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Scherer, Michael. "Forgiveness and the Bottle: Promoting Self-forgiveness with Alcohol Misuse." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2109.
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Forgiveness research has seldom been directed toward alcohol use, misuse, and abuse. To date, forgiveness research in the realm of alcohol use, misuse, and abuse has focused on interpersonal consequences (e.g., Lin, Mack, Enright, Krahn, & Baskin, 2005; Scherer, Worthington, Hook, Campana, West, & Gartner, 2009; Worthington, Scherer, & Cooke, 2006), but has paid minimal attention to intrapersonal consequences. Psychologists today are just beginning to explore the complex and murky waters of self-forgiveness (or lack of it) and the alcohol misuser (e.g., Webb, Robinson, Brower, & Zucker, 2006). In the current dissertation, I review the literature on self-forgiveness, drinking refusal self-efficacy, and alcohol misuse. To explore this phenomena, I created a four-hour self-forgiveness intervention based off Worthington’s (2005) REACH model and motivational interviewing techniques (Miller & Rollnick, 2002). I then conducted the study utilizing a waitlist design with a sample of participants (N = 38) undergoing a routine alcohol rehabilitation protocol in one of two mental health centers in Michigan. The four-hour intervention delivered over three group therapy sessions was found to significantly promote reported levels of self-forgiveness, drinking refusal self-efficacy, and significantly decrease feelings of state guilt and state shame over an alcohol-related offense. I attempt to illustrate the necessity and practicality of the current research in standard addiction treatment. I then discuss in detail the self-forgiveness intervention tailored for alcohol misusing populations and discuss the results. Finally, I will provide a general discussion of the results of the self-forgiveness intervention and how the findings relate to the current body of literature.
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Coomes, Steven P. "Exploring Predictors of Self-Forgiveness." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1609166/.
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Self-forgiveness is a growing sub-field of the broader study of forgiveness, and initial research has linked self-forgiveness to positive mental and physical health outcomes. However, the extant literature on self-forgiveness is in its infancy, and there is a need for further research to understand the predictors of self-forgiveness and the clinical implications that might follow. The current study aimed to build on the extant literature by exploring two sets of predictors of self-forgiveness: (1) the four Rs as proposed in Cornish and Wade's four-R therapeutic model of self-forgiveness (i.e., responsibility, remorse, restoration, and renewal) and (2) personality as measured by the Big Five. This study also explored how responsibility for the offense and humility might moderate the relationship between self-forgiveness and well-being. Participants were undergraduates recruited from a large, public university in the southwestern United States. They were instructed to describe a recent interpersonal offense they had committed and complete a questionnaire. The overall results suggest that there is a negative cross-sectional relationship between responsibility, remorse, and restoration with self-forgiveness and that, when taken together, the four-Rs account for a significant amount of variance in self-forgiveness. Neuroticism was negatively associated with self-forgiveness while conscientiousness and extraversion were positively associated with self-forgiveness. The Big Five collectively accounted for a significant amount of variance in self-forgiveness. Finally, neither responsibility or humility were found to moderate the relationship between self-forgiveness and well-being. Limitations, suggestions for future research, and clinical implications are discussed.
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Toussaint, L., J. R. Webb, and Jameson K. Hirsch. "Self-Forgiveness, Addiction, and Recovery." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/470.
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Book Summary: The present volume is a ground-breaking and agenda-setting investigation of the psychology of self-forgiveness. It brings together the work of expert clinicians and researchers working within the field, to address questions such as: Why is self-forgiveness so difficult? What contexts and psychological experiences give rise to the need for self-forgiveness? What approaches can therapists use to help people process difficult experiences that elicit guilt, shame and self-condemnation? How can people work through their own failures and transgressions? Assembling current theories and findings, this unique resource reviews and advances our understanding of self-forgiveness, and its potentially critical function in interpersonal relationships and individual emotional and physical health. The editors begin by exploring the nature of self-forgiveness. They consider its processes, causes, and effects, how it may be measured, and its potential benefits to theory and psychotherapy. Expert clinicians and researchers then examine self-forgiveness in its many facets; as a response to guilt and shame, a step toward processing transgressions, a means of reducing anxiety, and an essential component of, or, under some circumstances a barrier to, psychotherapeutic intervention. Contributors also address self-forgiveness as applied to diverse psychosocial contexts such as addiction and recovery, couples and families, healthy aging, the workplace, and the military.
Among the topics in the Handbook: An evolutionary approach to shame-based self-criticism, self-forgiveness and compassion. Working through psychological needs following transgressions to arrive at self-forgiveness. Self-forgiveness and health: a stress-and-coping model. Self-forgiveness and personal and relational well-being. Self-directed intervention to promote self-forgiveness. Understanding the role of forgiving the self in the act of hurting oneself.
The Handbook of the Psychology of Self-Forgiveness serves many healing professionals. It covers a wide range of problems for which individuals often seek help from counselors, clergy, social workers, psychologists and physicians. Research psychologists, philosophers, and sociologists studying self-forgiveness will also find it an essential handbook that draws together the advances made over the past several decades, and identifies important directions for the road ahead.
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McConnell, John M. "Confirming a model of self-forgiveness." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2009. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/660.
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Wedemalm, Magdalena. "The choice of forgiveness : Forgiveness of self and others focusing on situation and personality." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Psykologiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-55946.
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Throughout the years research on forgiveness has expanded (Thompson et al., 2005). However it is only in recent years that forgiveness has been recognized as a concept with two components, forgiveness of self and others (Ross, Hertenstein & Wrobel, 2007). The aim of this study was to see how forgiveness of self and others differed, also taking into consideration variables such as situation and personality. One hundred participants completed a web-based questionnaire containing four forgiveness situations, the Heartland Forgiveness Scale and a personality test. The results from the forgiveness situations did not reveal any significant difference between forgiveness of self and others. However, the ratings of the Heartland Forgiveness Scale revealed that it was harder to forgive others. Also, it was found that participants differed in their forgiveness depending on what situation it was. In addition, individuals who scored low in the personality-type instability were less able to forgive others. It seems, therefore, that forgiveness of self and others do differ and also in the aspects of situation and personality.
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Campana, Kathryn. "SELF-FORGIVENESS INTERVENTIONS FOR WOMEN EXPERIENCING A BREAKUP." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2099.
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This study examined the effectiveness of an intervention designed to increase self forgiveness for women who have recently experienced a romantic relationship breakup. Of particular interest were the interactions between adult attachment style, treatment condition, and time. The current study examined how the following variables differ between attachment style groups and how they change over time with respect to treatment condition: aspects of the former relationship, emotional responses to personal transgressions within the relationship, general negative and positive affect, dispositional forgivingness, positive and negative attitudes toward self, feelings of unforgiveness toward self and ex-partner, and feelings of forgiveness of self and ex-partner. Data were collected over a period of four weeks from 74 undergraduate women who had experienced a breakup within the two months prior to beginning the study. Results found that there were some initial differences in dependent variables between attachment style categories, which were controlled for when examining interaction effects between attachment, treatment condition, and time. Results indicated that attachment did not affect participants’ responses to the self-forgiveness intervention. However, there were significant interactions between treatment condition and time. Results are discussed in terms of previous research. Limitations of the current study are discussed and suggestions for future research are presented.
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Griffin, Brandon J. "DEVELOPMENT OF A TWO-FACTOR SELF-FORGIVENESS SCALE." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4670.
