Developing gratitude in children and adolescents / edited by Jonathan R. H. Tudge, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Lia Beatriz de Lucca Freitas, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tudge, Jonathan, editor.

Freitas, Lia Beatriz de Lucca, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gratitude.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In popular opinion, gratitude means saying 'thank you'. While politeness and appreciation are certainly important, gratitude is a larger issue. Appropriately defined, it encompasses the strengthening of human relationships and qualifies as a moral virtue. This important and timely volume provides the conceptual framework for studying the development of gratitude, with a comprehensive and international set of authors approaching the topic from philosophical, psychological, and educational perspectives. The first section provides the theoretical underpinnings for the study of gratitude as a virtue. In the next section, the authors examine the ways in which gratitude develops, including key cross-cultural variations and some possible effects of its development. The final section then considers the links between parent and child gratitude and the ways in which parents and teachers can help to encourage gratitude, both in their everyday practices and by using literary texts.

Contents:

Cover

Half title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

1 Developing Gratitude: An Introduction

Part I: Setting the Scene

2 Toward a Psychological Study of the Virtues

3 Gratitude in Special Relationships

Part II: Gratitude, Developing

4 Assessing Influences on Gratitude Experience: Age-Related Differences in How Gratitude is Understood and Experienced

5 Gratitude and Moral Obligation

6 Cross-Cultural Variations in the Development of Gratitude

7 Gratitude in Adolescence: Determinants and Effects on Development, Prosocial Behavior, and Well-Being

8 The Development of Gratitude and Its Relation to Spending Preferences and Materialism

Part III: Developing Gratitude

9 Relations between Parents' and Children's Gratitude

10 Parent Socialization of Children's Gratitude

11 Children's and Parents' Understanding of Gratitude

12 Developing Gratitude as a Practice for Teachers

13 Teaching Gratitude through Literature

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).

ISBN:

1-316-86604-1

1-316-86379-4

1-316-86529-0

1-316-86554-1

1-316-86579-7

1-316-86312-3

1-316-86679-3

OCLC:

1013733865