AUTHOR=Hong Wei , Liu Ru-De , Ding Yi , Oei Tian Po , Fu Xinchen , Jiang Ronghuan , Jiang Shuyang TITLE=Self-Esteem Moderates the Effect of Compromising Thinking on Forgiveness Among Chinese Early Adolescents JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=11 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00104 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00104 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Forgiveness contributes to positive social relationships, which is critical for individual development, particularly for early adolescents. Most previous studies focused on the unique roles of cognitive factors (e.g., compromising thinking) and personality traits (e.g., self-esteem) in the process of developing forgiveness. However, sporadic research has examined their interactive effect on forgiveness from an integrated perspective. Given that forgiveness has been categorized into decisional and emotional forgiveness, this study aimed to examine the effects of compromising thinking on two types of forgiveness, and the moderating effects of self-esteem on the association between compromising thinking and forgiveness among early adolescents. A total of 1,009 Chinese primary and secondary school students (50.4% males;