This pilot study compared the efficacy of a forgiveness intervention with a fibromyalgia (FM) health intervention on women with FM who have experienced emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, and emotional or physical neglect, in childhood by one of their parents. Eleven women with FM between the ages of 21 and 68 were randomized to the forgiveness intervention (n = 5) or the FM health interventi...

Research has revealed that forgiveness may have beneficial effects for the forgiver's health. The present research explored whether reductions in anger underlie such effects, or whether forgiveness has beneficial health effects above and beyond the effects of decreasing anger. State and trait forgiveness were examined, along with styles of anger expression, for their relationship to physiologic...

In the present article, we review the literature on religion/spirituality (R/S) and forgiveness using meta-analysis. R/S was positively related to trait forgivingness (i.e., across relationships and situations; r .29), state forgiveness (i.e., of a specific offense; r .15), and self-forgiveness (r .12). Contextual measures of R/S more proximal to the forgiveness process were more strongly relat...

Six studies regarding forgiveness are presented. The Heartland Forgiveness Scale (HFS), a self-report measure of dispositional forgiveness (with subscales to assess forgiveness of self, others, and situations) was developed and demonstrated good psychometric properties. Forgiveness correlated positively with cognitive flexibility, positive affect, and distraction; it correlated negatively with ...

This study extended forgiveness research by examining the relationships between narcissism, guilt, selfesteem, Agreeableness, and forgiveness of others, self, and situations (N = 176). Narcissistic entitlement was negatively related, andAgreeableness positively related, to forgiveness of others.Narcissism and the other personality variables were related to self-forgiveness and forgiveness of si...

This article examines some of the complexities apology–forgiveness nexus within context intergroup apologies by church and state for historical institutional abuse (HIA). Drawing on primary research conducted in Ireland, North South, including voices a sample victims/survivors, it argues that effective HIA extent to which they might elicit forgiveness among victimized communities are impacted r...

ABSTRACT: EMOTION REGULATION AND FORGIVENESS IN CYBERBULLYING ADOLESCENCE VICTIM Forgiveness is related to the ability control oneself and negative emotions in form of hatred desire take revenge on those who have hurt. Emotion regulation needs be done eliminate replace them with positive emotions. This study aims determine relationship between emotion forgiveness adolescent victims cyberbullyin...

This study examined the temporal course of self–forgiveness using 8 waves of data collected from 148 participants. Self–forgiveness increased linearly over time, and fluctuations in 6 time–varying covariates were related to changes in self–forgiveness beyond those accounted for by the self–forgiveness trajectory. Decreases in guilt, perceived transgression severity, and conciliatory behavior to...

Testing the idea that the process of forgiveness is intrinsically different across diverse relationships, this study examined the role of forgiveness in different family relationships. In 2 laboratory sessions 1 year apart, 114 families (each including 2 parents and 1 child) completed a new measure of family forgiveness and many individual-level, relationship-level, and family-level variables t...