Forgiveness and Health: Review and Reflections on a Matter of Faith, Feelings, and Physiology

By C. Witvliet. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Jo-Ann Tsang
2. Steven J. Sandage
3. H. Orcutt
4. William T. Hoyt
5. M. McCullough
6. Peter C. Hill
7. Peter Strelan
8. Tanya Covic

In Social Psychology

1. Jo-Ann Tsang
2. Steven J. Sandage
3. M. McCullough
4. H. Orcutt
5. Peter Strelan
6. William T. Hoyt
7. Peter C. Hill
8. Henry C. Vang

Citations in the corpus

• Psychometric and Rationalization Accounts of the Religion‐Forgiveness Discrepancy (2005, background): “As in Judaism, Christianity considers forgiveness to be foundational to its doctrine (e.g., Witvliet, 2001).”
• Toward a Multicultural Positive Psychology: (2003, background): “Fourth, there is initial evidence that forgiving others is positively correlated with certain indices of physical and mental health (Berry & Worthington, 2001; Maltby, Macaskill, & Day, 2001; Seybold, Hill, Neumann, & Chi, 2001; Toussaint et al., 2001; Witvliet, 2001).”
• Health Among Leaders: Positive and Negative Affect, Engagement and Burnout, Forgiveness and Revenge (2007, background): “Witvliet (2001) concluded that the published literature suggests that as forgiveness increases, so do indicators of mental health; and as unforgiveness increases, so do indicators of physiological stress and coronary heart disease (and vice versa).”
• A REVIEW OF FORGIVENESS PROCESS MODELS AND A COPING FRAMEWORK TO GUIDE FUTURE RESEARCH (2006, background): “The different interventions have been shown to be successful in reducing such negative psychological outcomes as anger, bitterness, depression (Baskin & Enright, 2004; Wade & Worthington, 2005), dysfunction, distress, physiological stress, and coronary heart disease (Witvliet, 2001).”
• EXPERIENTIAL AVOIDANCE AND FORGIVENESS AS MEDIATORS IN THE RELATION BETWEEN TRAUMATIC INTERPERSONAL EVENTS AND POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SYMPTOMS (2005, background): “In addition, Witvliet, Phipps, Feldman, and Beckham (2004) examined the relation of forgiveness to mental and physical health outcomes in a sample of 213 combat veterans with PTSD.”
• Dispositional forgiveness of self, others, and situations. (2005, background): “There is empirical support for the assertion that forgiveness is an adaptive method of coping (e.g., Rasmussen & Lopez, 2000), and that it is related to psychological well-being (e.g., Mauger et al., 1992; Subkoviak et al., 1995; Witvliet, 2001).”