Cross-Cultural Survey on Gratitude Correlates Across Six Religious Groups, 2021

2,974 participants from six countries and religious majorities completed an online survey on the motivational correlates of gratitude. The dataset, created by Vishkin, Allon and approved by Artis International's IRB in 2021, includes 2,093 participants who passed attention checks, with samples from the United States, India, Israel, Poland, South Korea, and Turkey. It contains measures of desired and experienced gratitude, emotions, religiosity, and demographics.

Use Cases

• Analyze cultural differences in gratitude expression based on survey measures across six religious groups.
• Model relationships between religiosity and desired emotions using the Religious Commitment Inventory scores.
• Compare lay beliefs about emotions and their correlation with experienced gratitude across different cultures.
• Study the motivational correlates of gratitude, such as desire for closeness or indebtedness, within specific religious contexts.

Strengths

• Includes 2,093 validated responses from participants across six distinct cultural and religious groups.
• Survey employed translated versions and standardized psychological instruments like the Scale of Positive and Negative Emotions.
• Provides detailed demographic breakdowns including sample size, mean age, and gender percentage for each group.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the final dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data reflects a specific bias by focusing only on individuals affiliating with their country's majority religion.

Provenance

Source

Vishkin, Allon; ODUM Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Online survey administered via panels (e.g., Prolific, CloudResearch, Embrain).

Time Range

2021

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-12 16:12:42; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States, India, Israel, Poland, South Korea, Turkey