Forgiveness Of Adolescent And It's Effect To Well-being

Objects:Forgiveness is the positively re-attribution the offending behavioral,and well-beings are self-rating of the physiological or psychological satisfactions.Both are crucial factors for the establishing and maintaining long term social relationship.Recent Researched indicated that forgive the offending could be beneficial to psychological and subjective well-beings and is superior to the traditional offence countermeasures in improve personal situations,promote altruistic behaviors,increasing psychological and subjective well-beings,and benefit mental health.Adolescent hood is an important period for people to establish long-term relationship nevertheless also is a period which interpersonal conflicts were very common.Forgiveness could be an important factor to potentially benefiting the development during this period.The investigation of the current state of forgiveness and how forgiveness will affect well-beings,will provide important theoretical insights in both forgiveness education practicing and prompting adolescents' ethical level.Method:The present investigation using questionnaire and quasi-experiment to study the adolescents' forgiveness and how forgiveness could affect other psychological elements.Results:(1)Interpersonal trust,self-esteem and empathy were significantly positively correlated with interpersonal forgiveness behavior(P<0.01).Regression and structural equation modeling showed that interpersonal trust had significantly direct effect on interpersonal forgiveness behavior.Self-esteem and empathy had significantly mediating effect between interpersonal trust and interpersonal forgiveness behavior(effect=22.7%/15.9%).The existence of self-esteem empathy multiple mediating effects is also confirmed by the present study.(2)Sub-dimensions of forgiveness and dimension of psychological well-beings were significantly correlated with each other(P<0.01).Forgiveness toward self and toward peers,both predicted higher psychological well-being(P<0.001).Friendship significantly affected the interaction of forgiveness and psychological well-being.Self-reported forgiveness toward friends is positively correlated with subjective well-being,while self-reported forgiveness toward non-friends is negatively correlated with subjective well-being.While behavioral forgiveness is positively correlated with subjective well-being regardless of friendship status.Conclusion:The present study focus on the relationships between various factors with forgiveness behavior and well-beings,descripted the internal mechanism of forgiveness in youth population,and the modulation of friendship status toward forgiveness well-being relationship.The present study indicated that forgiveness could promote well-beings,and facilitate interpersonal relationship;and interpersonal trust could affect forgiveness directly or via mediating.The finding of this study will have important theoretical and application value for better promoting forgiveness and interpersonal relationships in populations.