Charumathi PJ Divya M & Harthi J

Guest Faculty, I Msc HRD Psychology

Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology
University of Madras University of Madras
 Positive psychology is the scientific study of
ordinary human strength and virtues. Positive
psychology revisits “the average person”, with
an interest in finding out what works, what is
right, and what is wrong, and what is
improving. (Sheldon & king, as cited in
Chadha, Bhatia & Sharma, 2012)
 Positive psychologists contended that gratitude is more
than feeling thankful for something, it is more like a
deeper appreciation for someone (or something) which
produces longer lasting positivity. Gratitude is an emotion
similar to appreciation that most people familiar with.

Hope emphasizes cognitions that are built on goal-

directed thought. Hope is defined as goal-directed
thinking in which the person utilizes pathways thinking
(the perceived capacity to find routes to desired goals)
and agency thinking (the requisite motivations to use
those routes).
 Psychological Well-being refers to the achievement of
one’s full psychological potential.

 Ryff & Keyes thus spoke of psychological well-being

as distinct from Subjective well-being and presented a
multidimensional approach to the measurement of
psychological well-being that taps six distinct aspects
of human actualization: Autonomy, Environmental
Mastery, Personal Growth, Positive Relations,
Purpose in Life and self-acceptance.
 OBJECTIVE
To determine the relationship of
gratitude, hope and psychological
well-being among female college
students
 Hypotheses

 There will be a significant positive relationship

between Gratitude an Psychological Well-being
among female college students.

 There will be a significant positive relationship

between Hope and Psychological Well being
among female college students.
 Method of Investigation
• Ex-post-Facto research design

• Convenience sampling Procedure

• Sample- 94 college students

• Only female college students

• Age range 17-24 years and the mean age is 20 years.

• The data was collected using Gratitude questionnaire, the

hope scale and Ryff’s Psychological Well-being scale.
 Tool Description

Gratitude McCullough,EM,
Gratitude
questionnaire Emmons 2002

Synder,C.R,
Hope The Hope Scale
Harris,C, Anderson 1991

Psychological Ryff’s Psychological

Well-being Well-being scale
Ryff Carol 1989
Pearson’s Product moment
Correlation
 Psychological Well-being
Variables
r

Gratitude Pearson Correlation .034

Significance (2-tailed) .745

N 94
**
Hope Pearson Correlation .384

Significance (2-tailed) .000

N 94

**. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

• The hypothesis stating that Gratitude will be positively
related to Psychological Well-being among female
college students is not accepted

• The hypothesis stating that Hope will be positively

related to Psychological Well-being among female
college students is accepted
 Findings
• Gratitude is not related to Psychological Well-
being

• However, Hope is Positively related to

Psychological Well-being.
 LIMITATIONS
• The study was conducted to a limited number of
samples.
• The study focuses only on females.
• The study used convenience sampling method
which included only the college students.
• The study could have been done for a larger
population that includes participants from
different cultures
 SUGGESTIONS
• The way of being grateful can be thought to
students.

• And the importance of gratitude in daily living

can be given more importance.