University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2018 Mar 12;13(3):e0193357. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193357. eCollection 2018.
The present research addresses the question of whether regulatory-mode orientations affect self-forgiveness. We expected that people with a strong locomotion orientation would be more inclined to self-forgiveness because of their tendencies toward movement and change, which focus them on the future, whereas people with a strong assessment orientation would refrain from self-forgiveness due to their evaluative tendencies which focus them on the past. These hypotheses were supported by the results in four studies that tested the relation between regulatory modes and self-forgiveness by measuring (Studies 1, 3 and 4) and manipulating (Study 2) regulatory-mode-orientations. Finally, in Study 4 we examined more closely our hypothesis that the relation between self-forgiveness and regulatory modes is mediated by past and future temporal foci. The implications of the results for regulatory mode theory are also discussed.
本研究探讨了调节定向是否会影响自我宽恕。我们预计，具有强烈的动能力向的人更倾向于自我宽恕，因为他们倾向于运动和变化，这使他们关注未来，而具有强烈的评价倾向的人则会因为他们的评价倾向而避免自我宽恕，因为这种倾向使他们关注过去。这一假设在四项研究中得到了支持，这些研究通过测量（研究 1、3 和 4）和操纵（研究 2）调节模式定向来检验调节模式和自我宽恕之间的关系。最后，在研究 4 中，我们更仔细地检验了我们的假设，即自我宽恕和调节模式之间的关系是由过去和未来的时间焦点来调节的。这些结果对调节模式理论的意义也进行了讨论。