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Notwithstanding progress made in description, prediction, and manipulation of self-forgiveness, the extant literature continues to be wrought with theoretical and empirical quandaries. In the current dissertation, I conceptualize self-forgiveness within the framework of Social Cognitive Theory and develop a two-factor scale to assess distinct decisional and emotional aspects of self-forgiveness among perpetrators of interpersonal transgressions. In Study One, I test the hypothesized two-factor structure in a new measure of state self-forgiveness and provide preliminary evidence supporting construct validity via associations of that measure with perceived responsibility, guilt, and shame. In Study Two, I replicate the factor structure and provide preliminary evidence of criterion-related validity by distinguishing self-forgiveness from self-punishment and self-exoneration using the two-factor structure. In Study Three, I explore profiles of association between the hypothesized decisional and emotional factors of self-forgiveness and pro-social as well as health-related correlates. In sum, findings generally supported the proposed two-factor structure of self-forgiveness, which provides a foundation for future investigations and applications of self-forgiveness.
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Dodd, Timothy W. "The quest for wholeness an interplay of tradition, culture and experience in the 21st century : self-acceptance, forgiveness and self-forgiveness /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.
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Martin, Alyce M. "Exploring forgiveness the relationship between feeling forgiven by God and self-forgiveness for an interpersonal offense /." online version, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=case1206582492.
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Martin, Alyce Mae. "Exploring Forgiveness: The Relationship Between Feeling Forgiven by God and Self-Forgiveness for an Interpersonal Offense." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1206582492.
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Bowman, Irene Gillian. "Exploring the retrospective experience of self-forgiveness in psychotherapy." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06172004-123504.
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Barber, Louise. "Exploring forgiveness of self and others using integrative methodologies." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2004. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20620/.
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The thesis combines qualitative and quantitative methodology to broaden the research into forgiveness. The first part of the thesis uses predominately qualitative methodology to gain information about the understanding of forgiveness and the forgiveness issues of ten mothers who are residing in a six-month drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre. The women provided written life histories and standardised measures to enable psychometric profiles to be generated. Semi-structured interviewing and interpretative phenomenological analysis (Smith, 1996) was then used to discover the forgiveness experiences and their meanings for the ten women who took part. Forgiveness issues relate to the forgiveness triad, and the themes to emerge are, intimate relationships, domination, pseudo-forgiveness, the value of forgiveness, process of forgiveness, remorse, instantaneous forgiveness, attitude towards the aggressor, unforgivable, family as forgivers/blood is thicker than water, desire for forgiveness from their children, forgiveness without truth is impossible, forgiveness doesn't always feel good, allowing oneself to be the victim, parenting issues, prostitution, and not to blame. Although there are striking similarities in the forgiveness issues of the women, the study also touches on how individuals can conceptualise forgiveness very differently. This study goes some way to showing that we are all individuals with our own meanings, ideas and realities. People make their own decisions about what forgiveness is and what it means to them. The second part of the thesis uses standardised psychometric tests with student and non-student samples n a series of studies. Some of the studies focussed on variables that seemed to be theoretically relevant from the qualitative studies, in the first part of the thesis, while others followed up theoretical issues suggested by the wider literature on forgiveness. As gender differences in forgiveness have not been studied in great detail in previous studies and the evidence is equivocal all the studies explore for sex differences. No significant sex difference is found with regard to forgiveness of self. However with forgiveness of others the results appear more complex. Females are found to be more forgiving of others than males in two of the studies, while no difference is found in the remaining studies. Failure to forgive self is found to be to be associated with higher anxiety and depression and less hope in males and females and higher somatic symptoms in males. In females failure to forgive others is accompanied by higher anxiety and lower scores on the hope scale, Further, forgiveness of self is found to be more strongly associated with measures of psychological well being than forgiveness of others. In relation to Sukhodolsky et al.'s (2001) 4-factor model of anger rumination many of the anger rumination sub-scales correlated with forgiveness of self and forgiveness of others therefore a series of multiple regressions were performed. Anger memories are found to be the most important aspects in forgiving oneself, and dealing with revenge thoughts are found to be crucial with forgiveness of others. Further, forgiveness of self is found to share a significant positive correlation with emotional intelligence, self-liking, self-competence and optimism among males and females. Also, forgiveness of others shares a significant positive correlation with emotional intelligence among males and females. With forgiveness of self, multiple regression suggests that self-liking and emotional intelligence account for the unique variance In scores among males and optimism and self-liking account for the unique variance in scores among females. With regards to parenting and forgiveness, males forgiveness of self is not significantly correlated with any of the parenting styles of either parent, but forgiveness of others has a significant negative correlation with permissive parents. In females there is no correlation with forgiveness of others and any of the parenting styles. But with regards to forgiveness of self there is a significant negative correlation with the father's authoritarian parenting style. There is a significant positive correlation between democratic father's parenting style and forgiveness of self.
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Toussaint, L., J. R. Webb, and Jameson K. Hirsch. "Self-Forgiveness and Health: A Stress-and-Coping Model." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/468.
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Book Summary: The present volume is a ground-breaking and agenda-setting investigation of the psychology of self-forgiveness. It brings together the work of expert clinicians and researchers working within the field, to address questions such as: Why is self-forgiveness so difficult? What contexts and psychological experiences give rise to the need for self-forgiveness? What approaches can therapists use to help people process difficult experiences that elicit guilt, shame and self-condemnation? How can people work through their own failures and transgressions? Assembling current theories and findings, this unique resource reviews and advances our understanding of self-forgiveness, and its potentially critical function in interpersonal relationships and individual emotional and physical health. The editors begin by exploring the nature of self-forgiveness. They consider its processes, causes, and effects, how it may be measured, and its potential benefits to theory and psychotherapy. Expert clinicians and researchers then examine self-forgiveness in its many facets; as a response to guilt and shame, a step toward processing transgressions, a means of reducing anxiety, and an essential component of, or, under some circumstances a barrier to, psychotherapeutic intervention. Contributors also address self-forgiveness as applied to diverse psychosocial contexts such as addiction and recovery, couples and families, healthy aging, the workplace, and the military.
Among the topics in the Handbook: An evolutionary approach to shame-based self-criticism, self-forgiveness and compassion. Working through psychological needs following transgressions to arrive at self-forgiveness. Self-forgiveness and health: a stress-and-coping model. Self-forgiveness and personal and relational well-being. Self-directed intervention to promote self-forgiveness. Understanding the role of forgiving the self in the act of hurting oneself.
The Handbook of the Psychology of Self-Forgiveness serves many healing professionals. It covers a wide range of problems for which individuals often seek help from counselors, clergy, social workers, psychologists and physicians. Research psychologists, philosophers, and sociologists studying self-forgiveness will also find it an essential handbook that draws together the advances made over the past several decades, and identifies important directions for the road ahead.
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Law, Mary Kate. "Assessing Forgiveness: Development of a Brief, Broadly Applicable Self-report Measure." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42653.
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Forgiveness is a construct that has captured the interest of researchers and practitioners across various fields, from philosophy to biology; however, defining and measuring forgiveness has been a challenge because of its complex nature. By drawing on relationships discovered in past studies, reviewing definitions across disciplines, and noting weaknesses in current forgiveness measures, the task of developing a broadly applicable forgiveness measure with strong theoretical and psychometric roots resulted in the creation of the General Measure of Forgiveness (GMF).
The GMF is a brief, Likert response questionnaire that is appropriate for both relationship and non-relationship transgressions; heretofore, there has not been an established measure for non-relationship trangressions. This study was an initial investigation into the psychometric properties of the GMF. In an online design, college participants (n=343) were administered the GMF along with an established interpersonal measure of forgiveness, the Enright Forgiveness Inventory (EFI: Enright & Rique, 2004), and other measures of theoretically related and unrelated constructs. For the forgiveness measures, participants completed the GMF and EFI (order counterbalanced) in response to the same self-generated relationship transgression, then completed the GMF in response to a self-generated non-relationship transgression.
