Differential Effects of Decisional and Emotional Forgiveness on Psychological, Spiritual, Social, Volitional, and Physical Well-Being: A Scoping Review.

Richard G Cowden, Everett L Worthington, Caleb A Chung, Zhuo Job Chen

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Review in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Longitudinal associations of dispositional forgivingness with multidimensional well-being: a two-wave outcome-wide analysis in the Global Flourishing Study.Npj mental health research · 2026
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Richard G CowdenHuman Flourishing Program, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9027-4253

Everett L WorthingtonDepartment of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5095-4588

Caleb A ChungHuman Flourishing Program, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Zhuo Job ChenSchool of Nursing, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0839-1627

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Abstract

Within a stress-and-coping theory of forgiveness, two dimensions of forgiveness have been hypothesized-decisional forgiveness (DF) and emotional forgiveness (EF). Each is theorized to have different impacts on different dimensions of well-being-psychological, spiritual (or religious), social, volitional, and physical. A scoping review was performed to explore the associations of each dimension of forgiveness with each dimension of well-being. A total of

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decisional forgivenessdecision to forgiveemotional forgivenesshealthscoping reviewwell-being

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PMID40361770

DOI10.3390/healthcare13090992

PMCPMC12071234

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