MCGM-SY Colombian sample Uniandes
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The study explored the psychometric properties of the Multi-Component Gratitude Measure (MCGM), in Spanish with a sample of Colombian children. The MCGM aims to examine more comprehensively the moral virtue of gratitude as a construct with 3 components (emotional, conative/attitudinal, and behavioral) distributed across 6 subscales. We translated the MCGM into Spanish and validated the factor structure in a principal component analysis, basing the analysis on the 6 subscales. The sample was composed of 540 schoolchildren between 8–12 years old (265 females, mean age 10.04 years; 75 males, mean age 10.08 years). Children completed a questionnaire using the QualtricsXM survey platform. The database includes the participants' raw scores on each one questionnaire items and sociodemographic variables. The codebook is displayed in another excel sheet. We corroborated that gratitude was understood as a complex, multi-component construct from children's perspectives. Overall, the MCGM subscales showed good reliability coefficients between 0.7 and 0.9. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that a 5-factor model structure (obtained in the PCA), uniting two original subscales (feelings of gratitude and attitudes to gratitude) into a single subscale, presented the best-adjusted fit indices.
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Multi-Component Gratitude Measure (MCGM) The original MCGM questionnaire was kindly provided by its authors (Morgan et al., 2017). The MCGM consists of 29 items grouped into 6 subscales (Feelings of gratitude, Attitudes toward gratitude, Attitudes toward the appropriateness of gratitude, Behavioral shortcomings, Rituals / noticing benefits of gratitude, and Expressions of gratitude), which in turn are clustered into 3 frameworks of understanding gratitude: emotion, attitudes, and behavior (see Table 2). The emotional component has one subscale, Feelings of gratitude (items 1 to 6). The attitudinal component is divided into two subscales: Attitudes of gratitude (items 7 to 10) and Attitudes to appropriateness (items 11 to 16). The behavioral component is divided into three subscales – Behavioral shortcomings (items 17 to 20), Rituals/noticing benefits (items 21 to 25), and Expressions of gratitude (items 26 to 29) See the linked article for more details.