Religion, Forgiveness, Hostility and Health: A Structural Equation Analysis

Lutjen, Laura J.; Silton, Nava R.; Flannelly, Kevin J.

doi:10.1007/s10943-011-9511-7

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“…Regarding forgiveness, overwhelming evidence from studies typically conducted in the United States suggests that greater forgiveness corresponds with lower aggression (e.g., Berry, Worthington, O'Connor, Parrott, & Wade, 2005;Eaton & Struthers, 2006;Lutjen, Silton, & Flannelly, 2012;Webb, Dula, & Brewer, 2012). Most notable is a study of 556 Japanese high school juniors and seniors that found that greater forgiveness corresponded with less physical and relational aggression (Ishikawa & Hamaguchi, 2007).…”

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Religiousness and aggression in adolescents: The mediating roles of self‐control and compassion

Shepperd

Miller

Smith

2015

Aggressive Behavior

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Although people have used religion to justify aggression, evidence suggests that greater religiousness corresponds with less aggression. We explored two explanations for the religion-aggression link. First, most major religions teach self-control (e.g., delaying gratification, resisting temptation), which diminishes aggression. Second, most major religions emphasize compassionate beliefs and behavior (i.e., perspective taking, forgiveness, a broader love of humanity) that are incompatible with aggression. We tested whether self-control and compassion mediated the relationship between religion and aggression (direct and indirect) in a longitudinal study of 1,040 adolescents in the United States. Structural equation analyses revealed that self-control and compassion together completely mediated the religion-aggression relationship for both types of aggression.

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Section: Mechanisms Of Influencementioning

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Religiousness and aggression in adolescents: The mediating roles of self‐control and compassion

Shepperd

Miller

Smith

2015

Aggressive Behavior

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“…Their R/S development and sexual development play important roles in self‐concept and identity formation. Indeed, positive mental and physical health correlate positively with R/S beliefs and sexual identity openness (Lutjen, Silton, & Flannelly, ; Smith, McCullough, & Poll, ; Vaughan & Waehler, ). As individuals come to terms with incongruent R/S and sexual identities, R/S questions can arise (Rodriguez & Ouellette, ; Sherry et al, ).…”

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Loss of Religious or Spiritual Identities Among the LGBT Population

Wood

Conley

2014

Counseling and Values

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals are at risk of having negative experiences with religion because of mainstream religions' non-LGBT-affirming stance. Negative religious experiences can lead to religious or spiritual (R/S) struggles and loss of R/S identity to maintain sexual identity. The authors describe R/S abuse, R/S struggle, and how these can result in loss of R/S identity in LGBT individuals. They provide a case study and discuss counseling implications and areas for future research.Keywords: religious identity, sexual identity, LGBT, religious abuse, loss T he loss of religious or spiritual (R/S) identity can be a significant development in individuals' lives and can complicate their lives by eliciting emotions that range from relief to anger (Barra et al., 1993). Often when individuals experience pain, they turn to their R/S beliefs for comfort; however, if their R/S beliefs are a source of pain, their R/S identity can be in jeopardy. For many historically marginalized populations, relationships with mainstream religious institutions can be contentious.

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“…For S2, forgiveness is part of his formation and religious conviction, because it is a generalized concept for all the conflictive experiences, and in several studies, it is evidenced the relation between forgiveness and health and the important role that religion plays in it. 12,19 The difficulties that were mentioned, were also a result of violent circumstances that have characterized the recent Colombian history, that have promoted people's distrust towards the use of forgiveness and also the demonization that has been mediated by cultural aspects. [20][21][22][23][24] There is a lack of studies that evidence the application of forgiveness by homeless elderly men with different backgrounds who at the end of their lifes face this difficult situation.…”

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“…This experience has been analyzed in different studies, that point out, the association between forgiveness, spirituality and health. 8,12 …”

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How do Elderly Individuals Build up their Forgiveness Perception?: Histories from Three Homeless Men from Colombia

Gonzalez¹

2017

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ProcedureThe history of the three elderly individuals who are part of this research is affected by traumatic and challenging events that built up their concepts about forgiveness and revenge. S1, shares the case of the murder of his father and 4 brothers due to political violence. With this in mind, S1 considers that his decision was taking revenge, confessing the murder of those who killed his family members. The S2, was taken into a boarding school when he was 7 years old. He did not have siblings and mentions that he has always been alone. He passed from the boarding school to a religious career until he became a priest. S3 was given to an aunt when the mother abandoned his father due to physical abuse.Since the first interaction with the elderly individuals, they revealed the existence of sadness feelings abandonment and complete loneliness that has negatively affected their physical, psychological and social wellbeing. It is assumed that these effects were caused by the challenges they faced throughout their lives. Moreover, they are constantly discriminated for being homeless. It was evidenced a contradiction between the idea of forgiveness and its application. It was also identified the absence of forgiveness references from their family contexts due to the lack of affective interactions and absent relationships with their parents that limit the acquisition of forgiveness as a tool to solve conflicts, reconciliation and the recovering of social bonds.Nevertheless, apart from the interpersonal relations in nonfamiliar contexts it is developed an idea of forgiveness, as a tool capable of providing them psychological recovering and emotional balance. For S2, forgiveness is built up from his religious training. In this way it is seen as a tool to live in harmony. However for S2 and S3 the application of forgiveness has an ambivalent scheme, because even though they expressed they have forgiven, they blame those experiences, as the consequence for becoming homeless. Moreover, there were found emotional gaps, negative feelings and the absence of closure. These consequences would have been solved through forgiveness and it would have provided emotional tranquility that is necessary to face their current situation in a different way. Forgiveness would have also helped to execute the process of closure which is necessary in these cases.According to the classification that resulted from other case studies, developed by other authors 8-10 it was found in the S1 that the concept is merely intra-individual. It means, a unilateral scheme because it understands forgiveness as a tool that is used for himself. It is not expected a reciprocal acceptance, neither aiming to create and interaction with the person who generated the damage. However it is necessary to mention that inside the confession it was revealed and episodic forgiveness. He said: 'If someone does something wrong, I won't forgive him… I never forget that' S1. MOJ Gerontol AbstractForgiveness is an aspect that has been widely explored in religion art and re...

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Religion, Forgiveness, Hostility and Health: A Structural Equation Analysis

Cited by 46 publications

References 45 publications

Religiousness and aggression in adolescents: The mediating roles of self‐control and compassion

Religiousness and aggression in adolescents: The mediating roles of self‐control and compassion

Loss of Religious or Spiritual Identities Among the LGBT Population

How do Elderly Individuals Build up their Forgiveness Perception?: Histories from Three Homeless Men from Colombia

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