Growing in Gratitude during COVID-19

The aims of the project are to:

• investigate the protective role of gratitude against the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on feelings of social isolation, coping mechanisms, symptoms of psychological distress (symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress) and posttraumatic growth across time in different phases of the pandemic.
• develop, implement and test, longitudinally, the impact of a four-week gratitude intervention on one’s psychological distress (symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress), subjective well-being, compassion, feeling of social connectedness, resilience and post-traumatic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic
• analyse systematic intraindividual variability in participants’ levels of well-being depending on their daily events during the COVID-19 pandemic and whether one practices gratitude or not
• provide qualitative data to the existing studies through interviews on the subjective role of gratitude and gratitude practice during the COVID-19 pandemic.