Understanding the Relation between Gratitude and Life Satisfaction among Adolescents in a Post-Disaster Context: Mediating Roles of Social Support, Self-Esteem, and Hope

Xiao Zhou, Rui Zhen and Xinchun Wu ()
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Xiao Zhou: Zhejiang University
Rui Zhen: Hangzhou Normal University
Xinchun Wu: Beijing Normal University

Child Indicators Research, 2019, vol. 12, issue 5, No 15, 1795 pages

Abstract: Abstract The present study assesses the underlying mechanism of gratitude on life satisfaction among adolescents in a post-disaster context. The mediating roles of social support, self-esteem, and hope are also examined in the relation between gratitude and life satisfaction. Two and a half years after the Ya’an earthquake, 397 adolescents were selected from the most severely affected county of Lushan to answer self-reported questionnaires. After controlling for trauma severity, gratitude can have a positive association with life satisfaction through the following routes: one one-mediator paths of hope, two two-mediator paths of social support via self-esteem and self-esteem via hope, and one three-mediator path from social support to hope via self-esteem. These findings suggested that following a natural disaster, adolescent survivors’ gratitude may have an indirect and positive relation with life satisfaction by social support, self-esteem, and hope.

Keywords: Gratitude; Social support; Self-esteem; Hope; Life satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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