A Survey Of Gratitude Awareness And Behavior Of High School Students In Jurong City

Positive psychology is a new rising field in contemporary psychology research.As one of the important parts of positive psychology, gratitude has become the focus of present research. This study is based on consulting and analysis a large number of domestic and foreign literatures and open investigation, I edited the gratitude questionnaire of high school students,and investigated psychological gratitude of high school students in Jurong city. The results showed that:1.The self-designed gratitude questionnaire of high school students is composed of three factors, which are gratitude cognition, gratitude emotion, and gratitude action. The questionnaire has good reliability and validity, which can be used as a tool for measuring the psychological gratitude of high school students.2.In the factors of gratitude emotion and gratitude action, girls are significantly higher than boys, but there is no remarkable difference in the factor of gratitude cognition.3.There are no remarkable difference in the three factors of gratitude between the high school students:only child and the non-only child, urban students and rural students.4. The first grade in high school is significantly higher than the other two grades in the factor of gratitude action.5. In the factors of gratitude cognition and gratitude emotion, the students from key high school are significantly higher than that from ordinary high school.6.The students of their fathers having high cultural levels are significantly higher than that of their fathers having low cultural levels. In the factor of gratitude emotion, the students of their mathers having low cultural levels are significantly lower than that of their mathers having high cultural levels. 7.On the whole, psychological gratitude of high school students are at a high level, there are significant differences among the three factors of gratitude, the degree of strength is gratitude cognition, gratitude emotion, and gratitude action.Conclusions:1.There is significant gender difference and grade difference in the psychological gratitude of high school students.2.The high school students'psychology of gratitude is difference in different levels of schools.3.The cultural degree of parents has great influence on the high school students'psychology of gratitude.4. Gratitude cognition of high school students are not consistent with their gratitude action.