Results supported the internal consistency of the GMF (Cronbachâ s alphas of .93 for both relationship and non-relationship forgiveness) and an exploratory factor analysis identified a primary factor accounting for about 30% of the total item variance. Convergent and discriminant validity analyses resulted in largely predicted relationships (e.g., r = .81 for GMFrelationship and EFI; r = .78 for GMFnon-relationship and a single-item assessment of forgiveness; r = -.26 for GMFrelationship and anger and aggression).
These results are encouraging as use of the GMF could open new areas of research in non-relationship forgiveness and enhance research and application of relationship forgiveness. Specifically, the GMF holds promise for improving research by providing a brief, non-proprietary, and broadly applicable measure of forgiveness. Broadly, the study suggests that a general measure of forgiveness is feasible.<br>Master of Science
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Whittington, Brandon L. "An examination of forgiveness attitudes, assertiveness and self-esteem in relationships between forgiveness, relational abuse, and well-being." Thesis, University of Missouri - Saint Louis, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3705203.
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<p> This study examined attitudes towards forgiveness, assertiveness, and self-esteem as moderators between the tendency to forgive and life satisfaction, physical health, and relational abuse. One hundred and seventy two women recruited online completed measures that assessed self-ratings of the above variables. The tendency to forgive was positively associated with life satisfaction although not associated with physical health or relational abuse. Conversely attitudes towards forgiveness were positively associated with physical health, although not associated with life satisfaction or physical abuse. Assertiveness was positively associated with life satisfaction, although not associated with physical health or relational abuse. Self-esteem was positively associated with life satisfaction and physical health and negatively associated with relational abuse. Interaction analyses indicated that attitudes towards forgiveness moderated the relationship between tendency to forgive and life satisfaction. Specifically, the tendency to forgive was positively associated with life satisfaction only among those with low forgiveness attitudes. Assertiveness and self-esteem failed to moderate relationships between the tendency to forgive and any of the dependent variables: life satisfaction, physical health, and relational abuse. Results suggest that the tendency to forgive may be particularly beneficial for those with low forgiveness attitudes, although the present study is the first to obtain such findings. Implications for counselors and suggestions for future research are discussed.</p>
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Skoda, Ashley Mae. "The Relation Between Self-Compassion, Depression, and Forgiveness of Others." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1314061381.
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Hua, William Q. "Back in My Hands: The Role of Self-Forgiveness and Stigma in HIV-Positive Adults." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149612/.
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While advancements in treatment have made HIV a more manageable disease, only recently have psychosocial variables associated with the health of persons living with HIV (PLH) began to receive increased scrutiny. HIV-related stigma, considered by some researchers to be a “second epidemic,” is one such psychosocial variable and is associated with negative physiological and psychological health outcomes. In an effort to alleviate the effects of stress, increased research attention has focused on forgiveness as a teachable coping strategy. Current forgiveness interventions demonstrate encouraging results in decreasing anger and neutralizing stress but have not been applied to HIV-positive populations. In this study, Lazarus and Folkman’s transactional model of stress and coping (1984) and Prochaska and Velicer’s transtheoretical model of health behavior (1997) were utilized as theoretical frameworks to inform a randomized clinical trial that examines coping skills, particularly forgiveness, in PLH and perceived HIV-related stigma. An ethnically diverse sample of HIV-positive adults (n = 57) was randomized into a treatment or control group. The treatment group participated in six weeks of cognitive-behavioral group therapy that focused on the teaching of forgiveness as an effective coping tool while the control group was psychoeducational in nature and did not involve mention of forgiveness. Data was obtained on a variety of medical and psychosocial variables, including types of forgiveness (dispositional forgiveness, forgiveness of self, forgiveness of others, and forgiveness of situations) and perceived HIV-related stigma. Data were collected at three time points: at baseline (Time 1) prior to randomization of participants to the treatment or control group, immediately post intervention (Time 2), and at six-month follow-up (Time 3). Importantly, forgiveness was shown to be a teachable skill that PLH can use to potentially improve mental health. Men in the treatment group reported significantly higher levels of dispositional forgiveness and self-forgiveness than men in the control group at six-month follow up. Additionally, self-forgiveness at Time 1 and self-forgiveness at Time 3 significantly accounted for 34% and 28% of the variance, respectively, in HIV-related stigma at Time 3. Though self-forgiveness was shown to be better than forgiveness of others in predicting HIV-related stigma, the forgiveness intervention was not effective in reducing overall HIV-related stigma in PLH. HIV-related stigma is likely more complex than originally conceptualized. Implications and future directions in improving interventions to mitigate HIV-related stigma are discussed.
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Moloney, Jaclyn M. "SELF-FORGIVENESS IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: THE IMPACT ON THE PERPETRATOR AND THE RELATIONSHIP." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4976.
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Two studies were conducted to determine how self-forgiveness and other perpetrator reactions influence the perpetrator and the victim after a romantic relationship transgression. Study 1 used a longitudinal design to determine how guilt and shame predicted the trajectory of self-forgiveness, self-excusing, and self-punishing in participants who had recently been the perpetrator of a romantic relationship transgression.
Those experiencing higher guilt at baseline had higher self-forgiveness starting out and those lower on guilt starting out had a greater change in self-forgiveness. Those experiencing more guilt at baseline experienced less change in self-forgiveness over time. Shame was not significantly related to self-forgiveness over time. Those experiencing higher shame at baseline were higher in self-excusing starting out. Those lower on shame starting out had a greater increase in self-excusing over time and those experiencing more shame at baseline experienced less increase in self-excusing over time. Guilt was not significantly related to self-excusing over time. Neither guilt nor shame predicted change in self-punishment over time.
In Study 2, couples came into the lab and wrote about the same offense. One participant wrote from the perspective of the perpetrator and the other from the perspective of the victim. Victims reported their forgiveness and perception of their partners’ reactions to wrongdoing. Perpetrators reported their perception of their partners’ feelings of forgiveness and their feelings of self-forgiveness, self-excusing, and self-punishing. Both members reported their relationship satisfaction and commitment.
Overall, self-forgiveness by the perpetrator was not a strong predictor of perpetrator satisfaction or commitment. Victims were more satisfied and committed when perceiving self-forgiveness from their partner, even though their partners’ self-forgiveness did not have an effect. Self-forgiveness only positively predicted perpetrators’ satisfaction and commitment when participants reported decisional self-forgiveness.
Victims’ perceptions of the perpetrators’ self-excusing and perpetrators’ self-punishing negatively predicted victim commitment and satisfaction. Victims’ perceived perpetrator self-punishing positively predicted perpetrators’ commitment. Perpetrator perceived victim forgiveness and victim forgiveness both positively predicted satisfaction for the perpetrator and the victim. This suggests that perpetrators’ perceptions of victim forgiveness may be more important for the perpetrator than the victim actually forgiving them.
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Womack, Stephanie Dianne. "The Effects of Self-Forgiveness, Self-Acceptance, and Self-Compassion on Subclinical Disordered Eating: The Role of Shame." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862828/.
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Disordered eating is a general term that describes a wide range of behaviors from diagnosable eating disorders to subclinical patterns of behavior that do not meet criteria for diagnosis (e.g., problematic weight loss behaviors, excessive dieting, bingeing, purging). Disordered eating is prevalent and has a wide range of physical and psychological consequences. Negative self-conscious emotions such as shame and guilt have been implicated in the development and maintenance of disordered eating. Positive attitudes toward the self (i.e., self-forgiveness, self-compassion, self-acceptance) may be helpful in reducing shame, guilt, and disordered eating symptoms. In this dissertation, I explored the associations between positive attitudes toward the self, negative self-conscious emotions, and disordered eating in a sample of college students and adults (N = 477). Positive attitudes toward the self were associated with lower levels of disordered eating symptoms, and this relationship was partially mediated by lower levels of negative self-conscious emotions. I concluded by discussing areas for future research and implications for clinical practice.
