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Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health
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To examine risk and resilience factors that affect health, lifetime stress exposure histories, dispositional forgiveness levels, and mental and physical health were assessed in 148 young adults. Greater lifetime stress severity and lower levels of forgiveness each uniquely predicted worse mental and physical health. Analyses also revealed a graded Stress × Forgiveness interaction effect, wherein associations between stress and mental health were weaker for persons exhibiting more forgiveness. These data are the first to elucidate the interactive effects of cumulative stress severity and forgiveness on health, and suggest that developing a more forgiving coping style may help minimize stress-related disorders.
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In 148 young adults, greater lifetime stress severity and lower dispositional forgiveness each uniquely predicted worse mental and physical health. Forgiveness moderated the stress–mental health link in a graded fashion but did not moderate the stress–physical health link.
Key findings
- Greater lifetime stress severity was associated with more mental health symptoms (β = 0.42, p < .001) and more physical health symptoms (β = 0.49, p < .001), while higher forgivingness predicted fewer mental (β = −0.34, p < .001) and physical (β = −0.19, p < .01) health symptoms.
- Forgivingness significantly moderated the effect of lifetime stress severity on mental health (β = −.173, p < .01): stress–mental health associations were strongest at low forgivingness (β = 0.68, p < .05), weaker at moderate forgivingness (β = 0.41, p < .05), and nonsignificant at high forgivingness (β = 0.15, p > .05).
- Forgivingness did not moderate the effect of lifetime stress severity on physical health (β = −0.02, p > .05).
- Bivariate correlations showed lifetime stress severity related to mental (r = .54, p < .001) and physical (r = .55, p < .001) health symptoms; forgivingness related negatively to mental (r = −.48, p < .001) and physical (r = −.35, p < .001) symptoms.
Methods
- Cross-sectional, correlational online study of 148 young adults recruited from a mid-sized liberal arts college in the Midwest; sample was 54% women, mean age 19.32 years (SD = 2.80), and 99% began college within the past 4 years.
- Measures included the STRAIN for lifetime stress exposure, the Heartland Forgiveness Scale for forgivingness, the Kessler 6 for mental health symptoms, and the 14-item Physical Health Questionnaire for physical health symptoms.
- Primary analyses used hierarchical regression models entering lifetime stress severity and forgivingness as direct effects, then their interaction, followed by simple slopes analyses at low, moderate, and high forgivingness.
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- The paper states that the study is cross-sectional and correlational, so conclusions about directionality and causality cannot be made.
- The paper states that it focused on major life stressors, did not examine daily hassles, role strain, or traumatic life stress, used self-reported health, did not examine sex differences, and relied on a convenience sample.
- Evident from the text: the sample was young, mostly single, over 99% without children, and recruited from one college campus, which limits generalizability to other populations and life stages.
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“Contrary to our hypothesis, forgivingness did not moderate the effects of cumulative lifetime stress severity on physical health (β = −0.02, p > .05; see Table 1, Physical Health Model 2).”
§ Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health > Results > Primary analyses
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“Additionally, greater lifetime stress severity was negatively related to forgivingness (r=−.26, p<.01, and r=−.33, p<.001, respectively).”
§ Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health > Results > Preliminary analyses
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“forgivingness significantly moderated the effects of lifetime stress severity on mental health (β=−.173, p<.01; see Table 1, Mental Health Model 2).”
§ Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health > Results > Primary analyses
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“forgivingness was negatively related to mental (r=−.48, p<.001) and physical health symptoms (r=−.35, p<.001).”
§ Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health > Results > Preliminary analyses
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“forgivingness was negatively related to mental (r=−.48, p<.001) and physical health symptoms (r=−.35, p<.001).”
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“higher levels of forgivingness predicting fewer mental health symptoms (β =−0.34, p<.001)”
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“participants with low levels of forgivingness (1.5 SDs or more below the mean) showed the strongest associations between lifetime stress severity and mental health symptoms (β=0.68, p < .05)”
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“followed by participants exhibiting moderate amounts of forgivingness (within 1.5 SDs of the mean) (β=0.41, p<.05), and finally by participants with high levels of forgivingness (1.5 SDs or more above the mean) (β=0.15, p > .05).”
§ Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health > Results > Primary analyses
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“As expected, participants experiencing more mental health symptoms also experienced more physical health symptoms (r=.56, p<.001).”
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“Greater total lifetime stressor severity was strongly associated with having more mental (r=.54, p<.001) and physical (r=.55, p<.001) health symptoms.”
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“greater lifetime stress severity predicting more mental health symptoms (β=0.42, p < .001)”
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“Greater total lifetime stressor severity was strongly associated with having more mental (r=.54, p<.001) and physical (r=.55, p<.001) health symptoms.”
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“greater lifetime stress severity predicting more physical health symptoms (β = 0.49, p < .001)”
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“First, this is a cross-sectional, correlational study and, as such, conclusions about directionality and causality cannot be made.”
§ Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health > Discussion
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“suggest that developing a more forgiving coping style may help minimize stress-related disorders.”
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“To the extent that forgiveness training can promote a more forgiving coping style, then these interventions may help reduce stress-related disease and improve human health.”
§ Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health > Abstract
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“Here, we demonstrated for the first time that forgivingness does buffer the negative effects of lifetime stress severity on mental health, and that this moderation occurs in a graded fashion.”
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“These data are the first to elucidate the interactive effects of cumulative stress severity and forgiveness on health”
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“Life stress is strongly associated with poor mental and physical health (Cohen et al., 2007; Slavich et al., 2010).”
§ Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites Cohen et al., 2007
- Not checked yetcites Slavich et al., 2010
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“Theorists now generally appreciate that stress occurring over the lifespan can have a cumulative effect on health; however, few studies have actually measured lifetime stress exposure and assessed the effects that such exposure has on mental and physical health outcomes.”
§ Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites Graham et al., 2006
- Not checked yetcites Lupien et al., 2009
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“Trait forgiveness has been called forgivingness, and high levels of forgivingness are thought to predispose a person to experience state forgiveness more often.”
§ Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites Berry et al., 2001
- Not checked yetcites Roberts, 1995
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“In bivariate analyses, most of the 20 stress severity indices were strongly associated with poorer health. As shown in Figure 1, only reproductive-, legal/criminal-, death-, and theft-related stressors were unrelated to health.”
§ Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health > Results > Preliminary analyses
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“Fourth, we did not examine potentially important sex differences, and future studies with larger samples might address this question.”
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“Finally, this study utilized a convenience sample.”
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“Psychometric work on the HFS shows acceptable confirmatory factor analyses, convergent/divergent validity, and internal and test–retest reliability (Thompson et al., 2005).”
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“Internal consistency for the HFS for this study was excellent (α = .90).”
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“Third, health was self-reported, and although the measures we used were psychometrically sound, objective measures of health status should also be investigated.”
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“the present data are the first to demonstrate that lifetime stress severity and forgivingness both have unique, independent effects on mental and physical health.”
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“Studies have shown that perceptions of stress fully mediate associations between forgiveness and mental and physical health symptoms (Green et al., 2012), and that forgiveness partially mediates the link between traumatic stress exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms (Orcutt et al., 2005).”
§ Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health > Abstract
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“Demonstrating a buffering effect of forgiveness on stress-related health symptoms requires evidence of moderation.”
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“Psychometric work on the PHQ shows acceptable exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, excellent convergent/divergent validity, and strong internal consistency (Schat et al., 2005).”
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“Research has demonstrated that forgiveness is associated with several mental health outcomes, including less anxiety, depression, and other major psychiatric disorders (Hirsch et al., 2011; Lin et al., 2004; Ryan and Kumar, 2005; Toussaint and Cheadle, 2009a; Toussaint et al., 2008).”
§ Effects of lifetime stress exposure on mental and physical health in young adulthood: How stress degrades and forgiveness protects health > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites Hirsch et al., 2011
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- Not checked yetcites Ryan and Kumar, 2005
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“In this context, forgiveness predicts fewer physical health symptoms, better overall physical health (Lawler et al., 2005; Seawell et al., 2014), healthier cardiovascular responses to stress (Lawler et al., 2003), and lower rates of cardiovascular disease (Friedberg et al., 2007; Toussaint and Cheadle, 2009b; Waltman et al., 2009).”
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- Not checked yetcites Lawler et al., 2005
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“Internal consistency for the PHQ for this study was good (α = .82).”
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“The K6 possesses excellent psychometric properties (Kessler et al., 2002, 2010).”
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“Forgiveness has been conceptualized as an emotion-focused coping process or style that can help people manage negative psychological and emotional experiences (i.e. unforgiveness) evoked by interpersonal conflict and stress (Strelan and Covic, 2006; Worthington and Scherer, 2004).”
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“The validity of this question set has been demonstrated in the context of predicting metabolic health (Kurtzman et al., 2012), cancer-related fatigue (Bower et al., 2014), and psychological and physical health (Slavich and Epel, in preparation).”
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- Not checked yetcites Kurtzman et al., 2012
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“The STRAIN is an online stress assessment system that measures individuals’ lifetime exposure to 96 different types of acute and chronic stress that affect health (Slavich and Epel, 2010; see http://www.uclastresslab.org/STRAIN).”
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“Internal consistency for the K6 for this study was excellent (α = .90).”
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Little research has examined whether forgivingness moderates or buffers associations between stress and health.
“In contrast to this mediational work, little research has examined whether forgivingness moderates or buffers associations between stress and health, despite the fact that the transactional model and the adapted stress and coping model of forgiveness offer the theoretical flexibility to consider coping variables as both mediators and moderators (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984).”
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It is not known whether forgiveness offers a protective benefit in the stress–health relationship.
“Evidence suggests that reductions in stress perceptions may help explain why forgiveness is related to health (Green et al., 2012; Orcutt et al., 2005), but to date it is not known if forgiveness offers a protective benefit in the stress–health equation.”
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“Cumulative life stress measured with the STRAIN has so far been associated with worse health, including poor self-reported physical health (Toussaint et al., 2016), impaired cognitive functioning (Goldfarb et al., 2017; Shields et al., 2017), and greater cancer-related depression and fatigue (Bower et al., 2014; Dooley et al., 2017).”
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“The 14-item Physical Health Questionnaire (PHQ) assesses somatic symptoms (Spence et al., 1987). Responses to 12 items are given on a 1 (not at all) to 7 (all the time) scale, and responses to 3 items are given on a 0 times to 7+ times scale.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Toussaint, L., Shields, G. S., Dorn, G., & Slavich, G. M.
- Affiliations
- Luther College (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Toussaint, Loren
- Venue
- Journal of Health Psychology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2014-08-19
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1004-1014
- ISSN
- 1359-1053 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7277
- PMC
- PMC4363296
- OpenAlex
- W2127698766
- Semantic Scholar
- 09680b2198e7426baeedaa6cd67a0547ba79fd74
- Cited by
- 253
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 65 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 33 · 2019: 29 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 14.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Health Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (K08MH103443)
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA140933)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Forgiveness and Related Behaviors
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Keywords
- dispositional forgiveness, mental health, physical health, young adults, coping styles, stress-related disorders
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Female, Health Status, Humans, Male, Mental Health, Severity of Illness Index, Stress, Psychological, Students, Young Adult, Forgiveness
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