A three-item likert scale designed to measure the degree to which a person feels a sense of emotional appreciation for unspecified benefits received from a certain party.
7-point Likert (1=strongly disagree, 7=strongly agree)
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Internal consistency (alpha = .94) was reported in the primary study. Factor analytic procedures were used to support the scale's structural validity.
McCullough, Michael E., Robert A. Emmons, and Jo-Ann Tsang (2002), “The Grateful Disposition: A Conceptual and Empirical Topography,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82 (January), 112–27.
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