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Karseboom, Shirley. "Relationship Between Meaning in Life and Dispositional Forgiveness." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2362.
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Both meaning in life and forgiveness have been shown to separately contribute to better mental health. However, no prior research examined the linkage between meaning in life and forgiveness. This quantitative study was therefore to identify if there was a relationship between meaning in life, as measured by the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ), and overall dispositional forgiveness, dispositional forgiveness of self, dispositional forgiveness of others, and dispositional forgiveness of situations, as measured by the Heartland Forgiveness Scale (HFS). Survey data were gathered from 250 college students in Western Canada, and multiple linear regression controlling for sociodemographic factors was used. The results showed a relationship between meaning in life and 3 out of the 4 variables. A significant relationship was found between meaning in life and dispositional forgiveness, dispositional forgiveness of situations, and overall dispositional forgiveness. There was no relationship found between meaning in life and dispositional forgiveness of others. These findings may be explained by extant literature suggesting differences in both cognitions and emotions between self forgiveness, other forgiveness, and overall forgiveness. Mental health professionals applying therapeutic intervention options that incorporate these 2 constructs may help to precipitate social change in terms of the treatment and management of mental health, especially with respect to the potential to improve treatment options for depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and anger. Improved treatment interventions and options for individuals can potentially lead to increased employability, reduction in crime, better school attendance and performance, and overall improved physical health across the lifespan.
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DiPietro, Ellette K. "Unforgiving Pain: A Qualitative Exploration of Chronic Pain and Self-Forgiveness." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1503616087896433.
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Smith, Heather Michele. "Commitment, Forgiveness, and Relationship Self-Regulation: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4191.
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Relationship self-regulation (RSR) refers to the “work”, or effort and strategies, that partners exert over time to maintain the health of their romantic relationships. Most research focuses on self-reports of RSR, however, several studies suggest that partner perceptions are more influential in relationship appraisal. In addition, most RSR research has focused not on partners' attitudes and virtues like commitment, but instead on personality traits, emotional health, and communication skills. In this study, we examine the relationship between partners' levels of commitment and forgiveness within their relationships, and how they perceive their partner's use of RSR behaviors. Using paired data from 679 cohabiting and married couples who took the RELATE questionnaire, we found that males' and females' self-reports of commitment and forgiveness were both positively associated with higher perceptions of partner RSR. Likewise, we found that, for females, higher self-reports of commitment and forgiveness were positively correlated with higher male perceptions of her RSR, and male forgiveness was positively correlated with female perceptions of his RSR. The variables of commitment and forgiveness explained an average of 44% of the variance in perceptions of partner RSR for both genders. Implications for future research and clinicians are discussed.
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Toussaint, L., J. R. Webb, and Jameson K. Hirsch. "Self-Forgiveness, Self-Harm and Suicidal Behavior: Understanding the Role of Forgiving the Self in the Act of Hurting One’s Self." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/471.
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Book Summary: The present volume is a ground-breaking and agenda-setting investigation of the psychology of self-forgiveness. It brings together the work of expert clinicians and researchers working within the field, to address questions such as: Why is self-forgiveness so difficult? What contexts and psychological experiences give rise to the need for self-forgiveness? What approaches can therapists use to help people process difficult experiences that elicit guilt, shame and self-condemnation? How can people work through their own failures and transgressions? Assembling current theories and findings, this unique resource reviews and advances our understanding of self-forgiveness, and its potentially critical function in interpersonal relationships and individual emotional and physical health. The editors begin by exploring the nature of self-forgiveness. They consider its processes, causes, and effects, how it may be measured, and its potential benefits to theory and psychotherapy. Expert clinicians and researchers then examine self-forgiveness in its many facets; as a response to guilt and shame, a step toward processing transgressions, a means of reducing anxiety, and an essential component of, or, under some circumstances a barrier to, psychotherapeutic intervention. Contributors also address self-forgiveness as applied to diverse psychosocial contexts such as addiction and recovery, couples and families, healthy aging, the workplace, and the military.
Among the topics in the Handbook: An evolutionary approach to shame-based self-criticism, self-forgiveness and compassion. Working through psychological needs following transgressions to arrive at self-forgiveness. Self-forgiveness and health: a stress-and-coping model. Self-forgiveness and personal and relational well-being. Self-directed intervention to promote self-forgiveness. Understanding the role of forgiving the self in the act of hurting oneself.
The Handbook of the Psychology of Self-Forgiveness serves many healing professionals. It covers a wide range of problems for which individuals often seek help from counselors, clergy, social workers, psychologists and physicians. Research psychologists, philosophers, and sociologists studying self-forgiveness will also find it an essential handbook that draws together the advances made over the past several decades, and identifies important directions for the road ahead.
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Hall, Benjamin B. "Spirituality and Suicidal Behavior: The Mediating Role of Self-Forgiveness and Psychache." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3222.
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Growing evidence for protective factors of spirituality against physical and mental health related outcomes has led to the consideration of spirituality as a protective factor for suicidal behaviors. Although initial support for this association is promising, spirituality has yet to be explored as it relates to psychache. Additionally, self-forgiveness has emerged as an important protective factor of suicidal behavior, but has not been explored in the context of psychache. Following a model developed by Webb, Hirsch, and Toussaint (2015), the current project explores the protective role of spirituality on suicidal behavior based on three dimensions of spirituality: ritualistic, theistic, and existential. A total of 262 individuals completed a self-report survey online through Amazon Mechanical Turk. Results indicate that only Existential Spirituality is related to suicidal behaviors. Further, self-forgiveness and psychache were found to be serial mediators of this relationship. Implications for clinical interventions and directions for future research are discussed.
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Hall, Benjamin B., Jon R. Webb, and Jameson K. Hirsch. "Spirituality and Suicidal Behavior: The Mediating Role of Self-forgiveness and Psychache." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5550.
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Growing evidence for the salubrious association of spirituality with physical and mental health related outcomes has led to the consideration of spirituality as a protective factor against suicidal behavior. Although support for this basic association is robust, particularly in the context of religious belief and attendance, spirituality has yet to be explored as it relates to psychache—intense, unrelenting psychological pain. Additionally, self-forgiveness has emerged as an important protective factor against suicidal behavior, but has not been explored in the context of psychache. Following a model developed by Webb, Hirsch, and Toussaint (2015), we examine the protective role of spirituality on suicidal behavior, based on three dimensions of spirituality: ritualistic, theistic, and existential. Cross-sectional data were collected from the self-report surveys of 262 individuals drawn from the larger U.S. community. Results suggest that existential spirituality may be the dimension of spirituality most robustly associated with suicidal behavior. Further, self-forgiveness and psychache were found to be mediators of the relationship between existential spirituality and suicidal behavior. Synthesis of the findings from this study, and the implications thereof, are discussed.
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Hansen, Ryan W. "The Role Self-Forgiveness and Hope in Relation to the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374158098.
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Bugay, Asli. "Investigation Of Social-cognitive, Emotional And Behavioral Variables As Predictors Of Self-forgiveness." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612679/index.pdf.
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The aim of the current study is to investigate the role of social-cognitive (locus of control, rumination and socially-prescribed perfectionism), emotional (shame and guilt), and behavioral (conciliatory behaviors) reactions toward oneself in predicting self-forgiveness based on Hall and Fincham&rsquo<br>s (2005) theoretical model. The sample of this study was composed of 815 (445 female, 370 male) university students attending five different faculty programs at Middle East Technical University (METU). Heartland Forgiveness Scale, Trait Shame and Guilt Scale, Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism Scale, Ruminative Response Scale, The Internal-External Locus of Control Scale and Demographic Information Form were used in data collection.
