Gratitude Questionnaire - Six Item Form.

GQ-6

What it measures

Dispositional gratitude - the proneness to recognise and respond with grateful emotion to others' benevolence and to life's positives; unidimensional grateful disposition.

Length and format

6 items. 7-pt Likert (1 strongly disagree - 7 strongly agree); 2 items reverse-scored (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Translated/validated in 20+ languages incl. ZH, ES, PT, IT, DE, FR, NL, TR and others

Normative data

Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.

Licence

open with attribution

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Reference

McCullough, M. E., Emmons, R. A., & Tsang, J. (2002). The grateful disposition: A conceptual and empirical topography. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82(1), 112-127.