Vengefulness: Relationships with Forgiveness, Rumination, Well-Being, and the Big Five

By M. McCullough, G. Bellah, S. Kilpatrick. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Secondary Victimization of Crime Victims by Criminal Proceedings (2002, neutral): “Several functions of retaliation have been distinguished: retaliation shall re-equilibrate gains and losses of the assault, re-equilibrate power, and restore the victim’s self-esteem (Frijda, 1994; McCullough, Bellah, Kilpatrick, and Johnson, 2001; Miller, 2001; Vidmar, 2000).”
Forgiveness, Gratitude, and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Affect and Beliefs (2009, background): “McCullough et al. (2001) also documented the absence of a connection between forgiveness motives and satisfaction with life.”
The Consequences of Dysphoric Rumination (2008, background): “…during stressful times (Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow, 1991), tend to show maladaptive and even dangerous responses to interpersonal offenses (e.g., “I’ll make him pay”; McCullough et al., 1998, 2001), and express reduced satisfaction and commitment to their solutions and plans (Ward et al., 2002).”
Letting bygones be bygones: further evidence for the validity of the Tendency to Forgive scale (2005, background): “Finally, the trait rumination measure was included to address our concern that all any measure of trait forgiveness assesses is the tendency to ruminate, rather than a unique and important construct specific to interpersonal relations ( McCullough, Bellah, Kilpatrick, & Johnson, 2001 ).”
Direct and indirect relations between the Big 5 personality traits and aggressive and violent behavior (2012, background): “Sharpe and Desai (2001) found that Neuroticism is positively related to anger and hostility (aggressive emotions), whereas Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness are negatively related to these emotions.”
The role of trait forgiveness and relationship satisfaction in episodic forgiveness (2007, background): “Further, people high in trait forgiveness are less ruminative than people low in trait forgiveness ( McCullough, Bellah, Kilpatrick, & Johnson, 2001 ).”
We're All Victims Here: Toward a Psychology of Revenge (2008, background): “Some likely candidates for study include forgiveness (Hargrave & Sells, 1997; McCullough, Bellah, Kilpatrick, & Johnson, 2001) and dispositional empathy (Davis, 1983, 1996), belief in a just world (Janoff-Bulman, 1992; Rubin & Peplau, 1975), vengefulness (McCullough et al., 2001; Stuckless & Goranso”
Forgiveness and Personality Traits (2005, result): “Empirical research generally supports this hypothesis, finding positive correlations between Agreeableness and forgiveness of others (Ashton et al., 1998; McCullough et al., 2001; Ross, Kendall, Matters, Wrobel, & Rye, 2004).”
Personality, self‐esteem, and self‐construal as correlates of forgivingness (2004, background): “AN and FS—PP, Forgiveness—Absence of Negative and Forgiveness—Presence of Positive Thoughts, Feelings & Behavior Scales (Rye et al., 2001); IRRSFS, Forgiveness Subscale of the Interpersonal Relationship Resolution Scale (Hargrave & Sells, 1997); JPI, Jackson Personality Inventory (Jackson, 1994); TN”
Forgiveness, forbearance, and time: the temporal unfolding of transgression-related interpersonal motivations. (2003, background): “Both subscales have high internal consistency (i.e., .85), moderate test–retest stability (e.g., 8-week test–retest rs approximately .50), and evidence of convergent and discriminant validity (McCullough et al., 1998, 2001).”
The Impact of Intergroup Emotions on Forgiveness in Northern Ireland (2007, background): “Forgiving a transgressor has, in fact, repeatedly been shown to result in less turmoil and more positive emotional reactions compared with not forgiving a transgressor ( McCullough, Bellah, Kilpatrick, & Johnson, 2001 ).”