Motivational Factors, Self-Compassion and Rumination in relation to Forgiving Behaviour

Abstract

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was aimed to understand how different Motivational Factors like Revenge and Avoidance motivation along with Self-compassion and Rumination will have an effect on Forgiving Behaviour. The data was collected from 150 participants (73 females and 77 males) of age range of 18-40 years. The questionnaires used were- The Heartland Forgiveness Scale (Laura Y. Thompson, C.R. Synder and Lesa Hoffman), Transgression- Related Interpersonal Motivations-12 (McCullough, M. E, 2013), Self-compassion Scale (Neff, 2003), and Rumination Response Scale (Nolen-Hoeksema, 2003). Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s Correlation, Regression Analysis, Anova and Independent Sample t-test was used for analyses of the data. The findings suggest a significant positive link between Self-compassion and Forgiveness (r= .316, p<0.01) and also a significant negative correlation between Rumination and forgiveness (r= -.246, p<0.01). The study also found females to be more forgiving than male participants. However, there was no evidence of a link found between Motivational factors- avoidance and revenge motivation with forgiveness. Furthermore, regression analysis also revealed that 9.4% variance in forgiveness can be explained by predictor variable that is Self- compassion.