Counseling "problem employees" can be a painful experience for everyone involved. The counseling process often fails because forgiveness is not a part of organizational culture in the United States. This author stresses the need for a forgiveness plan that will enable employees to recommit to their jobs

the relationships between forgiveness and d-type personality with hope in patient with coronary heart disease in urmia city     issazadegan a [1] , shykhi s [2] , banehasmishishevan sr [3] , salmanpour h [4]     received: 12 oct, 2011 accepted: 15 jan, 2012     abstract   background & aims : many studies have demonstrated the role of psychological and behavioral risk factors in the etiology and...

Aims: The purpose of the present study was to compare individuals with and without alcohol dependence in terms forgiveness, shame, guilt. A further investigate association shame guilt dependence.
 Methods: Fifty-five 55 (based on ICD-10 criteria) were compared using Heartland Forgiveness Scale (HFS), Trait Shame Guilt (TSGS).
 Results: Individuals showed a significantly lower level se...

Given the strong emotional dimension of committed relationships it is perhaps not surprising that significant research attention has been focused on the role of forgiveness within marriage and other forms of romantic partnerships. Clinicians who work with couples often find themselves addressing situations in therapy where one partner has hurt the other in some way. So what is the impact of for...

Friendships fulfill needs for intimacy, belonging, and support yet have rarely been the focus of forgiveness research. In this study, we explored forgiveness, unforgiveness, young adults’ experiences transgressions in same-sex friendships ( N = 407). Our results suggest that, although unforgiveness share important antecedents (e.g., apology status, perceived remorse, barriers to forgiveness), t...

This study investigates self-forgiveness for real hurts committed against the partner in a romantic relationship (N = 168 couples). Using a dyadic perspective, we evaluated whether offender self-forgiveness, conceived as a bidimensional construct distinct from self-excusing, was uniquely related to both own and partner relationship satisfaction. For both males and females, offending partners we...

Several studies tested whether partner-focused prayer shifts individuals toward cooperative tendencies and forgiveness. In Studies 1 and 2, participants who prayed more frequently for their partner were rated by objective coders as less vengeful. Study 3 showed that, compared to partners of targets in the positive partner thought condition, the romantic partners of targets assigned to pray repo...