Toward Forgiveness: The Role of Shame, Guilt, Anger, and Empathy
By V. Konstam, M. Chernoff, Sara Deveney. Counseling and Values, 2001
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This research explored forgiving and its relationship to adaptive moral emotional processes: proneness to shame, guilt, anger, and empathic responsiveness. Gender differences associated with forgiving were analyzed. Participants were 138 graduate students in a large northeastern urban university. Results revealed that guilt-proneness was positively related to Total Forgiveness, as were Empathetic Concern and Perspective Taking. A positive relationship between anger reduction and Overall Forgiveness was found. Guilt-proneness, anger reduction, and detachment informed the process of forgiveness for women. For men, age, shame-proneness, and pride in behavior informed the process of forgiveness. Implications and possible research are discussed.
Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Attachment and trait forgivingness: The mediating role of angry rumination (2007, unknown): “…(Mikulincer & Shaver, 2005) and allows a person to shift resources, including taking others' perspective and regulating anger—key mechanisms underlying forgiving (Farrow et al., 2001; Konstam, Chernoff, & Deveney, 2001; McCullough, Worthington, & Rachel, 1997; Paleari, Regalia, & Fincham, 2005).”
- Does good emotion management aid forgiving? Multiple dimensions of empathy, emotion management and forgiveness of self and others (2007, background): “Indeed, Konstam et al. (2001) found that these two forms of empathy, but not personal distress, predicted forgiveness in a university student sample.”