When the injurer communicates an apology to the injured: Examining the injurer's experience

The purpose of this research study is to examine the experience of injurers when they communicate an apology to a party they perceive themselves to have injured, utilizing a phenomenological and self-hermeneutics approach to discovery. The literature review covers areas of research on apology, forgiveness, and self-forgiveness.;The injurer's experience of communicating an apology to the injured is explored through in-depth interviews with three women and a written self-hermeneutics disclosure by the researcher. The researcher's relationship to the inquiry is explored by bracketing her own biases and assumptions in relation to the topic of the study.;This study includes detailed summaries from all four participants in which salient themes regarding the injurers' experience are identified and described. The themes that surface from the three interviewers are triangulated with the researcher's experience and with the findings from the literature.