Abstract
The present study aimed to assess interpersonal gratitude within the
context of the Systemic Transactional Model (STM) which viewed stress
and coping as a dyadic process. This model posited that the impacts of
individuals’ stress crossover to the partner causing him/her stress too.
Both partners use various positive and negative coping strategies
collectively called dyadic coping (DC). Based on the STM, a new form
of gratitude i.e., Dyadic Coping Based Gratitude (DC-G) has been
defined as an expression of gratitude on the part of the stressed partner in
response to the problem-focused and emotion-focused positive DC
behaviors of the non-stressed partner in the times of stress. To operationally define the DC-G, Dyadic Coping Based Gratitude
Questionnaire (DC-GQ) has been developed that contains 12 items
covering two subscales; emotion-focused DC-based gratitude (six items)
and problem-focused DC-based gratitude (six items). For the empirical
evaluation of DC-GQ, data were collected from the purposively drawn
600 Pakistani married adults (300 men & 300 women) with the men’s
age (M = 41.59, SD = 10.96) and women’s age (M = 37.16, SD = 9.55)
who had been in the marital relationship for at least two years. Results
demonstrated the factor structure of the DC-GQ to be consistent with the
theoretical framework of the STM and DC-GQ is a reliable and valid
measure for use with Pakistani married adults. Implications of the study
have been discussed within the cultural context of Pakistan.
Sultan Shujja, PhD, Guy Bodenmann, PhD, Ashley K Randall, PhD, Adnan Adil, PhD, Farah Malik, PhD. (2022) Development and Validation of the Dyadic Coping Based Gratitude Questionnaire (DC-GQ), Journal of Behavioural Sciences, volume-32, issue 2.
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