2018 Volume 33 Pages 325-332
A person's personality plays an important role in maintaining a resilient life affer a disaster(i.e. power to live with disasters). Two studies were conducted to investigate the association of trait gratitude with the power to live with disasters. The first study asked participants to complete the Big Five Inventory, Trait Gratitude Scale, and a scale for an eight-factor model of the power to live. After controlling for gender and the Big Five, results revealed that gratitude accounted for variance in leadership, altruism, etiquette, emotional regulation, and self -transcendence.The second study addressed the causal effect by application of gratitude intervention. Although the effects of trait gratitude were replicated, the intervention did not change the power to live, thereby lending no support for the causal relation.
