宽恕心理学:理论蕴涵与发展前瞻

Forgiveness Psychology: Theory, Measurement, and its Links to Well-being

从理论研究的角度来看,宽恕是一个动机结构;从社会实证角度讲,宽恕还是一种亲社会行为。影响人际宽恕的重要变量主要包括:属于认知和情绪过程的因素,属于人际关系质量方面的因素,属于情境方面的因素。这些因素是我们把宽恕应用于各项临床实践的重要前提。宽恕对于改善由于冒犯而造成的人际关系损害具有明显的积极影响作用。宽恕从动力机制上讲可以防止进一步寻求复仇和促进亲社会化改变。许多社会心理因素对于宽恕都具有正面的影响和决定作用。

Forgiveness promotes continuity in interpersonal relationships by mending the inevitable injuries and transgressions that occur in social interaction. Research evidence has proved that forgiveness is prosocial change in the motivations to avoid or to seek revenge against a transgressor. Socialpsychological factors that are correlates and determinants of forgiveness are reviewed.