| Summary: | Ability to forgive can change depending on various factors, some of which might be constant like gender and some situational. It can change during different periods of human life. The aim of this study was to investigate different aspects of ability’s to forgive development in groups of healthy participants and oncological patients.
There were 310 participants in this study: 145 males and 165 females, whose age varied from 18 to 70 years. Participants were divided in two groups: healthy participants and oncological patients. A group of healthy participants consisted of 209 people, oncological patients – 101 participant. Their ability to forgive, empathy, awareness of grievances and acceptance of God‘s forgiveness were investigated.
After data analysis the following hypotheses were confirmed: items of forgiveness scale in healthy participants were scored higher than in oncological patients; items of empathy scale in healthy participants were scored higher than in oncological patients; healthy females’ item “degree of awareness of grievances to self” was scored higher than scores of males.
Other significant differences comparing ability to forgive, empathy, awareness of grievances and acceptance of God‘s forgiveness were found in groups of healthy participants, oncological patients, male and female. Significant correlations between age and ability to forgive, empathy, awareness of grievances and acceptance of God‘s forgiveness were found in groups according to health status... [to full text]
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