Forgiveness, Apology, and Communicative Responses to Hurtful Events

Autor:	Laura K. Guerrero, Guy Foster Bachman
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Forgiveness International communication Communication media_common.quotation_subject Loyalty Interpersonal communication Association (psychology) Psychology Social psychology Language and Linguistics Education media_common
Zdroj:	Communication Reports. 19:45-56
ISSN:	1745-1043 0893-4215
DOI:	10.1080/08934210600586357
Popis:	Data from 263 individuals who had been hurt by something a dating partner said or did offered support for the interpersonal forgiveness model—forgiveness associated positively with integrative communication and negatively with de-escalation and distributive communication. When hurt individuals believed the partner had sincerely apologized they were more likely to grant forgiveness and report using the direct strategies of integrative and distributive communication, and less likely to report using de-escalation and loyalty. Among the various hurtful events investigated, breaking up with the partner and being sexually unfaithful were reportedly the least forgivable offenses. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2003 meeting of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA. Data for this study were taken from the first author's dissertation, which was directed by the second author. The authors thank the other members of the dissertation committee, Dan Canary and F. Scott Christo...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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