Cultural Variation in Correlates of Gratitude, 2021

2,974 participants who identified as affiliating with their country's majority religion were recruited through various panels (e.g., Prolific, CloudResearch, Embrain) for this online study on cultural variation in the motivational correlates of gratitude. 2,093 of those participants passed the included attention check, resulting in 630 American Christians (Mage = 38.1; 53.6% female), 233 Indian Hindus (Mage = 30.8; 37.8% female), 289 Israeli Jews (Mage = 40.85; 52.4% female), 310 Polish Catholics (Mage = 23.30; 31.8% female), 360 South Korean Christians (Mage = 38.59; 52.2% female), and 271 Turkish Muslims (Mage = 34.83; 56.5% female).
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The survey, which was prepared in English and translated to other languages for administration with Israeli, Polish, Korean, and Turkish participants, contained measures of desired gratitude to others and to God, desired positive and negative emotions (Scale of Positive and Negative Emotions, Diener et al., 2010), experienced positive and negative emotions, desire to be indebted and desire to be close to others (adapted from Vishkin et al., 2020), experienced gratitude to others and to God (modified Gratitude Questionnaire, McCullough et al., 2002, Rosmarin et al., 2011), lay beliefs about emotions, religiosity (Religious Commitment Inventory, Worthington et al., 2003), and demographics. The American and Israeli samples each completed one additional measure: desired and experienced nonpersonal gratitude (American sample) and experienced awe to others and to God (Israeli sample). Consult the attached Supplemental Materials file for more information about the items included in the survey.
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The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Artis International (IRB# 2021-0106).