Does victim forgiveness relieve perpetrator guilt? Examining null effects with equivalence tests and Bayes factor
Does victim forgiveness relieve perpetrator guilt? Examining null effects with equivalence tests and Bayes factor
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受害者的宽恕是否可以减轻加害者的愧疚感？
DOI：
10.1007/s12144-021-01805-5
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.8
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M.
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作者：
Furukawa;Y.;Nakashima;K.;& Morinaga;M.
人们经常在人际关系中经历冲突。为了修复和恢复一段关系，犯罪者在经历负罪感后采取补偿行为，而受害者则试图传达他们的宽恕。虽然以前的许多研究都集中在宽恕者(即受害者)上，但很少有人调查被宽恕者(即犯罪者)的反应。我们通过两项研究调查了受害者宽恕是否减轻了犯罪者的负罪感。数据收集自日本本科生和专科生。在研究1中，我们操纵了受害者宽恕的存在，以调查宽恕对犯罪者内疚的影响。研究二考察了研究一的结果是否重复，以及宽恕对道德自我评价的影响。研究1和研究2表明，宽恕受害者并不能减轻犯罪者的罪恶感。此外，等价性检验和贝叶斯因子有力地支持了这些零结果。研究2表明，与受害者相比，犯罪者在获得宽恕时认为自己相对不道德。这些结果表明，单方面和解(即受害者先发制人的宽恕)不足以恢复作为犯罪者的关系，因为他们可能认为自己不值得受害者的宽恕。
People often experience conflicts in their interpersonal relationships. To repair and restore a relationship, the perpetrator engages in compensatory behaviour after experiencing feelings of guilt, while the victim attempts to communicate their forgiveness. Although many previous studies focused on the forgiver (i.e., the victim), few have investigated the responses of the forgiven (i.e., the perpetrator). We investigated whether victim forgiveness relieved perpetrator guilt through two studies. Data were collected from Japanese undergraduate and junior college students. In Study 1, we manipulated the presence of victim forgiveness to investigate the effects of forgiveness on perpetrator guilt. Study 2 investigated whether the result of Study 1 was replicated and the effect of forgiveness on moral self-evaluation. Studies 1 and 2 showed that victim forgiveness did not relieve perpetrator guilt. In addition, equivalence testing and Bayes factor strongly supported these null results. Study 2 showed that perpetrators evaluated themselves as relatively immoral compared to their victims when receiving forgiveness. These results suggest that a unilateral approach toward reconciliation (i.e. the victim’s pre-emptive forgiveness) is inadequate for restoring the relationship as the perpetrator because they may believe themselves undeserving of forgiveness from the victim.