Measuring Gratitude among University and Religious Students: An Enquiry into the psychometric features of the Gratitude Questionnaire

The main purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric features of the gratitude questionnaire. Having become certain of the validity of translation, 335 respondents were selected by way of accessible sampling. Of these respondents, 240 were university students and 95 religious students (163 women and 172 men). The participants replied to four measurement standards i.e. "gratitude questionnaire", "spirituality self-evaluation standard", "nominative happiness standard" and "standard for satisfaction from life". For analysis of the data from the statistical indicators and methods including profuseness, average, standard deviation, Pearson's correlation test, regression and analysis of discovery factor were used. The analysis of discovery factor with an intentional rotation revealed that the gratitude questionnaire is saturated from a single factor. The index of the reliability of the standard was received at 0.81. The direction and degree of gratitude with the said standards was in line with the previous researches and a confirmation of the validity of their correlation. A comparison between the gratitude marks of the groups showed that the marks of the religious students were meaningfully higher than those of the university students. Given the findings of this research, it can be said the gratitude questionnaire (GQ-6) can be implemented for gratitude evaluation in Iran.