RT Article
T1 Compassionate love and dispositional forgiveness: does compassionate love predict dispositional forgiveness?
JF Journal of spirituality in mental health
VO 24
IS 1
SP 95
OP 111
A1 Kim, Jichan J.
A1 Enright, Robert D.
A1 Wong, Lai
A2 Enright, Robert D.
A2 Wong, Lai
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1789487013
AB Despite the conceptual link between love and forgiveness, empirical evidence for the relationship between the two is scarce. Also, controversy exists surrounding the use of a self-evaluated forgiveness tendency as a measure of dispositional forgiveness. One hundred adults filled out an online survey to provide the data for this study. Compassionate love, commitment to forgiveness, and valuing forgiveness were moderately associated with dispositional forgiveness. Compassionate love predicted dispositional forgiveness over and above all other measures. The feasibility of measuring dispositional forgiveness accounting for the occurrences of actual transgressions and the presence of compassionate love among those showing forgivingness are discussed.
K1 positive psychology
K1 forgiveness-love link
K1 Compassionate Love
K1 Dispositional forgiveness
DO 10.1080/19349637.2020.1739598