Department of Psychology, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
Department of Psychology, The University of Economics and Human Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Aging Ment Health. 2024 Jun;28(6):917-926. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2023.2285915. Epub 2023 Nov 22.
The goal of the present study was to investigate whether forgiveness played a mediating role in the relationships between gerotranscendence and wisdom among people in late adulthood. The study included 416 participants aged 60 to 75 years. The following measures were used: the Gerotranscendence Scale Type 2 (GST2), the Heartland Forgiveness Scale and the Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (SAWS). To verify the hypothesis, a longitudinal three-wave field study was conducted. The results suggest that an increase in gerotranscendence is associated with an increase in forgiveness and wisdom. In addition, greater willingness to forgive co-occurs with higher levels of wisdom. Moreover, dispositional forgiveness mediates the relationship between gerotranscendence and wisdom - a higher gerotranscendence leads to a higher wisdom through an increase in forgiveness. The results of our research add to the knowledge of the mechanism of the relationship between gerotranscendence and wisdom and support the thesis that late adulthood presents individuals with new challenges and opportunities for creative personal development.
本研究旨在探讨宽恕是否在老年人的超越自我和智慧之间的关系中起中介作用。研究纳入了 416 名年龄在 60 至 75 岁的参与者。采用的测量工具包括超越自我量表第二版（GST2）、博爱宽恕量表和自我评估智慧量表（SAWS）。为验证假设，进行了一项纵向三波现场研究。结果表明，超越自我的增加与宽恕和智慧的增加有关。此外，更大的宽恕意愿与更高的智慧水平同时出现。此外，性格宽恕中介了超越自我和智慧之间的关系——通过增加宽恕，更高的超越自我导致更高的智慧。我们的研究结果增加了超越自我和智慧之间关系的机制的知识，并支持这样一种论点，即成年晚期为个人提供了新的挑战和创造性个人发展的机会。
