Establishing social relationships and achieving a sense of identity are two
main challenges in adolescents that occur in the backdrop of many changes (e.g.,
physical, sexual, cognitive, and emotional). Such turbulence may make a grateful
outlook difficult to hold, but doing so may be beneficial and transformative. It can
focus people on the good turns in their life and the enablers that likely played a
role, if they only took a moment to look. The above quote, written by a student in
a study on gratitude and youth (Froh, 2008), illustrates this nicely.