Gratitude is the emotion of being thankful and grateful, often from help you received from others. Gratitude has been a long-term focus of philosophy and many world religions and it has been noted that gratitude can exist as a short-term emotional state, or can exist as an ongoing personality trait.
A recent focus of study in Positive Psychology is the difference between the short-term emotion of gratitude and the personality trait of gratitude are being investigated.
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Mohammed Looti, PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES (2023) Gratitude. Retrieved from https://scales.arabpsychology.com/terms/gratitude/. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.31575.96163