Relationship Between Forgiveness, Triadic Forgiveness Dimensions, and Resilience in Javanese Emerging Adults

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10.2991/assehr.k.201125.002How to use a DOI?

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collectivistic culture, emerging adult, forgiveness, Indonesia, Javanese, resiliency

Abstract

This study explores the relationship between general forgiveness, the triad of forgiveness dimensions (i.e., forgiveness of self, others, and situations), and resilience in emerging adult Javanese undergraduate students. The study included 405 subjects (MAge = 18.50; SDAge = 0.600; male = 25.2%; female = 74.8%). The Forgiveness Scale, and the Indonesian version of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-25) were used to measure general forgiveness and its triad dimensions and resilience, respectively. The results of data analyses performed using Spearman’s rho showed that forgiveness of self, others, and situations were individually positively related to resilience. General forgiveness showed a greater correlation with resilience in men than in women. Forgiveness of situations consistently had the greatest correlation of all with resilience across all test results. In men, forgiveness of others had a higher correlation with resilience than self-forgiveness, whereas in women self-forgiveness had a higher correlation with resilience than forgiveness of others. Our results indicate that men reap greater benefits in terms of increasing resilience from forgiveness. In both sexes, forgiveness of situations had the greatest effect on resilience compared to self-forgiveness and forgiveness of others. Men showed greater ability to increase resilience by forgiving others; whereas resilience in women improved with self-forgiveness. Overall, since resilience is related to overcoming adversity, the results of this study indicate that forgiveness assists both men and women to overcome adversity. Although further research is required, our results further indicate that forgiveness may mediate the relationship between adverse experiences and resilience or even ameliorate the emergence of psychopathology. The differences between the sexes and their responses to different types of forgiveness need to be considered. These results have implications for researchers and practitioners in future studies and interventions.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Amalia Rahmandani
AU  - Dian Veronika Sakti Kaloeti
AU  - Salma Salma
AU  - Hastaning Sakti
AU  - Suparno Suparno
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/27
TI  - Relationship Between Forgiveness, Triadic Forgiveness Dimensions, and Resilience in Javanese Emerging Adults
BT  - Joint proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intervention and Applied Psychology (ICIAP 2019) and the 4th Universitas Indonesia Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 11
EP  - 34
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201125.002
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201125.002
ID  - Rahmandani2020
ER  -