Perceived goal instrumentality is associated with forgiveness: A test of the valuable relationships hypothesis
Perceived goal instrumentality is associated with forgiveness: A test of the valuable relationships hypothesis
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感知目标工具性与宽恕相关：对有价值关系假设的检验
DOI：
10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.09.003
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Ohtsubo Yohsuke
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作者：
Smith Adam;McCauley Thomas G.;Yagi Ayano;Yamaura Kazuho;Shimizu Hiroshi;McCullough Michael E.;Ohtsubo Yohsuke
三项自传体研究测试了宽恕的有价值的关系假设。尽管之前的研究表明关系价值可以预测人际宽恕，但关系价值的衡量可能与对与违规者关系的情感评估相混淆，这可能导致标准污染问题。因此，我们评估了违规者与目标相关的工具（即违规者对于帮助受害者实现其在健身相关领域的目标有多大作用）。三项研究，一项涉及日本学生样本（研究 1），第二项涉及日本社区样本（研究 2），第三项涉及美国社区样本（研究 3），一致表明，感知目标工具性以及从多种关系价值测量中估计的潜在关系价值变量与宽恕相关。此外，这种关联可以部分地通过日本和美国的感知目标工具与同理心之间的中间关联来解释。
Three autobiographical studies tested the valuable relationships hypothesis of forgiveness. Although previous studies revealed that relationship value predicts interpersonal forgiveness, the measure of relationship value may be conflated with affective assessments of the relationship with the transgressor, which might have caused a criterion contamination problem. Therefore, we assessed the goal-related instrumentality of the transgressor (i.e., how useful the transgressor is for helping the victim to achieve his/her goals in fitness-relevant domains). Three studies, one involving a Japanese student sample (Study 1), a second involving Japanese community sample (Study 2), and a third involving U.S. community sample (Study 3), convergently showed that perceived goal instrumentality, as well as a latent relationship value variable estimated from multiple measures of relationship value, are associated with forgiveness. Moreover, this association could be explained in part by the intermediate association of perceived goal instrumentality with empathy both in Japan and the U.S.