©ARC Page | 179 Teaching of Gratitude among the Students of Secondary School as a Means of Well-Being

“If only prayer you say in your life is “thank you ” it would be enough.”—Meister Eckhart Abstract: Gratitude is a moral, actively pro-social and emotive expression where one acknowledges a gift, recognizes the value of the gift and appreciates the intention of the donor. The present paper is an attempt to focus on the implication of gratitude on social well-being and subjective life satisfaction. It also attempts to develop some skills to cultivate gratitude. Gratitude has very significant implication on the life satisfaction and subjective well-being of an individual. Through this it also contributes to social well-being. Despite such significance, positive emotions like gratitude and the strengths of life has been getting less importance in scientific psychological study. So, present paper is an effort to bridge such gaps in Indian context. Present study highlights that gratitude can enhance social well-being as a moral barometer, moral reinforce and moral motivator. Gratitude plays a critical role in happiness of an individual. Therefore, it is necessary to develop certain skills to teach gratitude in scientific way not only as a moral virtue. Researches, conducted in the field of Positive Psychology support that skills of well-being can be taught and learnt scientifically. Positive Psychology research also discovered that cultivating the skills of well-being works as an antidote of depression, vehicle of life satisfaction and as a means of creative thinking. On the basis of such discoveries present study tested the effectiveness of some skills in cultivating gratitude. I