The Influence Of Forgiveness Identity Salience On University Students’ Forgiveness Tendency Under Specific Offensive Situations

Forgiveness means that individuals have positive attitude of tolerance, understanding emotions and behaviors rather than negative emotions and behaviors of avoidance and revenge through highlighting the forgiveness identity and their own cognitive adjustment while they have been offended by people. For university students who are a special group living in collective livelihood, it has a great importance to discuss the forgiveness identity salience and characteristics and a particular relationship of the level of forgiveness tendency which under a specific life situations can improve forgiveness and identity salience theory. In a word, it has a practical guiding role in increasing the level of university students’psychological healthy.In this study, it has controlled the three indicators of forgiveness identity salience as independent variables through setting specific offensive situations that corresponded with the real university living situations. The experiment has researched the relationship between university students’forgiveness identity salience and individuals’level of forgiveness tendency under specific offended situations through experimental research on subjects combined with the questionnaire method. First, this study has localization fixed the predecessors’Forgiveness Likelihood Scales. Then, this study has combined scales and experiments to research the levels of individuals’forgiveness identity salience of246students among three universities in Wuhan. All the valid data have been put under related analysis, the main effect of test, the simple effect test and regression analysis via SPSS20.0software which have been used to examine characteristics and the relationship between college students’forgiveness identity salience and level of forgiveness tendency. The results show that:University students’individual forgiveness tendency is influenced by many factors. In specific offensive situations, it has been influenced by the three indicators of individuals’ forgiveness identity salience. Among the three indicators, individual’s status in the in-group has the greatest influence. The combined level of promised identity, emotion and status in the in-group have played a great interaction role in influencing the individual’s level of forgiveness tendency.Individuals’status in the in-group can greatly influence the level of forgiveness tendency. The emotion has a weaker influence while the promise level of identity has a weakest influence.Under the influence of two factors, when one factor is settled, the salience of the other factor will influence the individual’s level of forgiveness tendency. Generally, the salience of the other factor will have great influence. However, if the status of the in-group is not salience, individual’s level of promised identity will have a great influence on the level of forgiveness tendency while it’s not salience.Under the combined influence of the three factors, the salience of one factor will greatly influence the individual’s level of forgiveness tendency while the other two factors are settled.University students’forgiveness identity salience can effectively predict their levels’ forgiveness tendency. The explanation strengthen of the built regression model is22.4%...