From Psychological Harmony To Interpersonal Harmony:the Individual And Interpersonal Effects Of Forgiveness

China is an ancient civilization with a long history.Harmony is the dream of the Chinese for thousands of years,The Fourth Plenary Session of the 16 th Central Committee of the Party put forward the concept of "harmonious society" for the first time.A harmonious society is the ideal goal for which the country and people continue to struggle,and the study of its realization method has very important practical significance.Society is composed of individuals,and the individual’s own psychological harmony and interpersonal harmony play a vital role in the realization of the goal of a harmonious society.A very important task for building a harmonious society is to deal with all kinds of ubiquitous contradictions and conflicts.Forgiveness is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation,and it is also a basic guideline for people to behave.It has unique value in resolving conflicts and maintaining harmony.Researching the relationship between forgiveness and harmony,and understanding the wisdom of ancestors in life,there is far-reaching significance for resolving certain spiritual and social crises and building a harmonious society.This research explores the individual and interpersonal(social)effects of "forgiveness" on harmony and the mediating role of emotion from three levels:individual psychological harmony,interpersonal harmony between the parties and the third-party pan-interpersonal harmony.The entire study consists of three sub-studies and the specific research constructs and research results are as follows:From the perspective of the forgiver,research 1 adopts the questionnaire method to survey 553 college students,to explore the relationship between forgiveness and psychological harmony,as well as the mediating role of emotions(positive and negative emotion).The research focused on the effect of forgiveness at the individual level,and the following conclusions were drawn:(1)The forgiveness and psychological harmony of college students are at the upper-middle level;in psychological harmony,the main effect of gender is significant,and the level of psychological harmony of girls is significantly higher than that of boys.For forgiveness,the main effects of gender and grade are not significant.(2)Forgiveness is significantly positively correlated with psychological harmony and positive emotions;forgiveness is significantly negatively correlated with negative emotions;positive emotion is significantly positively correlated with psychological harmony;negative emotion is significantly negatively correlated with psychological harmony.(3)Positive emotion plays a mediating role in the relationship between forgiveness and psychological harmony,who with higher levels of forgiveness can experience more positive emotion to promote their psychological harmony;Negative emotions also plays a mediating role in the relationship between forgiveness and psychological harmony,who with lower levels of forgiveness experience more negative emotion and thus reduce their level of psychological harmony.From the perspective of the forgiven person,research 2 adopts experimental methods that participants included 128 college students to explore the influence of forgiveness on interpersonal harmony and the mediating effect of emotions(gratitude,guilt,hostility and anger)in the story.The focus of the research is to explore the effects of forgiveness in the interpersonal relationship of both parties,and it turns out that the forgiveness group has more interpersonal trust,cooperative behavior,and helping behavior toward the other party than the non-forgiveness group,that is a higher level of interpersonal harmony between the parties,emotions(gratitude,guilt,hostility,and anger)are all play a mediating role in the relationship between forgiveness and harmony.From the perspective of the forgiven person,research 3 adopts an experimental method that participants included 139 college students to explore the influence of forgiveness on the interpersonal harmony between the forgiven individual and the third party,and the mediating effect of emotions(gratefulness,guilt,hostility,and anger)in the story.It turns out that the forgiveness group has more interpersonal trust,cooperative behavior,and helping behavior toward the third party than the nonforgiveness group,that is a higher level of interpersonal harmony with the third party,and gratitude plays a significant role in the mediation,the mediating effects of guilt,hostility,and anger are not significant.