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Self-Esteem Moderates the Effect of Compromising Thinking on Forgiveness Among Chinese Early Adolescents
Forgiveness contributes to positive social relationships, which is critical for individual development, particularly for early adolescents. Most previous studies focused on the unique roles of cognitive factors (e.g., compromising thinking) and personality traits (e.g., self-esteem) in the process o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7010859/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32116915 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00104 |
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author | Hong, Wei Liu, Ru-De Ding, Yi Oei, Tian Po Fu, Xinchen Jiang, Ronghuan Jiang, Shuyang |
author_facet | Hong, Wei Liu, Ru-De Ding, Yi Oei, Tian Po Fu, Xinchen Jiang, Ronghuan Jiang, Shuyang |
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description | Forgiveness contributes to positive social relationships, which is critical for individual development, particularly for early adolescents. Most previous studies focused on the unique roles of cognitive factors (e.g., compromising thinking) and personality traits (e.g., self-esteem) in the process of developing forgiveness. However, sporadic research has examined their interactive effect on forgiveness from an integrated perspective. Given that forgiveness has been categorized into decisional and emotional forgiveness, this study aimed to examine the effects of compromising thinking on two types of forgiveness, and the moderating effects of self-esteem on the association between compromising thinking and forgiveness among early adolescents. A total of 1,009 Chinese primary and secondary school students (50.4% males; M (age) = 11.75, SD = 1.27) were recruited to complete three self-reported questionnaires. The results showed that compromising thinking predicted decisional forgiveness but not emotional forgiveness. Furthermore, self-esteem was identified to moderate the conditional effects of compromising thinking on decisional and emotional forgiveness. These findings advance a better understanding of the construct and mechanism of forgiveness, which can provide insights for targeted forgiveness interventions among early adolescents, such as compromising thinking instructions and self-esteem enhancement programs. |
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spelling | pubmed-70108592020-02-28 Self-Esteem Moderates the Effect of Compromising Thinking on Forgiveness Among Chinese Early Adolescents Hong, Wei Liu, Ru-De Ding, Yi Oei, Tian Po Fu, Xinchen Jiang, Ronghuan Jiang, Shuyang Front Psychol Psychology Forgiveness contributes to positive social relationships, which is critical for individual development, particularly for early adolescents. Most previous studies focused on the unique roles of cognitive factors (e.g., compromising thinking) and personality traits (e.g., self-esteem) in the process of developing forgiveness. However, sporadic research has examined their interactive effect on forgiveness from an integrated perspective. Given that forgiveness has been categorized into decisional and emotional forgiveness, this study aimed to examine the effects of compromising thinking on two types of forgiveness, and the moderating effects of self-esteem on the association between compromising thinking and forgiveness among early adolescents. A total of 1,009 Chinese primary and secondary school students (50.4% males; M (age) = 11.75, SD = 1.27) were recruited to complete three self-reported questionnaires. The results showed that compromising thinking predicted decisional forgiveness but not emotional forgiveness. Furthermore, self-esteem was identified to moderate the conditional effects of compromising thinking on decisional and emotional forgiveness. These findings advance a better understanding of the construct and mechanism of forgiveness, which can provide insights for targeted forgiveness interventions among early adolescents, such as compromising thinking instructions and self-esteem enhancement programs. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7010859/ /pubmed/32116915 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00104 Text en Copyright © 2020 Hong, Liu, Ding, Oei, Fu, Jiang and Jiang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Hong, Wei Liu, Ru-De Ding, Yi Oei, Tian Po Fu, Xinchen Jiang, Ronghuan Jiang, Shuyang Self-Esteem Moderates the Effect of Compromising Thinking on Forgiveness Among Chinese Early Adolescents |
title | Self-Esteem Moderates the Effect of Compromising Thinking on Forgiveness Among Chinese Early Adolescents |
title_full | Self-Esteem Moderates the Effect of Compromising Thinking on Forgiveness Among Chinese Early Adolescents |
title_fullStr | Self-Esteem Moderates the Effect of Compromising Thinking on Forgiveness Among Chinese Early Adolescents |
title_full_unstemmed | Self-Esteem Moderates the Effect of Compromising Thinking on Forgiveness Among Chinese Early Adolescents |
title_short | Self-Esteem Moderates the Effect of Compromising Thinking on Forgiveness Among Chinese Early Adolescents |
title_sort | self-esteem moderates the effect of compromising thinking on forgiveness among chinese early adolescents |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7010859/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32116915 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00104 |
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