A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Forgiveness and its determinants depending on the interpersonal context of hurt




AuthorsPeets K, Hodges EVE, Salmivalli C

PublisherACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE

Publication year2013

JournalJournal of Experimental Child Psychology

Journal name in sourceJOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

Journal acronymJ EXP CHILD PSYCHOL

Number in series1

Volume114

Issue1

First page 131

Last page145

Number of pages15

ISSN0022-0965

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.05.009


Abstract
Children and adolescents encounter different hurtful experiences in school settings. How these events are processed (e.g., whether they think that the transgressor was hostile) is likely to depend on the relationship with the transgressor. In this study, we examined how adolescents (58 girls and 35 boys, mean age = 14.03 - years, SD = 0.60) dealt with the hurt caused by someone they liked or disliked. Our findings show that the hurt caused by a disliked transgressor is likely to lead to more negative cognitive (e.g., hostile attributions), affective (e.g., feelings of anger), and motivational (e.g., avoidance/revenge) outcomes than the hurt caused by a liked peer. In addition, we found that associations between cognitive processes and avoidance/revenge were mediated by feelings of anger, but only when the transgression occurred in the context of disliking. These results highlight the importance of studying how adolescents process hurtful experiences in different relational contexts. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.


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