Competitive personality attitudes and forgiveness of others.
The authors conducted a survey to determine whether competitive attitudes are differentially associated with forgiveness or lack of forgiveness of others. The results showed that hypercompetitiveness was associated with a lack of forgiveness, whereas personal development competitiveness was associated positively with forgiveness. Discussion centers on the need to discourage socialization practices that foster the adoption of a self-contained individualism that is associated with a maladaptive hypercompetitiveness. Instead, parents should promote an ensembled individualism that is associated with a psychologically healthy personal development competitive orientation.
Department of Psychology, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA. shawn.collier@umit.maine.edu
Shawn A
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Collier
Richard M
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Ryckman
Bill
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Thornton
Joel A
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Gold
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D002605:Character; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D005260:Female; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010553:Personality Development; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior; D012928:Social Desirability; D012933:Social Identification; D012951:Socialization; D055815:Young Adult