This study examined the psychometric properties of two forgiveness scales using participants enrolled at a Midwestern Catholic university (N = 328). The Forgiveness Scale is a 15-item Likert-type scale designed to measure forgiveness toward an offender. The Forgiveness Likelihood Scale is a 10-item Likert-type scale designed to measure tendency to forgive across situations. Factor analyses revealed that the Forgiveness Scale contains two subscales (i.e., Absence of Negative, Presence of Positive) and the Forgiveness Likelihood Scale consists of a single factor. Both scales have adequate internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Both subscales of the Forgiveness Scale were significantly correlated in the expected direction with measures of forgiveness, religiousness, anger, hope, religious well-being, existential wellbeing, and social desirability. The Forgiveness Likelihood Scale was significantly correlated in the expected direction with measures of forgiveness, religiousness, trait anger, religious well-being, and social desirability.A major challenge with developing measures of forgiveness involves settling upon a satisfactory operational definition of forgiveness. Interestingly, social scientists have found it easier to agree upon what forgiveness is not

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