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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | When just-world beliefs promote and when they inhibit forgiveness |
Author: | Strelan, P. Sutton, R. |
Citation: | Personality and Individual Differences, 2011; 50(2):163-168 |
Publisher: | Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
ISSN: | 0191-8869 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Peter Strelan, Robbie M. Sutton |
Abstract: | The present study provides further evidence that justice and forgiveness are not necessarily competitive responses. Among 157 undergraduates instructed to recall either serious or benign transgressions, just-world beliefs for the self (BJW-self) was associated with forgiveness as inhibition of negative responding but not forgiveness as positive responding. Each of these relations was significantly moderated by transgression severity: the more benign the transgression, the stronger the relationship. Just-world beliefs for others (BJW-others) was negatively associated with inhibition of negative responding and unrelated to positive responding. These relations held over and above well-established predictors of transgression-specific forgiveness (relationship closeness and post-transgression offender effort), and an individual difference variable, justice sensitivity. In practical terms, BJW-self may enable people to better deal with minor stressors. An important theoretical implication is that modelling the relationship between just-world beliefs and forgiveness requires a bidimensional conception of both constructs. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. |
Keywords: | BJW Forgiveness Severity Closeness Justice sensitivity |
Rights: | Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.paid.2010.09.019 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.09.019 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Psychology publications |
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