Dispositional Proneness To Forgiveness As A Precur-Sor Of Overcoming Helplessness

7th ERAZ Conference Proceedings (part of ERAZ conference collection)

“…Helplessness is one of the commonalities in life, starting from infancy and up to our indispensable awareness which is death, and it is the most unbearable one among all emotions that people experience (Hoffer & Buie, 2016). Up to now, there is no consensus on helplessness, which is defined as feeling, emotion, state of mind, situation and syndrome as a sign of behavioral disorder and a certain personal trait, in terms of psychological conceptualization (Nosenko & Sokur, 2016). The hopelessness that appears in business and social life (Üstün, 2001) is being able not to defend an individual itself, able to do nothing to help itself, being powerful or weak (Arieli & Ataria, 2018), the emotion, thought and behaviors' complexity syndrome (Carlson & Blackwell, 1978).…”