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The Online Survey Generator Qualtrics

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Participants Participants were college students from various locations and universities recruited via an online invitation to participate in the study. The study was advertised on Facebook and was posted to numerous groups and pages pertaining to college students. 9 participants were male and 15 participants were female. 0 participants were in their first year of college, 5 participants were in their second year of college, 10 participants were in their third year of college, 5 participants were in their fourth year of college, and 3 participants were in their fifth year or more of college. Participants were predominately Liberal Arts students. Participants were predominately from Austin, TX.
Materials
The online survey generator Qualtrics was utilized to design and distribute the survey. The survey contained several demographic questions including gender, area of study, year of college, and age. An adapted short term version based off of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) (Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein, 1983) was developed to measure short term perceived stress. The adapted version of the PSS used can be found in Appendix C. The Gratitude Adjectives Checklist (GAC) (Mccullough, Emmons, & Tsang, 2002) was used to measure state gratitude. The GAC can be found in Appendix D.
Gratitude was operationalized by informing participants they would be assigned to one of two conditions where one condition was less desirable than the other and giving the participants the more

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