The Empirical Study On Forgiveness Mind And Its Influencing Factors Of The College Students

Forgiveness can be divided into two aspects: forgiveness of others and forgiveness of self. Forgiveness of others is a psychological process of stopping adopting a hostile attitude towards offenders and well dealing with offenders; Forgiveness of self is a psychological process that people forgive their own mistakes and guilt from hating to concerning themselves.Forgiveness of others is helpful to do prosocial behavior and decrease aggressive behaviors, to improve and recover cracked interpersonal relationship, to set up and maintain fair and harmonious social order. Forgiveness of self can make individuals decrease anger, lighten pain, break away from fear, and also let individuals increase hope, improve self-esteem and keep mild mood.College students took part in this research as participants, with the method of questionnaire investigation, this research preliminarily explore the psychological characters and it's influencing factors of forgiveness of college students by Big Five Personality Scale, Empathy Questionnaire, Negative Rumination Scale and Hearland Forgiveness Scale. The main results of this research are as following:(1) Empathy level of college students decreased with grades as a whole, empathy level of schoolgirls is higher than that of schoolboys; There is no significant difference between different genders and among different grades of their rumination tendency; There is no remarkable difference between different genders and among different grades of their tendency of forgiveness of others and forgiveness of self. But the tendency of forgiveness of others increased with the grades, the tendency of forgiveness of self decreased with grades.(2) Forgiveness of others and forgiveness of self have significant correlation with Big Five Personality, among of those, dimensions of agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion have positive forecasting effect on forgiveness of others and self, but neuroticism has negative effect on forgiveness of others and self.(3) Empathy has significantly positive forecasting effect on forgiveness of others but negative effect on forgiveness of self; Empathy mediate the relationship between agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness and forgiveness of others, empathy also mediate the relationship between openness and forgiveness of self.(4) Rumination have negative forecasting effect on forgiveness of others and forgiveness of self, the effects of most of dimensions of Big Five Personality except openness on forgiveness of others and self were mediated by rumination tendency.