Paths to interpersonal forgiveness: The roles of personality, disposition to forgive and contextual factors in predicting forgiveness following a specific offence

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 337-348

  Koutsos, Peggy ^a   Wertheim, Eleanor H ^a   Kornblum, Jenny ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agreeableness; Apology; Forgive; Intent; Neuroticism; Offence; Relationship; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148957920     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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