In the current study, structural equation modeling (SEM) was used primarily to test the hypothesized model, integrating the effects of the social-cognitive (locus of control, rumination and socially-prescribed perfectionism), emotional (shame and guilt), and behavioral (conciliatory behaviors) variables as determinants of self-forgiveness.
The SEM results indicated that this model provided a good fit to the data in spite of three non-significant paths, including the direct paths from (a) socially-prescribed perfectionism to shame and guilt and (b) locus of control to self-forgiveness. Since some paths appeared to be non-significant, the hypothesized model was trimmed. The result of the trimmed model was surpassed many of the criteria for good fit. Overall, the total variance explained by the finalized model in self-forgiveness was .32.
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Martyn, Sherry Marie. "Facilitating self-forgiveness in psychotherapy| Clinical perceptions on the efficacy of treatment interventions." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10092297.
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<p> Literature extolling the psychological benefits of self-forgiveness is robust, yet there are no evidence-based models for facilitating self-forgiveness in individual psychotherapy. Further, there is no consensus in the literature on the definition of self-forgiveness. This quantitative, survey-based study examined licensed clinicians’ (<i>N</i>=57) perceptions of the efficacy of self-forgiveness treatment interventions, their preferred definitions of self-forgiveness, and how frequently treatment methodologies were utilized. Correlational analyses examined the relationship between clinicians’ definitions, perceptions of efficacy, and frequencies of use of self-forgiveness methods and the clinicians’ demographic factors (theoretical orientation, type of licensure, age, years of clinical experience, and type of training). Hong and Jacinto’s (2012) definition was the most frequently chosen (36.8%), followed by Hulnick and Hulnick’s (2011) definition (35.1%). Most clinicians (57.9%) were not familiar with any of the various treatment methods. Among clinicians familiar enough to rate the methods, Hulnick and Hulnick’s (2011) method received the highest efficacy rating (<i>M</i> = 4.11, <i>SD</i> = 1.17), followed by Enright et al. (1996) method (<i>M</i> = 3.67, SD = 0.71). The most frequently used were Jacinto and Edwards’ (2011) method (<i> M</i> = 2.09, <i>SD</i> = 1.35) and Hulnick and Hulnick’s (2011) method (<i>M</i> = 2.04, <i>SD</i> = 1.58). Correlations were significant for theoretical orientation and source of training; theoretical orientation provided the largest explanation for variance. Implications for future research, clinical training, and development of evidence-based treatment modalities are discussed. Linkage between self-forgiveness and remediating shame, recidivism, spiritual psychology, and Jungian psychology are reviewed. Keywords: self-forgiveness, psychotherapy, counseling psychology, spiritual psychology, quantitative study</p>
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Griffin, Brandon J. "Efficacy of a Self-forgiveness Workbook: A Randomized Controlled Trial with University Students." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3318.
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Insofar as forgiveness of oneself enables one to responsibly manage the consequences of wrongdoing, the practice of self-forgiveness may be essential to the preservation of one’s physical, psychological, relational, and spiritual health. In the present thesis, an intervention wait-list design was employed to investigate the efficacy of a 6-hour self-directed workbook designed to promote self-forgiveness. University students (N = 204) who reported perpetrating an interpersonal offense and who experienced some sense of remorse were randomly assigned to either an immediate treatment or wait-list control condition, and assessments were administered on three occasions. Participants’ self-forgiveness ratings increased in conjunction with completion of the workbook, and the effect of treatment depended upon self-administered dose and baseline levels of dispositional self-compassion in some cases. In summary, the workbook appeared to facilitate the process of responsible self-forgiveness among perpetrators of interpersonal wrongdoing, though replication trials are needed in which lower rates of attrition reduce the possibility of biased results.
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Semenec, Silvie Cleo. "The relationship of self and other-forgiveness to interpersonal stress reactivity and recovery." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available, full text:, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Toussaint, L., J. R. Webb, and Jameson K. Hirsch. "Self-Forgiveness and Pursuit of the Sacred: The Role of Pastoral-Related Care." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/469.
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Book Summary: The present volume is a ground-breaking and agenda-setting investigation of the psychology of self-forgiveness. It brings together the work of expert clinicians and researchers working within the field, to address questions such as: Why is self-forgiveness so difficult? What contexts and psychological experiences give rise to the need for self-forgiveness? What approaches can therapists use to help people process difficult experiences that elicit guilt, shame and self-condemnation? How can people work through their own failures and transgressions? Assembling current theories and findings, this unique resource reviews and advances our understanding of self-forgiveness, and its potentially critical function in interpersonal relationships and individual emotional and physical health. The editors begin by exploring the nature of self-forgiveness. They consider its processes, causes, and effects, how it may be measured, and its potential benefits to theory and psychotherapy. Expert clinicians and researchers then examine self-forgiveness in its many facets; as a response to guilt and shame, a step toward processing transgressions, a means of reducing anxiety, and an essential component of, or, under some circumstances a barrier to, psychotherapeutic intervention. Contributors also address self-forgiveness as applied to diverse psychosocial contexts such as addiction and recovery, couples and families, healthy aging, the workplace, and the military.
Among the topics in the Handbook: An evolutionary approach to shame-based self-criticism, self-forgiveness and compassion. Working through psychological needs following transgressions to arrive at self-forgiveness. Self-forgiveness and health: a stress-and-coping model. Self-forgiveness and personal and relational well-being. Self-directed intervention to promote self-forgiveness. Understanding the role of forgiving the self in the act of hurting oneself.
The Handbook of the Psychology of Self-Forgiveness serves many healing professionals. It covers a wide range of problems for which individuals often seek help from counselors, clergy, social workers, psychologists and physicians. Research psychologists, philosophers, and sociologists studying self-forgiveness will also find it an essential handbook that draws together the advances made over the past several decades, and identifies important directions for the road ahead.
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Swanepoel, Cindy Rachel. "A correlation study of self-compassion, self-forgiveness and eating disorder behaviour among university females / Cindy Rachel Swanepoel." Thesis, North-West University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8310.
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Recently protective factors associated with eating disorders have acquired more focus within the
field of psychology. Self-compassion and self-forgiveness have previously been related to a variety
of beneficial psychological outcomes. It has been suggested that these may serve as protective
factors against the development of eating disorders. The purpose of this study was to determine
whether significant correlations exist between the following constructs in university female
students: on the one hand, self-forgiveness and self-compassion, with its associated components,
namely mindfulness, self-kindness, common humanity, and on the other hand eating disorder
predictors, namely body dissatisfaction, a drive for thinness and low self-esteem. Body
dissatisfaction, a drive for thinness and low self-esteem have been identified as the most predictive
factors associated with the onset of eating disorders.
For this study, a convenience sample of 122 female students at the Potchefstroom Campus of the
North-West University, ranging between the ages of 18 and 25 (M age = 20.42 years, SD = 1.62)
completed the following questionnaires: a biographical questionnaire; The Self-Compassion Scale;
The Eating Disorder Inventory 3, and The Heartland Forgiveness Scale. Body Mass Indices (BMIs)
were also calculated, but only as indicative of range, and not as determining variables. In this study
participants fell predominantly within the normal BMI range (M = 23.11, SD = 3.24). Statistical
analysis calculated Pears on correlation coefficients between the variables, indicating the nature and
strength of the relationships between variables. The reliability of the measurements where
determined by Cronbach alphas, and in this study the reliability was found to be good.
This study found that self-compassion and self-forgiveness significantly correlated negatively of a large effect with eating disorder predictors. Self-compassion especially had significant negative
correlates with body dissatisfaction, indicating that individuals with higher self-compassion
experienced lower body dissatisfaction. Self-forgiveness showed highly significant negative
correlations with low self-esteem, indicating that individuals engaging in self-forgiveness had
higher self-esteems. Both self-compassion and self-forgiveness showed negative correlations of
medium significance with the drive for thinness, indicating that individuals engaging in selfcompassionate
and self-forgiving behaviours had somewhat less of a drive for thinness than
individuals not engaging in such behaviours.
