title: Forgiveness, health, and problematic drinking among college students in southern Appalachia.
abstract: Evidence is growing regarding the salutary relationships between spirituality and health, including alcohol problems, yet little is known about spirituality and health in the context thereof. Cross-sectional associations between forgiveness and health were examined among college student problematic drinkers (n = 126; ♀ = 60%; M (age) = 22) in Southern Appalachia. Controlling for demographic variables (including religiosity), dimensions of forgiveness accounted for 7-33 percent of the variance in the health-related variables in a salutary fashion. Forgiveness of Self appears to be the most important dimension of forgiveness measured, yet the most difficult to develop.
authors: East Tennessee State University, Tennessee, USA. webbjr@etsu.edu
authors: Jon R
authors: JR
authors: Webb
authors: Ken
authors: K
authors: Brewer
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism; D001061:Appalachian Region; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D055815:Young Adult