Decision to forgive scale and emotional forgiveness scale in a polish sample

The paper presents the concept of emotional and decisional forgiveness proposed by Worthington et al. (Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 30, 291-302, 2007 (See CR41)) and employing the Polish versions of the Decision to Forgive Scale and Emotional Forgiveness Scale developed in line with this theory. Both scales are tools measuring episodic forgiveness is forgiveness for a specific transgression that is made once. Decisional forgiveness is a declaration to forgive, whereas emotional forgiveness is a 'change of heart'. The results of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis showed that the structure of the Polish scales is exactly the same as of the original tools, i.e., in case of the DTFS, a one-factor solution (CFI = .998, GFI = .990, RMSEA = .042), and in case of the EFS, a two-factor solution (CFI = .987; GFI = .984; RMSEA = .051). The Polish versions of the DTFS and EFS were significantly correlated with other tools of forgiveness (TRIM-18 - episodic forgiveness and HFS- dispositional forgiveness).
Author(s): Justyna Mróz [sup.1] , Kinga Kaleta [sup.1] , Ewa Soltys [sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.411821.f, 0000 0001 2292 9126, Department Psychology, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, , Krakowska 11, [...]