The Impact of Gratitude Practice on Peer Relationships and Empathy Among Adolescents

Gratitude is an emotion like appreciation involves being thankful recognizing that something happens to you it is also for acknowledging that someone is responsible for it may be specific person in your life, an impersonal source like nature or divine entity. Gratitude practices are not complex of difficult; it doesn’t need to be practice by any specific tools or training. The more you practice it the better you become and put yourself in a grateful state of mind. Gratitude practice involves gratitude journaling, gratitude wall or board activity, gratitude letters gratitude meditation or reflection. Gratitude journaling is recording or reflecting things that you are grateful for on a regular basis. This is an intervention study that aims to discern the effects of gratitude practices on peer relationships and empathy among adolescents. a sample over 30 adolescents by using Quasi-experimental design for data collection, utilizing the ‘peer relationships questionnaire Rigby & Slee (1993) and Bukowski (1994)’ and ‘empathy questionnaire for adolescents Davis’s Interpersonal Reactivity Index (1983) and Bryant’s Empathy Index for Children and Adolescents (1982)’. the finding from this study are expected to reveal a high level of peer relationship and high level of empathy by using gratitude practices among adolescents. This research contributes valuable insights into to gratitude practices impaction on peer relationship and empathy of adolescents