The Effect of Counting Kindness and Gratitude Interventions on Happiness

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  • 親切と感謝の行動が幸福感に及ぼす影響
  • シンセツ ト カンシャ ノ コウドウ ガ コウフクカン ニ オヨボス エイキョウ

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This study was to analyze how a counting intervention to prompt kindness behavior and a counting intervention to prompt gratitude behavior coming out in response to acts of kindness would affect motivation toward and generation of kindness behavior and increases in subjective happiness. 82 female junior college students cooperated to participate in the experiment, with 18 in the gratitude group, 35 in the kindness group, and 29 in the control group. The results showed that motivation of the gratitude group toward kindness behavior increased and the number of students in the kindness group who performed kindness behavior also increased. Immediately after the interventions students felt happier and more grateful in the intervention groups than in the control group. Therefore it was suggested that the interventions could have positively influenced motivation toward and generation of kindness behavior. No evidence,however,indicated that the interventions affected subjective happiness.

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