The results therefore showed that self-compassion, with its associated constructs (mindfulness, selfkindness
and common humanity), as well as self-forgiveness, had an inverse effect on the abovementioned eating disorder predictors, namely body dissatisfaction, a drive for thinness and low selfesteem.
This could allow for future regression studies to identify the above-mentioned as protective
factors, which could then inform future prevention programmes, especially within the South
African population.<br>Thesis (M.A. (Clinical Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010
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Schantz, Ashley A. "Betrayal Characteristics and Self-Forgiveness: The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Social-Cognitive Variables." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1366658574.
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Fisher, Mickie Lynn. "Evaluation of a Self-Forgiveness Intervention: Does it Promote Emotion Resolution and Prosocial Behavior?" Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1205076695.
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Fisher, Mickie L. "Evaluation of a self-forgiveness intervention does it promote emotion resolution and prosocial behavior /." online version, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=case1205076695.
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Raja-aho, Maarit, and Ellinor Bernhardsson. "Att förlåta eller inte, det är frågan : Om förlåtelsens och icke-förlåtelsens funktioner." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-38414.
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Förlåtelse anses ibland som den enda lösningen för sårade eller kränkta känslor och icke-förlåtelse anses betyda att man fortsätter med grubblerier och hämndbegär. Syftet med studien var att studera förlåtelsens och icke-förlåtelsens funktioner, upplevelser och samband med empati. Trettio respondenter från Sverige, Finland och Frankrike svarade skriftligt eller muntligt på intervjufrågor om förlåtelse och eller icke-förlåtelse. Intervjuerna meningskoncentrerades och analyserades med tematisk analys och resultatet visade att både förlåtelse och icke-förlåtelse kan ha positiva men olika funktioner för individer. Situationen och vem som skulle förlåtas är avgörande faktorer för när det är förlåtelse eller icke- förlåtelse som är det optimala för t ex. självkänslan. Förlåtelse och icke-förlåtelse visade sig vara motsatser till varandra endast i två bemärkelser, när det gäller empatiska känslor och fortsatt kontakt. Studien kan komma till nytta inom arbeten där man bemöter individer som har upplevt svåra kränkningar.
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Williams, Elizabeth Conway. "Self-Compassion and Self-Forgiveness as Mediated by Rumination, Shame-Proneness, and Experiential Avoidance: Implications for Mental and Physical Health." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2562.
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Self-compassion and self-forgiveness appear to have much in common, as both relate to one’s self-regard during challenging circumstances; however, their empirical relationship is largely yet to be explored. The present study examines theoretical and empirical areas of overlap and proposes a theory of their relationship, including its possible impact on health. Self-compassion and self-forgiveness were proposed to have a direct relationship that may be mediated by reduction in rumination, shame, and experiential avoidance. These factors together were also hypothesized to have a positive impact on health functioning. The current study tested these models in a sample of undergraduate students (n = 199). In parallel mediation analysis, selfcompassion and self-forgiveness were related to one another and this association was partially mediated by shame, only. As such, neither rumination nor experiential avoidance were included in subsequent analyses. In serial mediation analyses, self-compassion, shame, and selfforgiveness were found to affect health outcomes in various ways. For psychological distress, the association of self-compassion was partially mediated by shame and self-forgiveness, in an indistinguishable fashion. For mental health status, self-compassion was found to have a significant direct effect, only. For both somatic symptoms (full mediation) and physical health status (indirect only effect), the association of self-compassion operated through self-forgiveness both alone and linked with shame. As these two emerging areas in the psychological literature continue to mature, researchers should prioritize both integration between and nuances within these constructs in order to develop a more complete understanding of self-compassion, selfforgiveness, and their implications for health.
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Heacock, Christy Jo. "The Experience of Forgiveness in Adults with Different Sacred Belief Systems." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4373.
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Forgiveness is the act of moving beyond shame, guilt, anger, or blame, and it has been linked to psychological well-being, prosocial behavior, and religion/spirituality (R/S). However, the research on why and how people forgive is inconsistent, as the concepts involved are complex and difficult to define and operationalize. The purpose of this interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was to provide a better understanding of why and how people are cognitively and emotionally able to forgive and the role of R/S in that process. Goal orientation and cognitive restructuring theories were used as frameworks for understanding the forgiveness experience. First-person, semistructured interviews were conducted with 12 persons from 10 different sacred belief systems who had experienced forgiveness of a major transgression. Data were analyzed using the IPA process, and five themes emerged: what is forgiveness?; why forgive?; how to forgive; the relationship between self-forgiveness and forgiveness of others; and developing a forgiveness disposition. All participants described forgiveness as an effortful, transformative process. Their motivation to forgive was based on a learning goal orientation and benefits to personal well-being and relationships. Participants forgave through making supportive R/S and/or social connections, finding the courage to confront transgressions, and resolving issues with compassion and creativity. A model of forgiveness was proposed that researchers can apply to future research efforts, and that mental health providers, clergy, and other helping professionals can use with clients in therapeutic applications of healing from major transgressions.
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Matsuyuki, Masami. "AN EXAMINATION OF THE PROCESS OF FORGIVENESS AND THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG STATE FORGIVENESS, SELF-COMPASSION, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING EXPERIENCED BY BUDDHISTS IN THE UNITED STATES." UKnowledge, 2011. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/edp_etds/1.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the process of forgiveness and the relationship among state forgiveness, self-compassion, and psychological well-being experienced by Buddhists in the United States. An integral feminist framework was developed for this mixed-method study.
For the quantitative component of this study, a convenience sample of 112 adults completed an online survey. Multiple regression analysis was performed to examine: (a) the impact of gender, age, and the years spent in Buddhist practice on state forgiveness and self-compassion; (b) the outcome of psychological well-being in relation to state forgiveness and self-compassion; and (c) self-compassion as a mediator for the relationship between state forgiveness and psychological well-being. Quantitative results indicated: (a) state forgiveness positively predicted psychological well-being; (b) the years spent in Buddhist practice positively predicted self-compassion; (c) self-compassion positively predicted psychological well-being; and (d) self-compassion partially mediated the relationship between state forgiveness and psychological well-being. Age did not predict any of the three primary variables. Gender did not predict state forgiveness.
For the qualitative component of this study, this researcher purposefully selected four adults from a local Buddhist community in central Kentucky and conducted two in-depth interviews to explore their subjective experiences of forgiveness within their own contexts. A holistic-content narrative analysis revealed unique features of each interviewee’s forgiveness process interwoven with the socio-cultural, family and relational contexts. From a phenomenological analysis, common themes and elements of the interviewees’ forgiveness processes emerged. Qualitative findings corresponded to the quantitative results concerning state forgiveness as a route to psychological well-being, the positive relationship between Buddhist practice and compassion, and the role of self-compassion in the relationship between state forgiveness and psychological well-being. Qualitative findings also suggested the following. First, two-way compassion toward self and the offender was a facilitating factor for forgiveness that may be unique to Buddhists. Second, one’s actual experience of forgiveness may encompass not only cognitive, affective, and behavioral changes, but also transformation of self and perspective on meaning and purpose in life. Third, Enright and his colleagues’ (1998) stage and process models of forgiveness were useful to understand Buddhists’ experiences and processes of forgiveness.
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Alencar, Thalita Lays Fernandes de. "Intervenção para o perdão em apenados." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2017. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/9124.
