Autonomy in Gratitude Intervention for Taiwanese Elementary Students, 2022

152 Taiwanese elementary-school students participated in a 5-week field experiment comparing gratitude interventions with and without autonomy support. The study measured effects on gratitude, emotions, life satisfaction, and academic engagement, and collected qualitative materials like gratitude notes and drawings. The dataset was authored by Hsiang-Lien Chen and last updated in October 2025.

Use Cases

• Compare intervention effects on gratitude and life satisfaction based on the described pre- and post-test questionnaires.
• Analyze the impact of autonomy support on academic engagement based on the described experimental conditions.
• Study qualitative expressions of gratitude based on the collected notes, diaries, and drawings.
• Evaluate the longitudinal effects of a 5-week school-based program based on the described study design.

Strengths

• Includes data from 152 students with a balanced gender distribution (54.6% girls, 45.4% boys).
• Combines quantitative survey data with qualitative materials like gratitude notes and drawings.
• Describes a controlled field experiment with two parallel intervention conditions across four 3rd-grade and two 5th-grade classes.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and age-group bias inherent to the sample of Taiwanese elementary students.

Provenance

Source

Chen, Hsiang-Lien; ODUM Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Field experiment with pre-test, 5-week in-class intervention, and post-test, administered by teachers.

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-12 16:27:28; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Taiwan