Gratitude interventions to reduce negative effects of extrinsic goals on psychological well-being

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2019

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Bozkurt, Tuğba

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This study aims to investigate the associations between extrinsic/intrinsic goal orientation, gratitude, basic psychological needs and psychological well-being. It was anticipated that gratitude and the satisfaction of basic psychological needs will mediate the relationship between extrinsic goal orientation and lower levels of well-being and also inducing gratitude experimentally will increase the well-being. Gratitude intervention was used in this study to reduce the negative effects of extrinsic goal orientation on well-being and participants are asked to exercise gratitude writing on daily reports for two weeks.Results showed gratitude and basic need satisfaction mediates the relationshıp between extrinsic goal orientation and well-being. Moreover, after gratitude intervention the well-being of both extrinsic goal oriented and intrinsic goal oriented people significantly increased but this increase was not significantly higher for the people with extrinsic goals. The findings, contributions and limitations of the study and also future research directions were discussed.

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Gratitude., Emotions., Virtues., Psychology M.S. thesis

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/27944

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T. Bozkurt, “Gratitude interventions to reduce negative effects of extrinsic goals on psychological well-being,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2019.