title: Variables related to graduate students' willingness to forgive a job-related transgression.
abstract: 43 graduate students' willingness, within a hypothetical situation, to forgive a friend whose negligent actions negatively affected their chances of getting a job was examined. Self-actualization, age, and general interpersonal closeness were proposed as possible variables related to these students' ratings of willingness to forgive while controlling for sex. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed this model predicted 23% of the variability in Forgiveness scores using self-actualization and age as significantly related to forgiveness in a positive direction, but with sex and general interpersonal closeness showing no significant relation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506-0017, USA. leesherm@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Sherman A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Kathleen M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Chard
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002755:Choice Behavior; D004500:Education, Graduate; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012938:Social Perception; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*