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- Influence
The grateful disposition: a conceptual and empirical topography.
- M. McCullough, Robert A Emmons, Jo-Ann Tsang
- Medicine
- Journal of personality and social psychology
- 2002
In four studies, the authors examined the correlates of the disposition toward gratitude. Study I revealed that self-ratings and observer ratings of the grateful disposition are associated with… Expand
Interpersonal forgiving in close relationships: II. Theoretical elaboration and measurement.
- M. McCullough, K. C. Rachal, S. Sandage, E. Worthington, S. W. Brown, T. L. Hight
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of personality and social psychology
- 1 December 1998
Interpersonal forgiving was conceptualized in the context of a 2-factor motivational system that governs people's responses to interpersonal offenses. Four studies were conducted to examine the… Expand
Counting blessings versus burdens: an experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life.
- Robert A Emmons, M. McCullough
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of personality and social psychology
- 1 February 2003
The effect of a grateful outlook on psychological and physical well-being was examined. In Studies 1 and 2, participants were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 experimental conditions (hassles, gratitude… Expand
Handbook of Religion and Health
- H. Koenig, M. McCullough, D. Larson
- Psychology
- 2001
This book, the first of its kind, reviews and discusses the full range of research on religion and a variety of mental and physical health outcomes. Based on this research, the authors build… Expand
The Religious Commitment Inventory--10: Development, Refinement, and Validation of a Brief Scale for Research and Counseling.
- E. Worthington, N. Wade, +7 authors L. O'Connor
- Psychology
- 2003
The authors report the development of the Religious Commitment Inventory-10 (RCI-10), used in 6 studies. Sample sizes were 155, 132, and 150 college students; 240 Christian church-attending married… Expand
Conceptualizing Religion and Spirituality: Points of Commonality, Points of Departure
- P. Hill, K. Pargament, +4 authors B. Zinnbauer
- Psychology
- 1 March 2000
Psychologists' emerging interest in spirituality and religion as well as the relevance of each phenomenon to issues of psychological importance requires an understanding of the fundamental… Expand
Interpersonal forgiving in close relationships.
- M. McCullough, E. Worthington, K. C. Rachal
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of personality and social psychology
- 1 August 1997
Forgiving is a motivational transformation that inclines people to inhibit relationship-destructive responses and to behave constructively toward someone who has behaved destructively toward them.… Expand
Is gratitude a moral affect?
- M. McCullough, S. Kilpatrick, Robert A Emmons, D. Larson
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological bulletin
- 1 March 2001
Gratitude is conceptualized as a moral affect that is analogous to other moral emotions such as empathy and guilt. Gratitude has 3 functions that can be conceptualized as morally relevant: (a) a… Expand
Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: Associations, explanations, and implications.
- M. McCullough, Brian L. B. Willoughby
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological bulletin
- 2009
Many of the links of religiousness with health, well-being, and social behavior may be due to religion's influences on self-control or self-regulation. Using Carver and Scheier's (1998) theory of… Expand
Religiousness and depression: evidence for a main effect and the moderating influence of stressful life events.
- T. B. Smith, M. McCullough, J. Poll
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological bulletin
- 1 July 2003
The association between religiousness and depressive symptoms was examined with meta-analytic methods across 147 independent investigations (N = 98,975). Across all studies, the correlation between… Expand