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Exploring Positive Emotions: Gratitude, Pride, and Happiness

Delve into the realm of positive emotions such as gratitude, pride, and happiness as studied by Drs. Leslie Kirby & Craig Smith. Learn about the effects, appraisals, and emotivational goals associated with these emotions. Discover the nuances of self-responsibility, competitiveness, celebration, and other related emotions within the context of emotion research. Explore the interplay between emotions, appraisal questions, and behavioral responses, shedding light on the broadening and building effects of gratitude, pride, and happiness.

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Exploring Positive Emotions: Gratitude, Pride, and Happiness

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  1. Exploring the Positive Emotions of Gratitude, Pride, and Happiness Aga Grzeszczak Mentors: Drs. Leslie Kirby & Craig Smith

  2. Introduction • Emotion research • Positive emotions • Broaden and Build • Nonspecific action tendencies, thought action tendencies, broaden perspective, build resources, undoing effect • Gratitude • Pride • Happiness

  3. Questions for Study • Specific emotion experience • Appraisal Questions • Self versus other responsibility • Positive and negative aspects • Emotivational Goals and Behavioral Responses • Competitiveness • Obligation • Creativity • Celebration • Other Emotions • Guilt • Regret • Frustration • Challenge • Disappointment

  4. Expectations • Broaden and Build • Pride and Happiness versus Gratitude • Appraisals • Gratitude • Other responsibility, higher associations with negative aspects • Happiness • Other responsibility, high positive aspects • Pride • Self responsibility, high positive aspects

  5. Expectations • Emotivational Goals and Behavioral Responses • Gratitude • Obligation • Happiness • Celebration, creativity • Pride • Celebration, competitiveness • Other Emotions • Gratitude • Guilt, regret, frustration, disappointment • Pride • challenge

  6. Pilot Study • Open-ended questionnaire • Description of situation • Why did they feel this specific emotion in this situation? • What did they want to do in this situation? • What did they actually do in this situation? • How, if at all, did this situation end-or how was it resolved? • Results • LIWC • Subjective analysis

  7. Linguistic Inquiry Word Count Results

  8. Method • 63 participants in a three-cell, two-part between subjects design • Past experiences questionnaire • Gratitude, pride, happiness • Dispositional questionnaire • Gratitude Resentment and Appreciation Test and Gratitude Questionnaire-6 • Subjective Happiness Scale and Satisfaction with Life Scale • Dispositional Pride Scale and Trait Pride Scale • Intrinsic/Extrinsic Revised Orientation Scale and Spiritual Transcendence Scale

  9. Measures • Qualitative ratings • Open ended questions • LIWC • Discrepancy • Self-reports • Emotivational goals, behavioral responses, appraisals, other associated emotions • ANOVA

  10. Results: Manipulation Checks

  11. Results: Appraisals: Responsibility

  12. Results: Appraisals: Positive and Negative Aspects

  13. Results: Emotivational Goal and Behavioral Response for Competitiveness Wanted to compete Actually competed

  14. Results: Other Emotions

  15. Results: LIWC: Self and Other-Directed Words

  16. Results: LIWC: Occupation and School-Related

  17. Conclusions • Key findings • Gratitude • Other-responsibility • Negative aspects • Indebtedness, obligation, frustration, guilt, resignation • Pride • Self-responsibility • Competitiveness • Happiness • Positive aspects • Emotivational goals • Creativity and openness • Disposition and Religion

  18. Limitations and Future Directions • Limitations • Generalizability • Self-reports • Zoomerang • Future directions • Experiment • Gender and diversity

  19. Acknowledgements Thank you: Dr. Leslie Kirby Dr. Craig Smith Smith/Kirby lab group

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