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Measuring Individual Differences in the Tendency to Forgive: Construct Validity and Links with Depression

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Brown, Ryan P.·2003·Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
DOI 10.1177/0146167203029006008
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Four studies examine the construct validity of the Tendency to Forgive Scale (TTF), a brief measure of dispositional forgiveness. Study 1 showed that romantic partners' ratings of targets converged with targets' self-ratings, and Study 2 demonstrated that higher scores on the TTF were associated with lower offense accessibility. Study 3 examined the TTF's relation to self-reported depression symptoms, both independent of and interacting with attitudes toward forgiveness and dispositional vengeance. Lower TTF scores were associated with higher degrees of depression, especially for individuals with positive attitudes toward forgiveness or those low in dispositional vengeance, although neither of these latter variables displayed significant zero-order relations with depression. Finally, Study 4 examined relations between the TTF, dispositional empathy, another recent measure of dispositional forgiveness, and the dimensions of the Big Five, providing both convergent and discriminant validity evidence for the TTF.

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  1. McCullough, M. E., Hoyt, W. T. & Rachal, K. C. (2000). What we know (and need to know) about assessing forgiveness constructs. In M. E. McCullough, K. I. Pargament, & C. E. Thoresen (Eds.), Forgiveness: Theory, research, and practice (pp. 65-88). New York: Guilford.
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Authors
Brown, R. P.
Affiliations
University of Oklahoma (US)
Corresponding author
Brown, Ryan P.
ORCID
Brown, Ryan P.
Venue
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2003-06
Volume
29
Issue
6
Pages
759-771
ISSN
  • 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-7433
DOI
10.1177/0146167203029006008
OpenAlex
W2008629635
Cited by
505
References
44
Citations by year
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FWCI
11.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • SHAREOK (University of Oklahoma; Oklahoma State University; Central Oklahoma University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Forgiveness and Related Behaviors
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords
dispositional forgiveness, construct validity, depression, empathy, Big Five personality traits, romantic partners, convergent and discriminant validity
MeSH terms
Adult, Courtship, Depression, Emotions, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Predictive Value of Tests, Psychological Tests, Regression Analysis, United States, Reproducibility of Results

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