Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, South Australia, Australia.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2021 Apr;47(4):607-626. doi: 10.1177/0146167220937551. Epub 2020 Jul 16.
Most psychological research has investigated victims' forgiveness and offenders' self-forgiveness separately, ignoring interactive and dynamic processes between them. We suggest that both parties are interdependent in their attempts to revalidate the values violated by the wrongdoing. In the present study, both partners of close relationships dyads (including 164 complete couples) were surveyed over three time-points following the report of a wrongdoing by one of the partners. Latent growth modeling showed that victims' forgiveness was associated with growth in their perception of a value consensus with the offender. Victims' value consensus perception was associated with growth in offenders' perception of value consensus and engagement in genuine self-forgiveness (working through). However, directly, forgiveness was associated with decline in offenders' genuine self-forgiveness, while offenders' self-punitiveness was associated with decline in victims' forgiveness. The findings highlight the regulatory function of victim forgiveness and the pivotal role of restoring value consensus in interactive moral repair.
大多数心理学研究分别调查了受害者的宽恕和冒犯者的自我宽恕，忽略了它们之间的相互作用和动态过程。我们认为，双方在试图重新验证错误行为所侵犯的价值观时是相互依存的。在本研究中，亲密关系对的双方（包括 164 对完整的伴侣）在其中一方报告不当行为后的三个时间点接受了调查。潜在增长模型显示，受害者的宽恕与其对与冒犯者的价值共识的感知增长有关。受害者对价值共识的感知与冒犯者对价值共识的感知增长以及真诚的自我宽恕（解决问题）有关。然而，直接地，宽恕与冒犯者真诚的自我宽恕的下降有关，而冒犯者的自我惩罚与受害者宽恕的下降有关。这些发现强调了受害者宽恕的调节作用和在互动道德修复中恢复价值共识的关键作用。
