gratitude Questionnaire GQ-6 (McCullough, Emmons, Tsang, 2002), Adult Hope Scale (Snyder, 1991), Heartland Forgiveness Scale (Thompson et al., 2005) and Psychological Well-Being Scale (Ryff, 1989) were administered to the sample of 317 college students. Within the sample, 122 (38.5%) of the respondents were male, while 195 (61.5%) were female. Mean age of the group was 21.8 years. Cronbach's alfa was calculated to prove reliabilty and internal consistency of the methods. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, regression and correlation analysis. Results show significant relationships between all studied variables and suggest interesting relationships between psychological well-being and subjective health. Czech and Slovak college students differ only in the degree of gratitude.