Gratitude and Resilience among Elderly and Young People

Gratitude and resilience both have been an area of interest among researchers. Resilience can be understood as person’s ability to successfully adapt to the life tasks in the phase of any adverse conditions. Gratitude can be understood as a feeling and expression of appreciation towards someone. The current study aims to present a comparative picture of resilience and gratitude between elderly and young adults while also contrasting other demographic variable such as gender and education. Study also aims to present a relationship of different demographic variables with gratitude and resilience. It was found that significant difference does exist between gratitude, resilience and the demographic variables. Associations were found to be significant between resilience, gratitude and two out of three demographic variable, age and gender.