Department of Education Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Psychol Health. 2009 Jan;24(1):11-27. doi: 10.1080/08870440903126371.
This research assesses the effects of a psychology of forgiveness pilot study on anger-recall stress induced changes in myocardial perfusion, forgiveness and related variables. Thirty-two patients were administered baseline rest and anger-recall stress imaging studies, and 17 of these participants who demonstrated anger-recall stress induced myocardial perfusion defects (forgiveness group, n = 9; control group, n = 8) were randomly assigned to a series of 10 weekly interpersonal forgiveness or control therapy sessions with a trained psychologist, and underwent additional anger-recall stress myocardial perfusion nuclear imaging studies post-test and at 10-week follow-up. Patients assigned to the forgiveness group showed significantly fewer anger-recall induced myocardial perfusion defects from pre-test to the 10-week follow-up as well as significantly greater gains in forgiveness from pre-test to post-test and from pre-test to follow-up compared to the control group. Forgiveness intervention may be an effective means of reducing anger-induced myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary artery disease.
本研究评估了宽恕心理的初步研究对愤怒回忆应激引起的心肌灌注、宽恕和相关变量变化的影响。32 名患者接受了基线休息和愤怒回忆应激成像研究，其中 17 名表现出愤怒回忆应激诱导的心肌灌注缺陷的患者（宽恕组，n=9；对照组，n=8）被随机分配到一系列 10 周的人际宽恕或对照治疗课程中，由一名训练有素的心理学家进行治疗，并在随后的愤怒回忆应激心肌灌注核成像研究中进行了测试，并在 10 周的随访中进行了测试。与对照组相比，被分配到宽恕组的患者从预测试到 10 周随访期间，愤怒回忆引起的心肌灌注缺陷明显减少，并且从预测试到后测试以及从预测试到随访期间，宽恕的获益明显增加。宽恕干预可能是减少冠心病患者愤怒引起的心肌缺血的有效方法。
