Forgivingness, relationship quality, stress while imagining relationship events, and physical and mental health.

By John W. Berry, Everett L. Worthington Jr.. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Everett L. Worthington Jr.
2. H. Orcutt
3. E. Hui
4. Tat-sing. Chau
5. John Maltby
6. N. Wade
7. A. Caza
8. Kim Cameron

In Social Psychology

1. Everett L. Worthington Jr.
2. H. Orcutt
3. E. Hui
4. John Maltby
5. Tat-sing. Chau
6. Kim Cameron
7. N. Wade
8. G. Bono

Citations in the corpus

• Dimensions of forgiveness: The views of laypersons (2004, background): “However, emerging evidence clearly links forgiveness and health (e.g., Berry & Worthington, 2001; Lawler et al., 2003).”
• Mental health and interpersonal functioning in self-identified asexual men and women (2013, background): “Relationship status has been linked to mental health problems (Berry & Worthington, 2001; Holt-Lunstad, Birmingham, & Jones, 2008), and it has been suggested that it may be a mediating factor between non-heterosexual sexual identity and higher prevalence rates of some disorders (Sandfort et al.,…”
• Forgivingness, vengeful rumination, and affective traits. (2005, methodology): “forgivingness with extraversion (Brose et al., 2002; Berry et al., 2001; Emmons, 1992) and conscientiousness (Brose et al.”
• Forgiveness and mental health variables: Interpreting the relationship using an adaptational-continuum model of personality and coping (2004, background): “More specifically, using a variety of mental health indices (using measures of depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms, social dysfunction, anger, well-being, stress, happiness) forgiving thoughts, cognitions and behaviours are associated with indices of better mental health, and failure to forgive is”
• The prospective relationship of interpersonal forgiveness and psychological distress symptoms among college women (2006, methodology): “In a survey of 39 undergraduate students (20 women, 19 men), dispositional forgiveness (assessed with two different measures) was significantly positively associated with better mental health status as measured with the SF-36 Health Survey (Berry & Worthington, 2001).”
• The impact of a forgiveness intervention with Hong Kong Chinese children hurt in interpersonal relationships (2009, background): “These findings further confirm other studies which found a positive relationship between forgiveness and psychological well-being (Berry & Worthington, 2001; Brown, 2003).”
• Forgiveness is an emotion-focused coping strategy that can reduce health risks and promote health resilience: theory, review, and hypotheses (2004, background): “Berry and Worthington (2001) found base-rate production of salivary cortisol to be slightly elevated in people who were high in trait unforgiveness.”
• Dispositional forgiveness of self, others, and situations. (2005, background): “These finding are consistent with research about the links among forgiveness, relationship quality, commitment, and closeness (Berry & Worthington, 2001; Finkel, Rusbult, Kumashiro, & Hannon, 2002; McCullough et al., 1998; McCullough, 2000).”
• How forgiveness, purpose, and religiosity are related to the mental health and well-being of youth: A review of the literature (2007, background): “…of undergraduate college students, forgiveness was positively related to global mental health (Berry & Worthington, 2001), relationship quality (Berry & Worthington, 2001), hope (Rye et al., 2001), and existential and religious well-being (Rye et al., 2001), as well as negatively related to…”