READ ME File For Data: The Benefits of Children's Gratitude: Identifying Mediators and Designing a New Measure Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/XXXXXX 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: Univeristy 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: CC-BY Date that the file was created: June 2021 --------------