THE ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE
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2012
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The following article would affirm the fact that gratitude is the best attitude. Gratitude is
a feeling, emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or
will receive. Religions and philosophies have long embraced gratitude as an
indispensable manifestation of virtue, and as an integral component of health,
wholeness, and well-being. Scientists are latecomers to the concept of gratitude. The
systematic study of gratitude within psychology began only around the year 2000,
possibly because psychology has traditionally been focused more on understanding
distress rather than understanding positive emotions. However, with the advent of the
positive psychology movement (Linley et al., 2006), gratitude has become a mainstream
focus of psychological research (Wood, Joseph and Linley, 2007). Of all the areas
studied in the relatively young field of positive psychology, gratitude has perhaps the
widest body of research.