KİŞİLER ARASI İLİŞKİLERDE BAĞIŞLAMA ÜZERİNE BİR GÖZDEN GEÇİRME
A REVIEW ON INTERPERSONAL FORGIVENESS

Summary/Abstract: Although almost everyone has some covert notions about it, attraction of forgiveness as an academic issue was limited with theology and philosophy for many years. In recent years social psychologists and clinical psychologists started to show interest both in self forgiveness and forgiving others. Regardless of the fact that there is presently no consensus for a psychological definition of forgiveness in the research literature, agreement has emerged that forgiveness is a process consisting of giving up reactions of anger and vengeance after experiencing an interpersonal harm. The purpose of this article is to review the definitions and models of forgiveness and giving information about the empirical research findings in Turkey.

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