TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Alternative school student perceptions about forgiveness
JO  - Preventing school failure
A1  - Edgar-Smith, Susan
A1  - Palmer, Ruth Baugher
SP  - 259
EP  - 267
VL  - 61
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1045-988X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1045988X.2016.1272540
ID  - ref1
ER  -