Forgiveness: A China-Western Europe comparison

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 147-158

  Paz, Regina ^a   Neto, Félix ^b   Mullet, Etienne ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d University of Macau ^*  (France)

Author keywords

China; Collectivism; Forgiveness; France; Individualism; Resentment

Indexed keywords

EID: 42549139730     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JRLP.142.2.147-158     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Azar, F., & Mullet, E. (2002). Forgiveness: Overall level and factor structure in a sample of Muslim and Christian-Lebanese. Peace and Conflict: A Peace Psychology Journal, 8, 17-30.
2. Bond, M. H. (Ed.). (1986). The psychology of the Chinese people. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
3. Brislin, R. W. (2000). Some methodological concerns in intercultural and cross-cultural research. In R. W. Brislin (Ed.), Understanding culture's influence on behavior (2nd ed., pp. 59-94). Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt.
4. Caprara, G. V. (1986). Indicators of aggression: The Dissipation- Rumination scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 17, 23-31.
5. Cheung, F. M., & Leung, K. (1998). Indigenous personality measures: Chinese examples. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 29, 233-248.
6. Chiaramello, S., Mesnil, M., Muñoz Sastre, M. T., & Mullet, E. (in press). Dispositional forgiveness among adolescents. European Journal of Developmental Psychology.
7. Enright, R. D., & Human Development Study Group. (1991). The moral development of forgiveness. In W. Kurtines & J. Gewirtz (Eds.), Handbook of moral behavior and development (Vol. 1, pp. 123-152). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
8. Fu, H., Watkins, D., & Hui, E. K. F. (2004). Personality correlates of the disposition towards interpersonal forgiveness: A Chinese perspective. International Journal of Psychology, 39, 305-316.
9. Fukuno, M., & Ohbuchi, K.-I. (1998). How effective are different accounts of harm-doing in softening victims' reactions? A scenario investigation of the effects of severity, relationship and culture. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 1, 167-178.
10. Ho, D. Y. F. (1993). Relational orientation in Asian social psychology. In U. Kim & J. W. Berry (Eds.), Indigenous psychology: Research and experience in cross-cultural context (pp. 240-259). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
11. Hofstede, G. (2001). Culture's consequences: Comparing values, behaviors, institutions, and organizations across nations (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
12. Hsu, F. L. K. (1985). The self in cross-cultural perspective. In A. J. Marsella, G. D. Vos, & F. L. K. Hsu (Eds.), Culture and self: Asian and Western perspectives (pp. 24-55). London: Tavistock.
13. Itoi, R., Ohbuchi, K., & Fukuno, M. (1996). A cross-cultural study of preference of accounts: Relationship closeness, harm, severity, and motives of account making. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26, 913-934.
14. Kadima Kadiangandu, J., Mullet, E., & Vinsonneau, G. (2001). Forgivingness: A Congo-France comparison. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 32, 504-511.
15. Ma, H. K. (1988). The Chinese perspectives on moral judgment development. International Journal of Psychology, 23, 201-227.
16. Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 98, 224-253.
17. McCullough, M. E., & Hoyt, W. T. (2002). Transgression-related motivational dispositions: Personality substrates of forgiveness and their links to the big five. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1556-1573.
18. Mullet, E., Barros, J., Frongia, L., Usai, V., Neto, F, & Shafighi, S. (2003). Religious involvement and the forgiving personality. Journal of Personality, 71, 1-19.
19. Mullet, E., Houdbine, A., Laumonnier, S., & Girard, M. (1998). Forgivingness: Factorial structure in a sample of young, middle-aged, and elderly adults. European Psychologist, 3, 289-297.
20. Mullet, E., Rivière, S., & Muñoz Sastre, M. T. (2006). Relationships between young adults' forgiveness culture and their parents' forgiveness culture. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 4, 159-172.
21. Muñoz Sastre, M. T, Vinsonneau, G., Chabrol, H., & Mullet, E. (2005). Forgivingness and the paranoid personality style. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 765-772.
22. Neto, F, & Mullet, E. (2004). Personality, self-esteem, and self-construal as correlates of forgivingness. European Journal of Personality, 18, 15-30.
23. Ohbuchi, K.-I., Kameda, M., & Agarie, N. (1989). Apology as aggression control: Its role in mediating appraisal of and response to harm. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 219-227.
24. Ohbuchi, K.-I., & Sato, K. (1994). Children's reactions to mitigating accounts: Apologies, excuses, and intentionality of harm. The Journal of Social Psychology, 134, 5-17.
25. Park, Y. O., & Enright, R. D. (1997). The development of forgiveness in the context of adolescent friendship conflict in Korea. Journal of Adolescence, 20, 393-402.
26. Paz, R., Neto, F & Mullet, E. (2007). Forgivingness: Similarities and differences between Buddhists and Christians living in China. International Journal of Psychology of Religion, 17, 289-301.
27. Roberts, R. C. (1995). Forgivingness. American Philosophical Quarterly, 32, 289-306.
28. Rye, M. S., Loiacono, D. M, Folck, C. D., Olszewski, B. T., Heim, T. A., & Madia, B. P. (2001). Evaluation of the psychometric properties of two forgiveness scales. Current Psychology, 20, 260-277.
29. Sandage, S. J., & Wiens, T. W. (2001). Contextualizing models of humility and forgiveness: A reply to Gassin. Journal of Psychology and Theology, 29, 201-211.
30. Sandage, S. J., & Williamson, I. (2005). Forgiveness in cultural context. In E. L. Worthington (Ed.), Handbook of forgiveness (pp. 41-56). New York: Routledge.
31. Suwartono, C., Prawasti, C. Y., & Mullet, E. (2007). Effect of culture on forgivingness: A Southern Asia-Western Europe comparison. Personality and Individual Differences, 42,513-523.
32. Takaku, S. (2000). Culture and status as influences on account giving: A comparison between the United States and Japan. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 30, 371-388.
33. Takaku, S., Weiner, B., & Ohbuchi, K.-I. (2001). A cross-cultural examination of the effects of apology and perspective-taking on forgiveness. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 20, 144-166.
34. Ting-Toomey, S. (1988). Intercultural conflict: A face-negotiation theory. In Y. Kim & W. B. Gudykunst (Eds.), Theories in intercultural communication (pp. 213-238). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
35. Wade, N. G., & Worthington, E. L. (2003). Overcoming interpersonal offenses: Is forgiveness the only way to deal with unforgiveness? Journal of Counseling and Development, 81, 343-353.
36. Watkins, D., & Regmi, M. (2004). Personality and forgiveness. The Journal of Social Psychology, 144, 539-540.
37. Worthington, E. L., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Handbook of forgiveness. New York: Routledge.
38. Worthington, E. L., Jr., & Wade, N. G. (1999). The social psychology of unforgiveness and forgiveness and implications for clinical practice. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 18, 385-418.