TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Forgiveness and the Need to Belong
JO  - Personality and social psychology bulletin
A1  - Barnes, Collin D.
A1  - Carvallo, Mauricio
A1  - Brown, Ryan P.
A1  - Osterman, Lindsey
SP  - 1148
EP  - 1160
VL  - 36
IS  - 9
N2  - People who experience a strong need to belong might be particularly inclined to forgive wrongdoings to preserve social bonds. Three studies that utilized different methods and measures of forgiveness consistently demonstrated this is not the case. The authors found that individuals high in the need to belong report practicing forgiveness with less frequency and value it no more than those low in the need to belong (Study 1). In Study 2, they found that satisfying the need to belong led participants to express greater willingness to forgive hypothetical offenses compared to participants in a control group. Finally, in Study 3, the authors linked the need to belong to forgiveness of specific transgressions and found that this negative relationship was mediated by offense-related anger and perceptions of offense severity. These findings suggest that needing to belong paradoxically interferes with forgiveness, even though forgiving could promote the satisfaction of belongingness needs following transgressions.<p />
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SN  - 0146-1672
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167210378852
ID  - ref1
ER  -