| In recent years,the research of positive psychology has been paid more and more attention,and more and more studies have been done on self-forgiveness.Current research shows that self-forgiveness can help people better accept themselves,reduce negative emotions,and move on from life events faster.Teenagers are in a period of rapid development and change in physiology,psychology and thought.They are prone to emotional distress or even psychological problems due to the difficulty in self-forgiveness after making mistakes.Therefore,the study of self-forgiveness is of great significance to the mental health of adolescents.This study used the Adolescent Forgiveness Tendency Questionnaire,Emotion Management Scale and Mental Health Test to investigate the status of self-forgiveness among 970 adolescents,and to explore the relationship between self-forgiveness,emotion management and mental health.Under the condition that the overall level of forgiveness was low,we developed a group program for self-forgiveness by integrating activities related to cognition and emotion on the basis of Worthington’s REACH forgiveness intervention model,and conducted 8 sessions of group counseling intervention that lasted for 2months on 13 adolescents to improve the level of self-forgiveness,promote the development of adolescents’ mental health.The main conclusions of this study are as follows:(1)Adolescents have a low level of self-forgiveness and are more inclined to punish themselves rather than forgive themselves after doing something wrong.The self-forgiveness level of male students is higher than that of female students.The self-forgiveness level of teenagers in different areas has significant difference,which is shown as: City > town > rural areas.And there is no significant difference in the level of self-forgiveness in different grades and whether they are the only child.(2)Adolescents’ emotional management ability is at a medium level.The emotional management ability level: boys>girls,cities>towns,singleton>non-singleton.There is no significant difference of emotional management level in different grades.(3)Mental health status of adolescents is generally good,but 6.42% of adolescents have mental health problems.Among mental health problems,the incidence rates of learning anxiety,physical symptoms,allergy tendency,self-accusation tendency and anxiety towards people are 63.90%,28.24%,26.80%,20.82%,and 11.41% respectively,and learning anxiety is common among teenagers.(4)Self-forgiveness has a significant positive correlation with mental health and all the sub-dimensions.There is a significant positive correlation between self-forgiveness and mental health,and a significant negative correlation between self-punishment and mental health.Emotion management is positively correlated with self-forgiveness and forgiving oneself,and negatively correlated with self-punishment.Emotion management is positively correlated with mental health.Adolescents’ self-forgiveness can predict their mental health to a certain extent.(5)Adolescent emotion management ability plays a mediating role between self-forgiveness and mental health,and the mediating effect size is-0.196.The mediating effect of emotion management is 0.223.(6)The self-made group counseling program of self-forgiveness can effectively improve the level of self-forgiveness of adolescents,and the effect can be sustained for a period of time,and can be used in the process of school forgiveness education.The present study focuses on self-forgiveness,which is generally neglected in the field of forgiveness,and the previous research on self-forgiveness are mostly reviews.Therefore,this study can not only expand the research on the relationship of self-forgiveness with other variables in theory,but also provide empirical guidance for group intervention in self-forgiveness.There is a long way to go for the mental health development of adolescents.The researchers hope to promote the healthy growth and development of adolescents in China with this meager effort. |
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