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Forgiveness in the Modulation of Responsibility in a Sample of Italian Adolescents with a Tendency towards Conduct or Obsessive–Compulsive Problems

Although obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and the conduct disorders (CD) express a contrasting symptomatology, they could represent different answers to a common matrix about morality. In the literature, some theoretical models describe people with OCD as individuals who experience high levels of...

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Autores principales: Buonanno, Carlo, Iuliano, Enrico, Grossi, Giuseppe, Mancini, Francesco, Stendardo, Emiliana, Tudisco, Fabrizia, Pizzini, Barbara
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8534277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34679398
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11101333
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author Buonanno, Carlo
Iuliano, Enrico
Grossi, Giuseppe
Mancini, Francesco
Stendardo, Emiliana
Tudisco, Fabrizia
Pizzini, Barbara
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Iuliano, Enrico
Grossi, Giuseppe
Mancini, Francesco
Stendardo, Emiliana
Tudisco, Fabrizia
Pizzini, Barbara
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description Although obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and the conduct disorders (CD) express a contrasting symptomatology, they could represent different answers to a common matrix about morality. In the literature, some theoretical models describe people with OCD as individuals who experience high levels of responsibility and guilt. On the other hand, adolescents with a CD are described as if they do not feel guilty at all or consider anti-social purposes as more important than existing moral purposes. The aims of this study were to investigate the role of forgiveness in responsibility and guilt levels and to test whether this putative relation was influenced by tendencies towards obsessive–compulsive problems (OCP) or conduct problems (CP). In total, 231 adolescents aged between 16 and 18 years were self-assessed using a Youth Self-Report, Child Responsibility Attitudes Questionnaire, Heartland Forgiveness Scale, and Test Of Self-Conscious Affect. The results show that self-forgiveness predicted responsibility levels, while guilt was predicted by self-forgiveness and situation-forgiveness. Moreover, mediation analyses revealed that the effects of OCP on responsibility and guilt were mediated by self-forgiveness and situation-forgiveness. Regarding CP, no mediated effects were found. In conclusion, lower proneness to forgive increases responsibility and guilt, and this is particularly evident in subjects with higher levels of OCP.
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spelling pubmed-85342772021-10-23 Forgiveness in the Modulation of Responsibility in a Sample of Italian Adolescents with a Tendency towards Conduct or Obsessive–Compulsive Problems Buonanno, Carlo Iuliano, Enrico Grossi, Giuseppe Mancini, Francesco Stendardo, Emiliana Tudisco, Fabrizia Pizzini, Barbara Brain Sci Article Although obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and the conduct disorders (CD) express a contrasting symptomatology, they could represent different answers to a common matrix about morality. In the literature, some theoretical models describe people with OCD as individuals who experience high levels of responsibility and guilt. On the other hand, adolescents with a CD are described as if they do not feel guilty at all or consider anti-social purposes as more important than existing moral purposes. The aims of this study were to investigate the role of forgiveness in responsibility and guilt levels and to test whether this putative relation was influenced by tendencies towards obsessive–compulsive problems (OCP) or conduct problems (CP). In total, 231 adolescents aged between 16 and 18 years were self-assessed using a Youth Self-Report, Child Responsibility Attitudes Questionnaire, Heartland Forgiveness Scale, and Test Of Self-Conscious Affect. The results show that self-forgiveness predicted responsibility levels, while guilt was predicted by self-forgiveness and situation-forgiveness. Moreover, mediation analyses revealed that the effects of OCP on responsibility and guilt were mediated by self-forgiveness and situation-forgiveness. Regarding CP, no mediated effects were found. In conclusion, lower proneness to forgive increases responsibility and guilt, and this is particularly evident in subjects with higher levels of OCP. MDPI 2021-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8534277/ /pubmed/34679398 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11101333 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Buonanno, Carlo
Iuliano, Enrico
Grossi, Giuseppe
Mancini, Francesco
Stendardo, Emiliana
Tudisco, Fabrizia
Pizzini, Barbara
Forgiveness in the Modulation of Responsibility in a Sample of Italian Adolescents with a Tendency towards Conduct or Obsessive–Compulsive Problems
title Forgiveness in the Modulation of Responsibility in a Sample of Italian Adolescents with a Tendency towards Conduct or Obsessive–Compulsive Problems
title_full Forgiveness in the Modulation of Responsibility in a Sample of Italian Adolescents with a Tendency towards Conduct or Obsessive–Compulsive Problems
title_fullStr Forgiveness in the Modulation of Responsibility in a Sample of Italian Adolescents with a Tendency towards Conduct or Obsessive–Compulsive Problems
title_full_unstemmed Forgiveness in the Modulation of Responsibility in a Sample of Italian Adolescents with a Tendency towards Conduct or Obsessive–Compulsive Problems
title_short Forgiveness in the Modulation of Responsibility in a Sample of Italian Adolescents with a Tendency towards Conduct or Obsessive–Compulsive Problems
title_sort forgiveness in the modulation of responsibility in a sample of italian adolescents with a tendency towards conduct or obsessive–compulsive problems
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8534277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34679398
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11101333
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