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The Grateful Personality

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This chapter presents some of the current models of personality development with the goal of framing the relationship between gratitude and other dimensions of personality. Features of the prosocial personality incorporate many features of gratitude. Individuals may vary in their tendency to respond in a grateful manner, and the components of a grateful disposition are presented along with the measures used to quantify this orientation. Finally, the tendency to cultivate transcendent gratitude is discussed as a way of being in the world.

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  1. Sophia University, Palo Alto, USA

    John Elfers

  2. University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, USA

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Elfers, J., Hlava, P. (2016). The Grateful Personality. In: The Spectrum of Gratitude Experience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41030-2_8

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