Talk:Gratitude

message: I did a major revert of this article because I believe copyrighted text was inserted by Jtsang on 20:28, October 18, 2005. A very large amount of text was added in a single edit and it was completely unlinked (when a person actually writes content on Wikipedia, they tend to do at least some linking). Also, no additions at all were made in subsequent edits. The only changes were some small deletions. I noyt  been unable to find an online source for the content, however, I still strongly feel that this has been copied from somewhere. If anyone disagrees, feel free to revert my revert. -- Kjkolb 10:12, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: The economics of gratitude  "Market transactions only measure a portion of the true economy. Here are ways to extend our resources without additional spending." by Diane Lim Rogers, Csmonitor.com November 24, 2011  99.181.141.143 (talk) 02:43, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
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message: There are many Bible verses on gratitude.  Perhaps the most significant is 1 Thessalonians 5:18.   Captain Dunsel (talk) 19:07, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
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message: I removed " Encyclopedia of Gratitude. A reference book and free website with hundreds of things to be grateful for, from New York Times bestselling author Erich Origen." As the site referred to is now only selling the printed Encyclopedia. Vernon White . . . Talk  19:09, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
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message: Removed the following section, as written, from the article. It was added here, by this editor. (Note: another editor had already removed some of the more obviously non-neutral statements here.) It appears to be WP:OR, and the given 3 references (one of which is a blog) do not support the info preceding them. The original paragraph has been divided into three sections, based on the given references (i.e. text first, then the ref given to support the preceding info).
Heading: "Necessity for, and the benefits of teaching gratitude to elementary-aged students"
Text:
Part I:
"Today's modern world overwhelms children with constant simulations, pressures, stressors, deadlines and technology, actively reducing productivity, learning capability and social competence. Students' academic and personal well-beings are directly associated with the learning environments that they are in, and the situations in which they are placed. Research purports this connection; that a lack of competency in expressing and accepting gratitude is correlated with poor academic, personal and social health, as those students told to focus on the hassles of their daily lives instead of the positives had low satisfaction with their school experiences and high levels of negative self- affect and well-being.
: REF: Poelker, K.E. & Kuebli, J.E. (2014). Does the Thought Count? Gratitude Understanding in Elementay School Students. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 175:5, 431-448. doi: 10.1080/0221325.2014.941321. Retrieved from https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy .library.ubc.ca/doi/pdf/10.1080/00221325.2014.941321?needAccess=true
Part II:
"One effective approach is "appreciative journaling", a technique which requires students to sit down and write or list five to ten things or people in their lives that they are appreciative of or grateful for, negative perspectives are not permitted during this writing period. This exercise actively serves to place students in positive mindsets, leading to improved academic performance and social-emotional health. Studies supports the efficiency of this approach, as appreciative journalling has been positively linked to sustained growth in student social-emotional well-being, optimism, school experience life satisfaction, and less physical complaints and negative emotions.
: REF: Griffith, O.M. (2014, November 17). Gratitude: A Powerful Tool for Your Classroom. Edutopia: George Lucas Educational Foundation. Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/ gratitude-powerful-tool-for-classroom-owen-griffith
Part III:
"That teaching students gratitude skills is imperative to their social-emotional and academic well-being is evident in it being a key component of British Columbia's "Personal and Social" core competency that guides educators' teaching approaches and techniques"
: REF: British Columbia Ministry of Education. (2017). Core Competencies. Retrieved from https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/competencies#personal-social
Problems
* The heading is too long, and needs to be re-written neutrally. Suggested: "Benefits of teaching gratitude to students"
* The reference for Part I is a proxy link, which should have tripped the proxy filter when it was first added. However, the link was broken by placing a space inside the link (probably accidental). Here is the pubmed link for the article (Poelker et al., 2014).
: + This reference does not support anything in the paragraph preceding it. The study was about whether school-aged children were able to comprehend the concept of gratitude, when presented with a scenario involving gift-giving. (The study involved two groups of children whose median ages were 7 and 10.)
: + This whole section may be original research; the given reference actually states (p. 431) that not much research has been done--and little info is known--regarding gratitude in (school-aged and younger) children. And yet seemingly authoritative (but unsourced) statements regarding children/students are made throughout the entire section.
: + Some of the info in the paper's intro/background section is related to info covered in Part II, but it mentions research regarding adults, not elementary-aged children, see next point.
* The reference for Part II is a blog, and talks about using journalling to increase gratitude.  The preceding ref (Poelker et al., 2014) refers to journalling, but only regarding research done on adults and adolescents, not elementary-aged children (p. 432: last para.). So whoever wrote this (Part II: "Studies supports [sic] the efficiency of this approach, as appreciative journalling...") extrapolated the research done on adults and older children--to much younger children, about whom little info is known. This is also original research.
: + Note: the reason this matters is that gratitude is considered a "complex emotion" (p.432, 1st para.). Young children are not thought to be able to fully comprehend it, as adults might; rather, there is a gradual increase in awareness as they grow older (p. 432: end of para 1; para 2). 
: + A similar study in adolescents was mentioned (p. 443: 2nd para.), but the authors make it clear that there is a distinction between school-aged children, vs. adolescents and adults (p. 441: last line). The referenced study, Froh et al., (2008) used subjects from grade 6 and 7, so the children were about 12-13 years old. This is the age around which children have a much more sophisticated understanding of gratitude (Poelker et al., p. 433: para 4.). But this section could possibly be rewritten to cover adolescents; the heading is currently written to be about "elementary-aged" children.
* The reference for Part III does not contain the info alleged therein; it is not on the linked webpage, nor in the linked PDF. Also, the text is not neutral and needs to be reworded--if a source can be found. Otherwise, Part III should probably be removed.
: + Forgot to add - the section, as written, is original research and synthesis, and needs to be improved. Something along the lines of "Teaching students gratitude skills is a key component..." (Except, of course, that this appears to not be the case, as per above--so, a ref for this statement is also needed.)
* The prose needs to be cleaned up. Grammar, phrasing, odd use of terms, punctuation, etc.
* Bottom line, as written, this section shouldn't be included in the article as is. It looks like the info and assertions contained in the section have not even been proven, and certainly not to the extent that it could be included in WP. It appears to largely be original research, and probably WP:SYNTH--but with proper references, the info could possibly be re-worked to address either older, more mature students, or adults (for which there is more info available).
Cheers, Big universe (talk) 03:56, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
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