FORGIVENESS, HUMILITY, & GRATITUDE IN RECENTLY MARRIED COUPLES

宽恕、谦卑、

• 批准号: 6304939
• 负责人: JR L WORTHINGTON
• 金额: $ 0.06万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-12-01 至 2000-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6304939
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; blood chemistry; clinical research; emotions; human subject; interpersonal relations; marriage /marital status; saliva

An attempt to enrich marriage and prevent problems during the course of early marriage relationships through forgiveness and reconciliation. Forgiving is a motivational transformation that inclines people to inhibit relationship-destructive responses and to behave constructively toward someone who has behaved destructively toward them. A model of forgiveness has been described by M.McCullough and E. Worthington as based on the hypothesis that people forgive others to the extent that they experience empathy for them. Two studies investigated the empathy model of forgiveness. In study 1, the authors developed measures of empathy and forgiveness. The authors found evidence consistent with the hypothesis that a) the relationship between receiving an apology from and forgiving one's offender is a function of increased empathy for the offender and b) that forgiving is uniquely related to conciliatory behavior and avoidance behavior toward the offending partner. In study 2, the authors conducted an intervention in which empathy was manipulated to examine the empathy-forgiving relationship more closely. Results generally supported the conceptualization of forgiving as a motivational phenomenon and the empathy-forgiving link. The specific aims of this study are 1) to determine relationships among forgiveness, the variables that supposedly effect forgiveness, love and relationship variables, and physical and mental health variables. 2) to examine effectiveness of strong forgiveness induction based on the pyramid model of forgiveness (aimed at prevention of relationship difficulties) relative to a marital enrichment intervention (strategic hope-focused relationship enrichment) and to a repeated-retest control. 3) To examine psychological processes underlying responses to forgiveness-inducing interventions with newly married partners. Both interventions have been supported by previous research establishing them as effective and as resulting in no adverse effects on individuals or relationships. The proposed project is aimed at further developing the pyramid model of forgiveness into a stronger alternative to the models already described. In this study the focus will be on pyramid-model-based intervention for forgiveness in new marriages. This three year study of forgiveness will use ten couples in a pilot project to refine the forgiveness treatment and measure initial effects. In the main study, the primary investigator will randomly assign 210 couples to one of three interventions. The three groups are forgiveness, HOPE-focused marital enrichment, and repeated retests with minimal feedback ( control group). Couples will complete several questionnaires on marriage, forgiveness, concomitants of forgiveness, religion and physical and mental health. They will provide a salivary cortisol sample, and they will be videotaped discussing marital issues at meetings. Interventions will involve three three-hour meetings with a couple-consultant.

试图通过宽恕与和解来丰富婚姻并防止早婚关系过程中出现问题。宽恕是一种动机转变，它使人们倾向于抑制破坏关系的反应，并对那些对他们有破坏性行为的人采取建设性的行为。麦卡洛和E.沃辛顿基于这样一个假设：人们原谅他人的程度取决于他们对他人的同情。两项研究调查了宽恕的移情模型。 在研究1中，作者开发了同情和宽恕的措施。作者发现的证据与以下假设一致：a）接受道歉与原谅冒犯者之间的关系是对冒犯者的同情心增加的函数; B）原谅与对冒犯者的和解行为和回避行为有着独特的关系。在研究2中，作者进行了一项干预，其中共情被操纵，以更密切地检查共情-宽恕的关系。结果普遍支持宽恕作为一种动机现象和同情宽恕的联系的概念化。本研究的具体目的是：（1）确定宽恕、影响宽恕的变量、爱情和关系变量以及身心健康变量之间的关系。2)基于宽恕金字塔模型（旨在预防关系困难），研究强烈宽恕诱导相对于婚姻丰富干预（战略性以宽恕为重点的关系丰富）和重复重测对照的有效性。3)研究新婚伴侣对宽恕诱导干预的潜在心理过程。这两种干预措施都得到了先前研究的支持，这些研究证实它们是有效的，并且不会对个人或关系产生不利影响。 拟议的项目旨在进一步发展宽恕的金字塔模式，使之成为上述模式的更有力的替代方案。在这项研究中，重点将是在新的婚姻宽恕的干预，基于模型。这项为期三年的宽恕研究将在一个试点项目中使用十对夫妇来改进宽恕治疗并测量初步效果。在主要研究中，主要研究人员将随机分配210对夫妇接受三种干预措施之一。这三组分别是宽恕、以希望为中心的婚姻充实和以最小反馈重复测试（对照组）。夫妇将完成几份关于婚姻、宽恕、宽恕的伴随物、宗教和身心健康的问卷。他们将提供唾液皮质醇样本，他们将在会议上讨论婚姻问题的录像。干预措施将包括与一名夫妇顾问举行三次三小时的会议。