The capacity to forgive from a psychological perspective

• Autor: Casullo, María Martina
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2005
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/979
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/psicologia/article/view/979
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Forgiveness; psychological assessment; general population; Perdón; evaluación psicológica; población general

The capacity to forgive from a psychological perspective.A scale developed to assess the capacity to forgive, administered to 800 adults (50% males and 50% females) from the general population of the city of Buenos Aires and its suburban area (N: 8(0), is presented. Preliminary research data related to gender, age and religiosity are analyzed, as well as different psychological and philosophical conceptions. We found that women show a higher capacity to forgive than men and that forgiveness is associated to the presence of beliefs about it. According to our results, 88% of men and 95% of women consider that it is important to be able to forgive.