The forgiving personality: Describing a life well lived?

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Insecure attachment and depressive symptoms: The mediating role of rumination, empathy, and forgiveness (2009, background): “Additionally, a great deal of research supports the link between unforgiving motivations and reduced life satisfaction, psychosomatic symptoms and depression (e.g., Bono et al., 2008; Lawler-Row & Piferi, 2006; Orth, Berking, Walker, Meier, & Znoj, 2008).”
Age differences in forgivingness: The role of future time perspective (2008, background): “Recently, Lawler-Row and Piferi (2006) found an age effect in forgivingness in a study of adults ranging from 50 to 95 years, with older adults describing themselves as more forgiving than the middle-aged.”
Psychological Strengths and Cognitive Vulnerabilities: Are They Two Ends of the Same Continuum or Do They Have Independent Relationships with Well-being and Ill-being? (2010, background): “2003), forgiveness (e.g., Brown 2003; Lawler-Row and Piferi 2006; Orcutt 2006; Reed and Enright 2006; Thompson et al. 2005), and humor (e.”
The Relationship Between Meaning in Life and Subjective Well-Being: Forgiveness and Hope as Mediators (2014, background): “Lawler-Row and Piferi (2006), in an adult sample, found that more forgiving people have higher subjective well-being and psychological well-being.”