MCGM-SY Colombian sample Uniandes

The study explored the psychometric properties of the Multi-Component Gratitude Measure (MCGM), in Spanish with a sample of Colombian children. The MCGM aims to examine more comprehensively the moral virtue of gratitude as a construct with 3 components (emotional, conative/attitudinal, and behavioral) distributed across 6 subscales. We translated the MCGM into Spanish and validated the factor structure in a principal component analysis, basing the analysis on the 6 subscales.
The sample was composed of 540 schoolchildren between 8–12 years old (265 females, mean age 10.04 years; 75 males, mean age 10.08 years). Children completed a questionnaire using the QualtricsXM survey platform. The database includes the participants' raw scores on each one questionnaire items and sociodemographic variables. The codebook is displayed in another excel sheet.

We corroborated that gratitude was understood as a complex, multi-component construct from children's perspectives. Overall, the MCGM subscales showed good reliability coefficients between 0.7 and 0.9. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that a 5-factor model structure (obtained in the PCA), uniting two original subscales (feelings of gratitude and attitudes to gratitude) into a single subscale, presented the best-adjusted fit indices.