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Victim's Perspective of Forgiveness Seeking Behaviors After Transgressions
Forgiveness seeking after a relational transgression is an important aspect of relational repair from an interpersonal perspective, although it has received much less attention than the process of granting forgiveness. This research focuses on the victim's perspective of the transgressor's...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8096994/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33967920 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.656689 |
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author | Martinez-Diaz, Pilar Caperos, Jose M. Prieto-Ursúa, Maria Gismero-González, Elena Cagigal, Virginia Carrasco, Maria José |
author_facet | Martinez-Diaz, Pilar Caperos, Jose M. Prieto-Ursúa, Maria Gismero-González, Elena Cagigal, Virginia Carrasco, Maria José |
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description | Forgiveness seeking after a relational transgression is an important aspect of relational repair from an interpersonal perspective, although it has received much less attention than the process of granting forgiveness. This research focuses on the victim's perspective of the transgressor's behaviors and how they are related to forgiveness and offense characteristics. This paper proposes a multidimensional concept of seeking forgiveness that includes four dimensions: apologies, restorative action, relational caring behaviors, and diverting behaviors. A questionnaire for assessing these dimensions was developed and tested with a general population sample of 450 subjects. Participants recalled a specific offense and then answered a questionnaire about the perceived usefulness of different forgiveness-seeking behaviors, a forgiveness inventory, and several questions regarding the characteristics of the offense (severity, intentionality, and frequency). Our results support the four-factor structure of the questionnaire. As the perceived intentionality of the offense increases, behaviors that are directly related to the transgression, such as apologies and restorative actions, are experienced as less useful for forgiveness. The more hurtful the offense, the less useful the diverting behaviors are. Behavior such as apologies and restorative action are related to a lower (less) motivation for revenge, while all forgiveness-seeking behaviors are related to an increase in feelings of benevolence toward the offender. |
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spelling | pubmed-80969942021-05-06 Victim's Perspective of Forgiveness Seeking Behaviors After Transgressions Martinez-Diaz, Pilar Caperos, Jose M. Prieto-Ursúa, Maria Gismero-González, Elena Cagigal, Virginia Carrasco, Maria José Front Psychol Psychology Forgiveness seeking after a relational transgression is an important aspect of relational repair from an interpersonal perspective, although it has received much less attention than the process of granting forgiveness. This research focuses on the victim's perspective of the transgressor's behaviors and how they are related to forgiveness and offense characteristics. This paper proposes a multidimensional concept of seeking forgiveness that includes four dimensions: apologies, restorative action, relational caring behaviors, and diverting behaviors. A questionnaire for assessing these dimensions was developed and tested with a general population sample of 450 subjects. Participants recalled a specific offense and then answered a questionnaire about the perceived usefulness of different forgiveness-seeking behaviors, a forgiveness inventory, and several questions regarding the characteristics of the offense (severity, intentionality, and frequency). Our results support the four-factor structure of the questionnaire. As the perceived intentionality of the offense increases, behaviors that are directly related to the transgression, such as apologies and restorative actions, are experienced as less useful for forgiveness. The more hurtful the offense, the less useful the diverting behaviors are. Behavior such as apologies and restorative action are related to a lower (less) motivation for revenge, while all forgiveness-seeking behaviors are related to an increase in feelings of benevolence toward the offender. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8096994/ /pubmed/33967920 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.656689 Text en Copyright © 2021 Martinez-Diaz, Caperos, Prieto-Ursúa, Gismero-González, Cagigal and Carrasco. https://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 Martinez-Diaz, Pilar Caperos, Jose M. Prieto-Ursúa, Maria Gismero-González, Elena Cagigal, Virginia Carrasco, Maria José Victim's Perspective of Forgiveness Seeking Behaviors After Transgressions |
title | Victim's Perspective of Forgiveness Seeking Behaviors After Transgressions |
title_full | Victim's Perspective of Forgiveness Seeking Behaviors After Transgressions |
title_fullStr | Victim's Perspective of Forgiveness Seeking Behaviors After Transgressions |
title_full_unstemmed | Victim's Perspective of Forgiveness Seeking Behaviors After Transgressions |
title_short | Victim's Perspective of Forgiveness Seeking Behaviors After Transgressions |
title_sort | victim's perspective of forgiveness seeking behaviors after transgressions |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8096994/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33967920 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.656689 |
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