READ ME File For Data: The Benefits of Children's Gratitude: Identifying Mediators and Designing a New Measure Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1993 ReadMe Author: Sophie Smith, University of Southampton, ORCID ID 0000-0001-7462-9811 This dataset supports the thesis entitled 'The Benefits of Children's Gratitude: Identifying Mediators and Designing a New Measure' AWARDED BY: University of Southampton DATE OF AWARD: 2021 DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA This is an SPSS file. It contains responses from 107 Year 4 and 5 children to the Questionnaire of Appreciation in Youth (QUAY), a measure of children's gratitude developed as part of this thesis, as well as the school year and gender of each participant. Data were collected remotely, using Qualtrics. The selected cases are those used for the exploratory factor analysis in this research. Date of data collection: February - June 2021 Information about geographic location of data collection: Licence: All rights reserved DATA ACCESS CONDITIONS Data is only to be shared with bone fide researchers with ethics clearance. Researchers must agree to: - Not share the data further - Not to try to reidentify participants - Cite dataset correctly if they use the data in published research - Let University of Southampton know if they publish using the data by emailing eprints@soton.ac.uk Date that the file was created: October 2021 --------------