Generate Greater Gratitude When Being Help? A Study of the Psychological Mechanism of Gratitude for Chinese Poor College Students

Applied Research in Quality of Life - Tập 18 - Trang 1875-1893 - 2023
Xiaoqing Zeng1, Yahui Chen1, Yeqing Li2
1School of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
2School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Tóm tắt

The Chinese government has invested much money to help poor college students complete their studies, but the gratitude of the recipients remains to be further studied. This study proposed a parallel mediation model and used questionnaires to investigate 260 thousand college students of China to examine the impact of the level of social support on poor college students’ gratitude and the mediating role played by social responsibility and relative deprivation. The results showed that social support positively predicted the gratitude level of poor college students; social responsibility and relative deprivation mediated the relationship between social support and gratitude; gender, school type and difficulty level had a significant influence on gratitude level. In short, education to improve the sense of gratitude of poor college students can be summarized as “two increases and one decrease”: increase social support, enhance social responsibility, and reduce relative deprivation.

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