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Previous issue date: 2017-03-03<br>Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq<br>This study is based on Enright‟s interpersonal forgiveness theory, who conceive forgiveness as a moral attitude and propose its study in three dimensions: forgiving another - dimension of the victims, and receiving forgiveness and self-forgiveness - dimensions of offenders. For each dimension are proposed clinical processes that have a similar structure composed of four phases: uncovering, decision, work and outcome. This dissertation is an intervention work with the aim of promoting attitudes to receiving forgiveness and self-forgiveness in a group of inmates. The intervention was based on the phases and units of the clinical processes and was performed in 16 sessions each lasting approximately 90 minutes. A quasi-experimental design was used with two groups submitted to pretest and posttest: an experimental group that received the intervention treatment and a control group that received no treatment. Participants were 10 male inmates in semi-open regime, with five participants in the experimental group, ages ranged from 28 to 47 years, and five participants in the control group, ages ranged from 22 to 37 years. Measures of Receiving Forgiveness, Self-forgiveness, Social Desirability, Vulnerability, Anxiety, Depression and Self-Esteem were used. The results showed that the experimental group showed significant differences from pretest to posttest in the following variables: attitude to receiving forgiveness, social desirability, vulnerability and anxiety. The Jacobson and Truax method was used to individually analyze participants in the experimental group, evaluating the changes that can be reliably attributed to the intervention and the clinical significance of this change, that indicates if they are strong enough to be considered relevant. Were found reliably improvement of four participants in atitude to receive forgiveness, of two participants in atitude to self-forgiveness, of three participants in self-esteem, of two participants in vulnerability, and of one participant in depression. All changes in the attitude of receiving forgiveness, atitude to self-forgiveness, and self-esteem were clinically significant. The best results with the dimension receiving forgiveness were expected, since literature points out that the self-forgiveness process is the most difficult among the three dimensions of forgiveness. The results indicated that this study partially achieve the objective of contributing to significant advances in the promotion of forgiveness and to the improvement of the well-being of the intervention participants. It is considered that the skills and strategies worked may help participants in their interpersonal relationships and conflict resolution.<br>Este estudo fundamenta-se na teoria do perdão interpessoal de Enright, que concebe o perdão como uma atitude moral e propõem o seu estudo em três dimensões: oferecer o perdão – dimensão referente às vítimas, e receber o perdão e autoperdão – dimensões referentes aos ofensores. Para cada dimensão são propostos processos clínicos que possuem uma estrutura semelhante composta por quatro fases: reconhecimento, decisão, resolução e aprofundamento. Esta dissertação consiste em um trabalho de intervenção com o objetivo de promover atitudes para receber o perdão e autoperdoar-se em um grupo de apenados. A intervenção foi baseada nas fases e unidades dos processos clínicos e foi realizada em 16 sessões com duração de aproximadamente 90 minutos cada. Foi utilizado um delineamento quase-experimental com dois grupos submetidos a pré-teste e pós-teste: um grupo experimental que recebeu o tratamento da intervenção e o grupo controle que não recebeu nenhum tratamento. Participaram do estudo 10 apenados do sexo masculino em regime semiaberto, sendo cinco participantes do grupo experimental, com idades entre 28 e 47 anos, e cinco participantes do grupo controle, com idades entre 22 e 37 anos. Foram utilizadas medidas de Receber o Perdão, Autoperdoar-se, Desejabilidade Social, Vulnerabilidade, Ansiedade, Depressão e Autoestima. Os resultados mostraram que o grupo experimental apresentou diferenças significativas entre o pré-teste e o pós-teste nas seguintes variáveis: atitude para receber o perdão, desejabilidade social, vulnerabilidade e ansiedade. O método de Jacobson e Truax foi utilizado para analisar individualmente os participantes do grupo experimental sobre as mudanças que poderiam ser confiavelmente atribuídas à intervenção e sobre a significância clínica dessas mudanças, que indica se elas foram robustas o suficiente para serem consideradas relevantes. Verificou-se que quatro participantes apresentaram melhoras confiáveis na atitude para receber o perdão, dois participantes na atitude para autoperdoar-se, três participantes na autoestima, dois participantes na vulnerabilidade e um participante na depressão. Foram clinicamente significativas todas as mudanças na atitude para receber o perdão, na atitude para autoperdoar-se e na autoestima. Os melhores resultados com a dimensão receber o perdão estão de acordo com o esperado, uma vez que a literatura aponta que o processo de autoperdão é o mais difícil entre as três dimensões do perdão. Os resultados obtidos indicam que este estudo atingiu parcialmente o objetivo de contribuir para avanços significativos na promoção do perdão e para a melhoria do bem estar dos participantes da intervenção. Considera-se que as habilidades e estratégias trabalhadas poderão auxiliar participantes em suas relações interpessoais e na resolução de conflitos.
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Pugh, Kelley C., Jon R. Webb, Loren L. Toussaint, and Jameson Hirsch. "SELF-FORGIVENESS AND SUICIDE RISK IN VETERANS: EXAMINING SERIAL LINKAGES OF SHAME AND INTERPERSONAL NEEDS." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2018/schedule/34.
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Veterans in America are at 22% increased risk for suicide compared to the general population, perhaps due to military experiences (e.g., killing another person) that contribute to maladaptive cognitive-emotional functioning, including feelings of self-blame. A lack of self-forgiveness may maintain feelings of shame, conceptualized as humiliation or distress following perception of having behaved wrongly, which may, further, deleteriously impact interpersonal functioning, increasing suicide risk. Shame may lead an individual to withdraw from others, resulting in thwarted belongingness (i.e., a perception of a lack of membership with a group), and may contribute to feeling like a burden (i.e., a perception of being taxing or restrictive to others), both of which are known predictors of suicide. The ability to forgive the self, however, may reduce feelings of shame and, in turn, improve interpersonal functioning and suicide risk; yet, this model has not been previously tested. At the bivariate level, we hypothesized that shame, perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and suicide risk would all be positively related, and that they would all be inversely related to self-forgiveness. At the multivariate level, we tested two serial mediation models, hypothesizing that the relation between self-forgiveness and suicide risk would be mediated by shame (1st order) and perceived burdensomeness/thwarted belongingness (2nd order), such that lower levels of self-forgiveness would be associated with greater perceptions of shame and, in turn, to greater perceptions of burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness, and consequent greater suicide risk. Participants (N=551; Mean Age=50.4, SD=16.6) were recruited via online invitations distributed to veteran social media groups and were predominantly male (n=382, 69.3%) and White (n=469, 85.1%). Participants completed Fetzer’s Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness and Spirituality (BMMRS), the Differential Emotions Scale (DES-IV), the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (INQ), and the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire – Revised (SBQR). Bivariate correlations and multivariate analyses were conducted via the SPSS PROCESS macro (Hayes, 2013), covarying age, race, and sex, and utilizing a 10,000 bootstrapping sample. All bivariate hypotheses were supported at the pβ=.102, p=.437) when shame and perceived burdensomeness were added to the model (β=.642, pβ=.048, p=.733) when shame and thwarted belongingness were added to the model (β=.630, p
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Cardi, Michelle K. "TO FORGIVE IS DIVINE, BUT IS IT ALWAYS HELPFUL? EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF BRIEF FORGIVENESS INSTRUCTIONS IN HELPING FEMALE VICTIMS." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2005. http://lib.uky.edu/ETD/ukypcps2005t00332/MKCET.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Kentucky, 2005.<br>Title from document title page (viewed on November 2, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 43 p. : ill. Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-41).
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Matendechere, Elizabeth Nanjala. "A Correlational Study on Self-Forgiveness and the Risk of Relapse in Adults Recovering from Alcohol Addiction." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10844068.
