Intervention Studies on Forgiveness: A Meta‐Analysis

By Thomas W Baskin, R. Enright. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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The prospective relationship of interpersonal forgiveness and psychological distress symptoms among college women (2006, methodology): “Enright, a prominent researcher in forgiveness, and colleagues (e.g., Baskin & Enright, 2004) have defined interpersonal forgiveness as the “willful giving up of resentment in the face of another’s (or other’s) considerable injustice and responding with beneficence to the offender even though the…”
Facilitating forgiveness in the treatment of infidelity: an interpersonal model (2011, background): “Studies show that forgiveness is helpful for people who are trying to overcome deep emotional pain resulting from interpersonal injuries or injustices they have experienced (Baskin & Enright, 2004).”
Tailoring positive psychology interventions to treat depressed individuals. (2011, unknown): “A meta-analysis of several controlled forgiveness interventions suggests that the process of willfully giving up resentment and developing empathy for an offender can improve one's emotional health, as measured by scales of depression, anxiety, hope, and selfesteem (Baskin & Enright, 2004).”
Gratitude, forgivingness, and well-being in adulthood: Tests of moderation and incremental prediction (2011, unknown): “Previous research already has demonstrated the efficacy of interventions to promote forgiveness (Baskin & Enright, 2004; Worthington, Sandage, & Berry, 2000) and gratitude (Emmons & McCullough, 2003; Watkins et al., 2003).”
Forgiveness as a Coping Strategy to Allow School Students to Deal With the Effects of Being Bullied: Theoretical and Empirical Discussion (2009, background): “Baskin and Enright (2004) conducted a meta-analysis synthesizing the results of nine forgiveness intervention studies, which reported on counseling interventions that promoted forgiveness as a means for addressing a range of mental health issues. It was found that forgivenessbased interventions - co”
SELF-REPORTED EXPERIENCES OF DISCRIMINATION AND HEALTH: SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES, ONGOING CONTROVERSIES, AND EMERGING ISSUES (2015, background): “Forgiveness is defined as choosing to give up resentment in the face of injustice or unfair treatment and offering mercy and compassion toward the offender (Baskin & Enright 2004).”
Effectiveness of positive psychology interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, methodology): “For post-treatment wellbeing, effect sizes ranged from 0.23 in Renshaw and Olinger Steeves (2016) meta-analysis of school-based gratitude interventions, to 1.42 in Baskin and Enright (2004) meta-analysis of individual process interventions for forgiveness.”
The impact of a forgiveness intervention with Hong Kong Chinese children hurt in interpersonal relationships (2009, methodology): “Baskin and Enright (2004) concluded from their meta-analysis that the effect size of decision-based interventions was low compared with process-based group or individual interventions.”
Process-Based Forgiveness Interventions: A Meta-Analytic Review (2008, methodology): “As described by Baskin and Enright (2004), “forgiveness is defined as the willful giving up of resentment in the face of another’s (or others’) considerable injustice and responding with beneficence to the offender even though that offender has no right to the forgiver’s moral goodness” (p. 80).”