THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN TRAIT FORGIVENESS AND MENTAL HEALTH: THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF RUMINATION

Wei Lİ; Xiaofeng YANG

doi:https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.592297

Makale detayları

THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN TRAIT FORGIVENESS AND MENTAL HEALTH: THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF RUMINATION

Yazarlar:

Wei Lİ | Xiaofeng YANG

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences 2019 Vol.5 Issue 14, pp.717-723

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000716710

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.592297

Özet:

 


Trait forgiveness is a
tendency to forgive others across a wide range of interpersonal circumstances. Though
there is growing evidence to suggest that failure to forgive is closely related
to indicators of poor mental health as depression, anxiety and anger, less
attention has been paid to the relationship between trait forgiveness and
mental health. In order to study the mechanism of the relationship of these
two variables, we introduce rumination as a third variable, which has been
proved to correlate negatively with state forgiveness and positively with
mental health problems. We hypothesized that an individual’s mental health
could be predicted by his/her trait forgiveness and rumination. We tested this
hypothesis using a survey, in which five hundred and thirty-seven college
students (175 males and 362 females) from five universities in China were
investigated with Trait Forgiveness Scale (TFS), Ruminative Response Scale
(RRS), Centre for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D), Self-Rating
Anxiety Scale (SAS) and Trait Anger Scale (TAS). Descriptive statistics and
inferential statistics were adopted to analyse the data of survey with SPSS 21.
Results indicate that (a) significant gender difference exists in trait
forgiveness, that is, trait forgiveness of female students is significantly
higher than that of male students (t
= -2.06, p< 0.05); (b) students in
Low Forgiveness Group (the Lower 27%) have higher scores of depression, anxiety
and anger than those in High Forgiveness Group (the Upper 27%)(t = -5.86, -6.07 and -7.48，respectively, ps < 0.001);
(c) trait forgiveness negatively correlates with rumination (r = -0.21, p< 0.001), depression (r
= -0.30, p< 0.001), anxiety (r = -0.31, p< 0.001) and anger (r
= -0.34, p< 0.001), while
rumination positively correlates with depression (r = 0.61, p< 0.001),
anxiety (r = 0.55, p< 0.001) and anger (r = 0.36, p< 0.001); (d) among the predictive variables, trait forgiveness
is the best one, which accounts for 8.7%，9.5% and 11.6%
of the variation in depression, anxiety and anger; (e) rumination serves as a
partial mediator variable between trait forgiveness and mental health. These
results imply that although trait forgiveness and rumination both affect mental
health, the affecting paths were different. Trait forgiveness may affect mental
health directly, or indirectly through rumination.

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Makale detayları

THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN TRAIT FORGIVENESS AND MENTAL HEALTH: THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF RUMINATION

Yazarlar: Wei Lİ | Xiaofeng YANG

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi: IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences 2019 Vol.5 Issue 14, pp.717-723

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 9/2019

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000716710

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.592297

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Wei Lİ | Xiaofeng YANG

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences 2019 Vol.5 Issue 14, pp.717-723

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000716710

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.592297