Let us count our blessings: Health-esteem and confidence, hedonic balance, and quality of interpersonal relationships as mediators between trait gratitude and life satisfaction

• Main Authors: Apsay, Jamela Medina, Chua, Michelle Anne Ong, Sy, Hanzel Zaniel So, Sy, Joyce Evangeline Tan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Health; Confidence; Interpersonal relations; Personality; Satisfaction; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/7904
• Institution: De La Salle University

Studies have shown that trait gratitude predicts life satisfaction. However, there is scarcity in the literatures that explain this relationship. In this study, a Biopsychological model was proposed as a theoretical framework, and three mediators namely, Health-esteem and Confidence, Hedonic Balance, and Quality of Interpersonal Relationships were identified to operationalize the model. Psychometric properties were checked, and multiple mediation analysis based on 10,000 bootstrapped samples was conducted. Results showed significant partial mediation, with quality of interpersonal relationships explaining the most indirect effect, among the three. On the other hand, health-esteem and confidence and hedonic balance showed no significant difference in the magnitude of the indirect effect. Hence, the higher trait gratitude while holding the three mediating variables constant showed to increase life satisfaction. Obtaining partial mediation could also indicate other possible factors of the Biopsychosocial model to consider in order to fully explain the relationship. The results of the research are also supported by the findings of other studies, and implications of the results were then discussed.