GRATITUDE OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN SCALES IN THE WORLD AND DIRECTIONS FOR SCALE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF VIETNAM

DOI: 10.18173/2354-1075.2024-0091

Abstract

The gratitude of preschool children is a positive emotion, bringing many physical, psychological, and social benefits to them. Determining the level of their gratitude with an appropriate scale will be an important basis for educational impacts to improve it. By reviewing, synthesizing, analyzing, and evaluating related research works, the article introduces some preschool children's gratitude scales in the world that have been built and used. These scales are mainly in the form of questionnaires or checklists, measured directly on children or through parents. Based on that and the theoretical research results on the gratitude of preschool children, the article provides directions to develop a preschool children's gratitude scale within the