HOW THIS TEST WORKS
How How Grateful Am I? works
How version core-v1 is scored, and what it can and cannot tell you.
How it is scored
Gratitude means noticing and appreciating the good in your life, and often thanking the people behind it. Research links it with better mood, stronger relationships, and better sleep (Emmons and McCullough, 2003; Algoe, 2012). Reviews of gratitude exercises, like writing thank-you letters, find small but real benefits for many people, with effects that vary (Davis and others, 2016). Researchers also warn that forced gratitude can backfire (Wood and others, 2010).
This test looks at five areas: noticing the good, thanking people, feeling you have enough, appreciation in hard times, and receiving kindness. Each area has eight sentences. Half describe a grateful habit and half describe the opposite, so you cannot get a high score just by agreeing with everything. Each answer gives 0 to 4 points.
Each area score runs from 0 to 100, and a higher score means a stronger gratitude habit. Your overall score is the average of the five. Scores are read as Low (0 to 33), Medium (34 to 66), or High (67 to 100). These levels show how you answered. They do not compare you with other people.
PersonalitySite.com wrote all of these questions and descriptions. They are not copied from any other test.
What it cannot tell you
This test is for learning about yourself. It is not a diagnosis. It cannot tell you if you have depression or any other condition. Do not use it to hire, judge, rank, or label people.
A lower score does not mean you are ungrateful or selfish. Hard times, low mood, and unfair treatment all make gratitude harder to feel. Gratitude is also not a cure for anything, and its benefits in research are modest.
This version has not yet been tested with a large group of people, so we do not yet know how accurate it is.