The Gratitude Questionaire (GQ-6) | Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Sciences

Abstract

Gratitude, like other affects, conceivably could exist as an affective trait, a mood, or an emotion. The article associated with this paper is concerned primarily with gratitude as an affective trait that we call the grateful disposition or disposition toward gratitude. The grateful disposition is defined here as as a generalized tendency to recognize and respond with grateful emotion to the roles of other people’s benevolence in the positive experiences and outcomes that one obtains.The Gratitude Questionnaire-Six-Item Form (GQ-6) is a six-item self-report questionnaire designed to assess individual differences in the proneness to experience gratitude in daily life. Respondents endorse each item on a 7-point Likert-type scale (where 1 = strongly disagree and 7 = strongly agree).