Wellbeing
Gratitude
6 questions · 2 min
Gratitude is the sense of being thankful for the good things in your life and the people who help bring them. This questionnaire looks at how strongly and how often you feel grateful, for how many things, and towards how many people.
It describes your general tendency rather than a single day. It’s most useful for seeing how your own answers change over time.
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What it shows
How much you tend to feel grateful in your daily life.
What it doesn’t
A measure of how good or polite a person you are, or a diagnosis.
Who it’s for
This check is for anyone curious about how much thankfulness shows up in their everyday life. Some people take it before starting a habit like writing down good moments, and again a few months later to see whether anything has shifted.
It’s also a gentle prompt to notice the people and things you appreciate. It describes your general tendency rather than one good or bad day, so it’s best taken when you can think about your life as a whole.
Questions people ask
What does the GQ-6 measure?
It measures your general tendency to feel grateful: how strongly and how often you feel thankful, for how many things, and towards how many people.
How long does it take?
There are six statements, which take about 2 minutes. For each one, you choose how much you agree, from strongly disagree to strongly agree.
How is the GQ-6 scored?
Each answer counts from 1 to 7, and two statements are flipped so that a higher score always means more gratitude. They’re added up for a score from 6 to 42. There are no official cut-offs, so the result groups scores into rough ranges that aren’t norms.
Does a low score mean I’m ungrateful?
No. It isn’t a measure of how good or polite a person you are, and it isn’t a diagnosis. Gratitude can be harder to feel during stressful times, and it often comes and goes.
How often can I retake it?
Every six months or so. Your general tendency changes slowly, so a longer gap makes changes easier to see.
Who developed the Gratitude Questionnaire?
Psychologists Michael McCullough, Robert Emmons and Jo-Ann Tsang, in 2002.
Where it comes from
Developed by psychologists Michael McCullough, Robert Emmons and Jo-Ann Tsang in 2002.
Gratitude Questionnaire
On iPhone or iPad?
Sprout is an app there too, and this link opens the test straight away if you have it.
Coming soon to the App Store