Forgiveness and Health: Age Differences in a U.S. Probability Sample

By L. Toussaint, David R. Williams, M. Musick, S. Everson. 2001

360 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Mathias Allemand
2. Everett L. Worthington Jr.
3. P. Hill
4. Steven J. Sandage
5. P. Friedman
6. L. Toussaint
7. C. V. Van Dyke
8. M. Elias

In Health

1. Steven J. Sandage
2. Mathias Allemand
3. Everett L. Worthington Jr.
4. P. Hill
5. C. V. Van Dyke
6. Peter C. Hill
7. M. Elias
8. A. Abdel-Khalek

In Social Psychology

1. Mathias Allemand
2. Steven J. Sandage
3. Everett L. Worthington Jr.
4. P. Hill
5. P. Friedman
6. L. Toussaint
7. Peter C. Hill
8. C. V. Van Dyke

Citations in the corpus

• Forgiveness is an emotion-focused coping strategy that can reduce health risks and promote health resilience: theory, review, and hypotheses (2004, background): “Toussaint et al. (2001) conducted a national telephone survey of randomly selected people throughout the United States.”
• Dimensions of forgiveness: The views of laypersons (2004, methodology): “, 2001), no consensus on its most important dimensions (Toussaint et al., 2001), and no general understanding of the steps and processes involved (Denton & Martin, 1998).”
• Gratitude, forgivingness, and well-being in adulthood: Tests of moderation and incremental prediction (2011, result): “Counter to the findings of Toussaint et al. (2001), this study found little evidence for age as a moderator of the link between forgivingness and well-being.”
• Age differences in forgivingness: The role of future time perspective (2008, background): “…as a function of age, with young children and adolescents, on average, being least willing to forgive and older adults being most willing (e.g., Enright, Gassin, & Wu, 1992; Girard & Mullet, 1997; Mullet & Girard, 2000; Mullet et al., 1998, 2003; Subkoviak et al., 1995; Toussaint et al., 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).”
• Forgiveness, Gratitude, and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Affect and Beliefs (2009, background): “In other words, with few exceptions (Krause and Ellison 2003; Rye et al. 2001; Toussaint et al. 2001; Watkins et al. 2003; Emmons and McCullough 2003) the majority of the research seems to focus on the potential for forgiveness and gratitude to prevent the negative instead of promote the positive si”