Research has shown that gratitude makes people happier (McCullough and Tsang in Psychol Gratitude, Oxford University Press, pp 123–141, <CitationRef CitationID="CR24">2004</CitationRef>; Wood et al. in Clin Psychol Rev 30(7):890–905, <CitationRef CitationID="CR38">2010</CitationRef>), healthier (McCullough et al. in J Pers Soc Psychol, 86(2):295–309, <CitationRef CitationID="CR27">2004</CitationRef>), more considerate...</citationref></citationref></citationref>

Based on the framework of the broaden-and-build theory (Fredrickson in Philos Trans R Soc B Biol Sci 359(1449):1367, <CitationRef CitationID="CR18">2004a</CitationRef>, <CitationRef CitationID="CR19">b</CitationRef>), we proposed that the emotion of gratitude generates upstream reciprocity (UR, which is helping an unrelated third party after being helped) by broadening the...</citationref></citationref>

Since the positive psychology was emerged from 2000s, these positive constructs contribute to athlete’s well-being received much attention in sport. However, gratitude is a topic rarely discussed in the sport psychology. Thus, the current study aims at investigated the relationship between...