People with Positive Time Perspective are More Grateful and Happier: Gratitude Mediates the Relationship Between Time Perspective and Life Satisfaction

Aneta Przepiorka () and Malgorzata Sobol-Kwapinska
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Aneta Przepiorka: The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Malgorzata Sobol-Kwapinska: University of Wroclaw

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2021, vol. 22, issue 1, No 6, 113-126

Abstract: Abstract The current study examined the associations between time perspective, dispositional gratitude, and life satisfaction. The aim of the study was to check if gratitude mediates the relationship between time perspectives and life satisfaction. The participants were 591 Polish people aged 18–73 (M = 30, SD 5.45). We used several measures: the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Gratitude Questionnaire, the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, the Carpe Diem Scale, and the Present-Eudaimonic Time Perspective Scale. We found that gratitude played a mediating role between the dimensions of time perspective and life satisfaction. The presented results were interpreted in the context of the Pollyanna effect.

Keywords: Life satisfaction; Dispositional gratitude; Time perspective; Carpe Diem; Present eudaimonic time perspective (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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