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<p> Self-forgiveness is an emotion focused coping mechanism that increases positive emotions and behaviors. Self-forgiveness has been found to be moderated by guilt and shame in support of Hall and Finchman’s theory on the emotional components of self-forgiveness. Men and women recovering from alcohol addiction have been found to struggle with shame and guilt, however, little is understood about this association. This quantitative correlational non-experimental research study investigated the relationship between self-forgiveness and risk of relapse in adults who were recovering from alcohol abuse, how shame and guilt moderated this relationship and how this relationship differed by gender. Anonymous surveys were conducted in two treatment centres and two Alcoholic Anonymous recovery meetings in the city of Calgary. Participants completed a demographic questionnaire, The Heartland Forgiveness Scale, Alcohol Risk of Relapse Scale, and the Guilt and Shame Proneness Scale. Multiple regression and moderation analyses were conducted to test the study hypotheses. Self-forgiveness was found to have a non-significant relationship with risk of relapse (β = .040, <i>p</i> < .720) and the scores did not differ by gender [Male (β = –.061, <i>p</i> < .641), and Female (β = –.0.17, <i>p</i> < .937)]. Shame (<i>F</i> (3, 79) = .614, <i>p</i> = .608), and guilt (<i>F</i> (3, 79) = 7.244, <i>p</i> = .000) did not have a moderating effect on the relationship between self-forgiveness and the risk of relapse. When shame and guilt interacted with self-forgiveness in predicting risk of relapse, the results did not differ by gender [Male (<i>F</i> (4, 55) = 5.770, <i> p</i> = .001), and female (<i>F</i> (4, 18) = .580, <i> p</i> = .681)]. However, a result not hypothesized in the study was found among male participants that guilt was predictive of risk of relapse (<i> F</i> (3, 56) = 7.595, <i>p</i> = .000). This study highlights the impact of maladaptive guilt that maintains the cycle of addiction. Clinicians can utilize this knowledge to employ strategies of eliminating maladaptive guilt in psychotherapy. Further research is needed to determine if these results could be replicated with other demographic groups to identify other plausible mechanisms between self-forgiveness at risk of relapse.</p><p>
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PELUCCHI, SARA. "TI OFFENDO. MI PERDONO. STIAMO MEGLIO: PERDONO DI SE' E DETERMINANTI RELAZIONALI NELLE OFFESE INTERPERSONALI." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/810.
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Il presente lavoro considera il perdono di sé come una strategia di coping che permette al soggetto di diminuire i sentimenti negativi (ad es. colpa) legati all’offesa commessa ed aumentare quelli positivi verso il sé (es. compassione di sé), laddove prerequisito del processo è l’assunzione di responsabilità per quanto commesso. In specifico si ritiene e si è mostrato come il perdono di sé sia un costrutto frutto dell’interdipendenza dei comportamenti tra vittima e offensore.
Attraverso un set di studi sperimentali il presente studio ha, infatti, mostrato come i comportamenti conciliatori dell’offensore e il perdono concesso dalla vittima predicano un maggiore perdono di sé dell’offensore. Successivamente il costrutto è stato indagato all’interno di una closerelationship, dove i partner si sono confrontati su offese realmente commesse. I modelli di equazione strutturale hanno confermato come il perdono di sé dell’offensore è legato sia al perdono concesso dalla vittima che alle condotte riparatrici attuate dall’offensore.Grazie all’analisi dell’interdipendenza dei dati, modello APIM, si è inoltre evidenziato come il perdono di sé del partner offensore promuove sia la propria soddisfazione di coppia che quella del partner, vittima dell’offesa subita.<br>Recently psychosocial literature starts to study self-forgiveness: the psychological process by which an offender is able to forgive himself for an injury caused to himself or others. This paper considers self-forgiveness as a coping strategy that allows the person to decrease negative emotions (eg guilt) related to the offense committed and increase positive ones toward the self (eg self-compassion), where the offender starting point is taking responsibility for the wrongdoing. Self forgiveness is also considered as the result of offender and victim behaviours.
Experimental studies revealed that offender conciliatory behaviours and victim forgiveness increase offender self forgiveness. Self forgiveness is also studied in a closerelationship about a real partner offence. Structural equation models have confirmed that self forgiveness is improved by offender conciliatory behaviours and victim forgiveness. Repairing ducts were found associated with feeling guilty which is linked to the offender perception of seriousness. Through analysis of the interdependence of data, APIM model, it was also revealed that the partner's self-forgiveness offender promotes both offender couple satisfaction and victim couple satisfaction.
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Greer, Chelsea. "A Workbook to Promote Forgiveness for Ingroup Congregational Offenses." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3150.
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Since research on forgiveness has flourished over the past three decades, multiple interventions have been developed to aid individuals in this arduous process. Two interventions in particular have been most-widely studied with diverse groups: Enright’s process model (Enright & Fitzgibbons, 2000) and Worthington’s REACH Forgiveness model (2006). Thus far, these forgiveness interventions have been led by trained professionals in an in-person group. In-person interventions pose issues of cost and attendance. In the current study, I adapted Worthington’s Christian-adapted REACH Forgiveness intervention into a self-directed workbook for Christians who have experienced an offense within a religious community. Participants (N = 52) voluntarily completed the workbook for partial course credit, taking an average of 6.66 hours of time, and assessments at three time points. I found a significant treatment condition x time interaction, Wilks’ ë = .31, F(6,31) = 11.57, p < .001, partial ç² = .69, which indicates that the effect of time depended upon the treatment condition to which participants were assigned. In addition, the current study produced a larger effect size comparable to benchmarks of previous in-person REACH Forgiveness interventions (d = 1.63), and fell within the upper limit of the standard of change. The current findings encourage further analysis of this self-directed intervention which is cost-effective, easily disseminated, and found effective in this initial study.
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Zorzos, Steven P. "Addiction and idolatry self-renunciation, forgiveness and love, a healing meditation on the parable of the prodigal son /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p015-0482.
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Chang, Edward C., Emma R. Kahle, Elizabeth A. Yu, and Jameson K. Hirsch. "Understanding the Relationship Between Domestic Abuse and Suicide Behavior in Adults Receiving Primary Care: Does Forgiveness Matter?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swu028.
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This study examined the interrelation of domestic abuse, forgiveness of self, forgiveness of others, and suicide behavior in a community sample of 101 patients receiving primary care from a clinic in the southeastern United States. As expected, it was found that more frequent experience of domestic abuse was associated with more frequent suicide behavior. Results from conducting mediation analyses and using bootstrapping techniques provided support for a model in which the relationship between domestic abuse and suicide behavior was accounted for by forgiveness of self, but not by forgiveness of others. The article concludes with a discussion of some of the implications of the present findings for practice and the study's limitations.
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Fourtounas, Deonesea. "The experience of letting go a phenomenological study /." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06042004-080252.
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Reyna, Samuel H. "Self-Enhancement Processes in Couples." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011799/.
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Self-enhancement is a process by which individuals misperceive themselves by viewing themselves in a positively biased manner. Past research indicates that self-enhancement can have both positive and negative effects on romantic relationships. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the role of self-enhancement in unmarried dating couples (N = 124 couples; 248 individuals) with respect to conflict, dyadic adjustment, causal and responsibility attributions, and possible moderators between self-enhancement and dyadic adjustment. The results are organized in four sections. First, I found a curvilinear relationship between participant self-enhancement and conflict. At very low and very high levels of self-enhancement there were increased levels of conflict. Second, participant self-enhancement was positively associated with positively associated with increased participant dyadic adjustment, but there was no relationship between participant self-enhancement and partner dyadic adjustment. Third, there was no relationship between participant self-enhancement and causal and responsibility attributions. Fourth, forgiveness and commitment did not moderate the relationship between self-enhancement and dyadic adjustment; however, there were main effects for both forgiveness and commitment - both forgiveness and commitment were positively associated with dyadic adjustment. I conclude by discussing limitations, areas of future research, and implications for counseling.
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Kochendorfer, Logan B. "Interpersonal Competencies and the Quality of Emerging Adults' Experiences in Friendship." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1626449005331554.
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