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No genuine self-forgiveness without accepting responsibility: Value reaffirmation as a key to maintaining positive self-regard.
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European Journal of Social Psychology . Aug2012, Vol. 42 Issue 5, p617-627. 11p. 5 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Measures of self-forgiveness that merely focus on the outcome of positive self-regard risk neglecting the process through which offenders restore it. They may thus tap pseudo self-forgiveness where offenders downplay their responsibility for the wrongdoing. For genuine self-forgiveness, the process should instead involve an attenuation of the negative link between responsibility acceptance and positive self-regard. In this paper, we examine how acts of value reaffirmation facilitate genuine self-forgiveness. In Study 1, a role-play experiment (N = 90), participants either confessed their wrongdoing to the victim or not. Although responsibility acceptance was strongly negatively related to reported self-forgiveness (i.e., self-regard), this relationship was tempered when participants confessed their wrongdoing to the victim and, through this, reaffirmed the violated values. In Study 2, a longitudinal study referring to self-reported transgressions (N = 74), responsibility acceptance was negatively related to self-forgiveness measures as well as self-esteem when offenders showed little value reaffirmation, but not when they more strongly reaffirmed the violated values. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ANALYSIS of variance
*CHI-squared test
*COLLEGE students
*FORGIVENESS
*LONGITUDINAL method
*PSYCHOLOGY
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*REGRESSION analysis
*RESEARCH funding
*RESPONSIBILITY
*ROLE playing
*STATISTICAL sampling
*SCALES (Weighing instruments)
*SELF-perception
*STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
*VALUES (Ethics)
*THEORY
*DATA analysis software
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
RESEARCH evaluation
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00462772
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- European Journal of Social Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 77603021
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.1873