On Positive Psychological Outcomes: What Helps Groups With a History of Conflict to Forgive and Reconcile With Each Other?

Noor, N, Brown, R, Gonzalez, R, Manzi, J and Lewis, Christopher A (2008) On Positive Psychological Outcomes: What Helps Groups With a History of Conflict to Forgive and Reconcile With Each Other?

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

Three studies examined the roles of traditional and novel social psychological variables involved in intergroup forgiveness. Study 1 (N = 480) revealed that among the pro-Pinochet and the anti-Pinochet groups in Chile, forgiveness was predicted by ingroup identity (negatively), common ingroup identity (positively), empathy and trust (positively), and competitive victimhood (the subjective sense of having suffered more than the outgroup, negatively). Political ideology (Right vs. Left) moderated the relationship between empathy and forgiveness, trust and forgiveness, and between the latter and competitive victimhood. Study 2 (N = 309), set in the Northern Irish conflict between Protestants and Catholics, provided a replication and extension of Study 1. Finally, Study 3 (N = 155/108) examined the longitudinal relationship between forgiveness and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, revealing that forgiveness predicted reconciliation intentions. The reverse direction of this relationship was also marginally significant. Results are discussed in terms of their theoretical and practical implications.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Metadata only available from this repository. This article was published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin by Sage in 2008. The published article is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167208315555Contact the author via email at - ca.lewis@glyndwr.ac.uk for information about this article.
Keywords:	intergroup forgiveness, reconciliation, competitive, victimhood, identity, emotions, Chile, Norhtern Ireland
Divisions:	?? GlyndwrUniversity ??
Depositing User:	ULCC Admin
Date Deposited:	05 Oct 2011 09:14
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2017 20:06
URI:	https://glyndwr.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/286

Actions (login required)

Edit Item