@article{ref1,
title="Alternative school student perceptions about forgiveness",
journal="Preventing school failure",
year="2017",
author="Edgar-Smith, Susan and Palmer, Ruth Baugher",
volume="61",
number="4",
pages="259-267",
abstract="The investigative setting for this study was an alternative educational program that serves at-risk middle and secondary school students. The study evaluated students' conceptual understandings of forgiveness, their exercise of forgiveness in the face of perceived school-related transgressions, as well as the relationship between the two variables and student mental health and well-being. Overall, the students' cognitive grasp of forgiveness was found to be less sophisticated than was demonstrated by a similar sample of adults, indicating that the students, as a group of externalizing youth, struggled to use forgiveness to resolve relational conflicts. Specific factors that may foster forgiveness in habitually aggressive youth are presented along with recommendations for interventions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1045-988X",
doi="10.1080/1045988X.2016.1272540",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1045988X.2016.1272540"
}