Aversive Interpersonal Events, Psychopathology, and Health

宽恕与更好的心理、情感和生理功能有关，而不宽恕则与精神疾病和生理功能受损的风险增加有关。该申请提出了一项为期五年的研究计划，旨在调查宽恕对降低精神病风险、改善心理健康、减少与酒精相关的问题、减少愤怒和与压力相关的生理唤醒以及改善认知表现的潜在益处。为了鼓励最近人际关系违规行为的受害者宽恕，我们将 开发和评估以实验室为基础的“利益发现”归纳。在遭遇逆境后寻找利益是很常见的，它会培养人们在遭遇创伤性生活事件后的韧性。因此，寻找利益可以帮助人们原谅，从而克服不原谅带来的心理、情感、生理和认知方面的负面影响。 此外，拟议的项目延续了以前的努力，即利用最近的统计进展，将宽恕作为一种变革进程加以探讨。提出的项目有五个具体目标：(1)通过实验检验利益发现和宽恕之间的联系；(2)根据公平理论确定变量，以调节利益发现对宽恕的影响；(3)使用成长混合模型更好地理解宽恕作为一个变化过程；(4)确定宽恕是否在精神病理学和心理健康、饮酒、情感、生理和认知表现等领域降低负面结果的风险；以及(5)确定宽恕是否中介利益发现之间的关系 归纳和上文所列的结果。此外，这项研究还将开发一种技术--思考和写作与一个人遭受的越轨行为相关的可能的个人利益--这可能在未来的临床应用中用于减轻精神病理学的负担，减少与饮酒、愤怒、与压力相关的生理唤醒和认知表现相关的问题。

Forgiveness has been linked to better psychological, emotional, and physiological functioning, whereas the failure to forgive has been linked to increased risk for psychopathology and impairments to physiological functioning. This application proposes a five-year program of research to investigate the potentially beneficial effects of forgiveness for reducing risk for psychopathology, improving psychological well-being, reducing alcohol-related problems, reducing anger and stress-related physiological arousal, and improving cognitive performance. To encourage forgiveness among recent victims of interpersonal transgressions, we will develop and evaluate a laboratory-based "benefit-finding" induction. Benefit-finding after adversity is very common and fosters resilience after traumatic life events. Thus, benefit-finding may help people forgive and thereby overcome the negative psychological, emotional, physiological, and cognitive effects of not forgiving. Also, the proposed project extends previous efforts to explore forgiveness as a change process using recent statistical advances. The proposed project has five specific aims: (1) to examine the link between benefit-finding and forgiveness experimentally; (2) to identify variables based on Equity Theory that moderate the effect of benefit-finding on forgiveness; (3) to better understand forgiveness as a change process using growth mixture modeling; (4) To determine whether forgiveness reduces risk for negative outcomes in the domains of psychopathology and psychological well-being; alcohol use; emotion, physiology; and cognitive performance; and (5) to determine whether forgiveness mediates the relationship between a benefit-finding induction and the outcomes listed above. In addition, the research will develop a technique?thinking and writing about possible personal benefits associated with a transgression one has suffered?that may have future clinical applications for reducing the burden of psychopathology and for reducing problems related to alcohol use, anger, stress-related physiological arousal, and cognitive performance.