Department of Psychology, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China.
Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
J Clin Psychol. 2019 Oct;75(10):1896-1915. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22825. Epub 2019 Jul 26.
Forgiveness includes processes that involve a decision to stop bitterness and thoughts of revenge (i.e., decisional forgiveness), which further motivates the forgiver towards the restoration of positive emotions (i.e., emotional forgiveness). Using stress and coping framework, this study investigated intrapersonal and interpersonal facilitators of decisional and emotional forgiveness in a Chinese marital context.
Participants were 154 respondents who had experienced or were experiencing spousal infidelity.
Solidarity-oriented personality and perceived partner's reconciliation motivation facilitated benign attributions and empathy, then facilitated higher levels of decisional forgiveness, which promoted emotional forgiveness. Strength of marital bond before the infidelity directly predicted higher levels of emotional forgiveness.
Our findings provide evidence for the differentiated decisional and emotional forgiveness processes after spousal infidelity and delineate different coping mechanism that triggers them, thus lending culturally appropriate evidence for clinicians who work with clients facing spousal infidelity.
宽恕包括涉及决定停止痛苦和复仇念头的过程（即决策宽恕），这进一步促使宽恕者恢复积极的情绪（即情感宽恕）。本研究利用压力和应对框架，在中国婚姻背景下调查了人际间促进决策和情感宽恕的因素。
参与者是 154 名经历或正在经历配偶出轨的受访者。
以团结为导向的人格和感知到的伴侣的和解动机促进了良性归因和同理心，进而促进了更高水平的决策宽恕，从而促进了情感宽恕。出轨前婚姻关系的牢固程度直接预测了更高水平的情感宽恕。
我们的研究结果为配偶出轨后的决策和情感宽恕过程提供了证据，并描述了触发这些过程的不同应对机制，从而为治疗师提供了具有文化适宜性的证据，以帮助面临配偶出轨的客户。
