Understanding gender differences in self-forgiveness: An Explanatory Study
Gyanesh Kumar Tiwari,Ruchi Pandey,Sujata Mudgal, Rakesh Pandey, Priyanka and Pramod Kumar Rai
ABSTRACT
Forgiveness is an adorable human virtue that is closely linked with many positive life outcomes of people. Self-forgiveness has been conceived as an ability to recognize one’s intrinsic worth that involves a restoration of self-respect. Self-forgiveness represents a readiness to throw away resentment and cultivate compassion, kindness and love toward oneself. Many antecedents have been suggested that are assumed to cause individual differences in self-forgiveness. The present study aims to underscore gender differences in self-forgiveness of the adults. The study employed an explanatory research design, a variant of Mixed Methods Design, to understand the causes behind gender differences in self-forgiveness. The study was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, 145 males age ranging 18 Years to 25 Years (M = 22.09, SD = 1.66) and 131 females age spanning from 19 Years to 26 Years (M = 21.91, SD = 1.73) served as the participants whose self-forgiveness was measured with the help of The Self-forgiveness Scale (Mudgal, & Tiwari, 2017). In the second phase, 31 participants involving 15 males (M = 22.15, SD = 1.21) and 16 females (M = 22.23, SD = 1.36) were selected who participated in a semi-structured interview. The findings of the first phase of the study showed that the females achieved significantly higher mean scores on realization and reparation subscale and overall self-forgiveness as compared to their male counterparts. Conversely, no gender differences were observed on the guilt and attribution subscales of self-forgiveness. Age showed significant positive correlation with the overall self-forgiveness of the males while a non-significant negative correlation was recorded between the age and the overall self-forgiveness of the females. Irrespective of gender, a non-significant positive correlation was observed between these measures. Gender accounted for significant variance in the scores of the realization and reparation, and overall self-forgiveness of the participants. The findings of the study exhibited that the males and females carry different conceptualizations of remorse, acceptance of wrongdoing, repairing of relationship with self and others, ability to minimize negative emotions towards self, monitoring of others’ positive behaviours and acknowledgements of valued and close relationships that may be assumed to working behind their dissimilar performance on the sub-scale of realization and reparation and overall self-forgiveness. Moreover, the males and females also differed in their conceptualizations of transgression, methods of realization and perceived benefits of self-forgiveness.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334726009_Understanding_gender_differences_in_self-forgiveness_An_Explanatory_Study
Gyanesh Kumar Tiwari,Ruchi Pandey,Sujata Mudgal, Rakesh Pandey, Priyanka and Pramod Kumar Rai
ABSTRACT
Forgiveness is an adorable human virtue that is closely linked with many positive life outcomes of people. Self-forgiveness has been conceived as an ability to recognize one’s intrinsic worth that involves a restoration of self-respect. Self-forgiveness represents a readiness to throw away resentment and cultivate compassion, kindness and love toward oneself. Many antecedents have been suggested that are assumed to cause individual differences in self-forgiveness. The present study aims to underscore gender differences in self-forgiveness of the adults. The study employed an explanatory research design, a variant of Mixed Methods Design, to understand the causes behind gender differences in self-forgiveness. The study was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, 145 males age ranging 18 Years to 25 Years (M = 22.09, SD = 1.66) and 131 females age spanning from 19 Years to 26 Years (M = 21.91, SD = 1.73) served as the participants whose self-forgiveness was measured with the help of The Self-forgiveness Scale (Mudgal, & Tiwari, 2017). In the second phase, 31 participants involving 15 males (M = 22.15, SD = 1.21) and 16 females (M = 22.23, SD = 1.36) were selected who participated in a semi-structured interview. The findings of the first phase of the study showed that the females achieved significantly higher mean scores on realization and reparation subscale and overall self-forgiveness as compared to their male counterparts. Conversely, no gender differences were observed on the guilt and attribution subscales of self-forgiveness. Age showed significant positive correlation with the overall self-forgiveness of the males while a non-significant negative correlation was recorded between the age and the overall self-forgiveness of the females. Irrespective of gender, a non-significant positive correlation was observed between these measures. Gender accounted for significant variance in the scores of the realization and reparation, and overall self-forgiveness of the participants. The findings of the study exhibited that the males and females carry different conceptualizations of remorse, acceptance of wrongdoing, repairing of relationship with self and others, ability to minimize negative emotions towards self, monitoring of others’ positive behaviours and acknowledgements of valued and close relationships that may be assumed to working behind their dissimilar performance on the sub-scale of realization and reparation and overall self-forgiveness. Moreover, the males and females also differed in their conceptualizations of transgression, methods of realization and perceived benefits of self-forgiveness.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334726009_Understanding_gender_differences_in_self-forgiveness_An_Explanatory_Study
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