TY  - JOUR
T1  - MEDIATION EFFECT OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN TRAIT FORGIVENESS AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
AU  - Yang, Xiaofeng
AU  - Li, Wei
PY  - 2019
DA  - September
DO  - 10.18769/ijasos.591424
JF  - IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences
JO  - IJASOS
PB  - OCERINT International Organization Center of Academic Research
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2411-183X
SP  - 702
EP  - 708
VL  - 5
IS  - 14
LA  - en
AB  - Interest in forgiveness has explored in recentyears as researchers and clinicians began to recognize its value formaintaining emotional well-being, physical health, and healthy intimaterelationships. Individuals who tend to adopt forgiving rather than revengefulstrategies generally have less aggressive behaviours and better interpersonalrelationships with others. We hypothesized that an individual’s interpersonalrelationship could be predicted by his/her trait forgiveness and aggressivebehaviour. We tested this hypothesis using a survey, in which five hundred andthirty-eight college students (195 males and 343 females) from fiveuniversities in China were investigated with Trait Forgiveness Scale (TFS),Interpersonal Disturbance Scale (IDS), Social-support Scale (SS) and AggressionQuestionnaire (AQ). Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were adoptedto analyse the data of survey in SPSS 21. Results indicated that (a)significant gender differences existed in trait forgiveness, that is, traitforgiveness of female students was significantly higher than that of malestudents (t = -2.252, p< 0.05); (b) trait forgivenesspositively correlated with social support (r = 0.27，p< 0.001), and negatively correlated with interpersonal disturbance (r = -0.35，p< 0.001) and aggressive behaviours (r = -0.40，p< 0.001); (c) trait forgiveness was the bestpredictor of interpersonal relationship; (d) aggressive behaviour served as apartial mediator variable between trait forgiveness and interpersonal relationship.These results imply that although trait forgiveness and aggressive behaviourboth affect an individual’s interpersonal relationship, the affecting pathswere different. Trait forgiveness may directly affect interpersonalrelationship, or indirectly through aggressive behaviour.
KW  - trait forgiveness
KW  - interpersonal relationship
KW  - aggresive behavior
KW  - mediation effect
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