Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38740823›Full record

ArticleScientific reports2024

Gratitude practice helps undergraduates who experienced an earthquake in China find meaning in life.

Xueli Cai, Ningyi Zhou, Junpeng Chen, Zhuozhu Mao, Shujun Wang, Zaibing Luo, Mei Xie, Yanhui Mao

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Xueli CaiInstitute of Applied Psychology, Psychological Research and Counseling Center, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China.
Ningyi ZhouInstitute of Applied Psychology, Psychological Research and Counseling Center, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China.
Junpeng ChenSchool of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Zhuozhu MaoInstitute of Education, University College London, London, UK.
Shujun WangInstitute of Applied Psychology, Psychological Research and Counseling Center, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China.
Zaibing LuoSchool of Foreign Languages, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China.
Mei XieDepartment of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. mei.xie@uniroma1.it.
Yanhui MaoInstitute of Applied Psychology, Psychological Research and Counseling Center, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. yanhui.mao@swjtu.edu.cn.

Funding

China Scholarship Council 202207000022National Natural Science Foundation of China grant Nos. 71801180, 71871201, 72271205Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province 24NSFSC1389The 2022 Graduate Students' Educational Research Program and the 2023 International Student Education Management Research project issued by Southwest Jiaotong University grant Nos. YJG5-2022-Z019 and 23LXSGL06
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study was conducted following a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that occurred in early September 2022, coinciding with the commencement of a positive psychology course for the affected students. A sample of 479 Chinese undergraduates was recruited for an intervention focused on weekly gratitude practice. Data were collected through an online questionnaire package at 3 time points: the first week of the course (Time 1), the fifth week (Time 2), and the ninth week (Time 3), assessing gratitude, learning engagement, and the meaning of life. Findings revealed that gratitude significantly predicted meaning in life through learning engagement over time. This highlights the significant mediating role of learning engagement in the context of earthquakes and provides insights for positive interventions aimed at facilitating personal growth among emerging adults in higher educational settings, particularly those who have experienced traumatic events such as earthquakes.

Indexed as

EarthquakesStudentsAdolescentAdultChinaFemaleHumansLearningMaleSurveys and QuestionnairesUniversitiesYoung AdultEarthquakeGratitudeLearning engagementMeaning in lifeUniversity students

Identifiers

PMID38740823
PMCPMC11091175

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.