Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
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Keywords
Adolescent psychology; Children of divorced parents; Forgiveness;
Abstract
An educational intervention with forgiveness as the goal, was implemented with five adolescents who had experienced a parental divorce. The adolescents were all from a Midwestern city, ages 12-14, and Caucasian. The goal of the intervention was for the experimental participants to forgive their parents for a hurt associated with a parental divorce. An exploratory design with a static control group was used. Five subjects volunteered for the forgiveness education intervention, comprising the experimental group, and five subjects agreed to fill out pre- and post-test measures, for monetary reimbursement, composing the control group. The educational intervention lasted 10 weeks, and used a curriculum, designed by the researcher and modeled after Enright and the Human Development Study Group's (1991) process model of forgiveness. Dependent variables included a forgiveness scale, a hope scale, a state-trait anxiety scale, a psychological depression scale, and a self-esteem inventory. Following the intervention, the experimental group illustrated statistically significant greater hope as compared to the control group. Verbal reports from the experimental group, postintervention, lend evidence that the forgiveness education did increase the adolescents' forgiveness attitude toward their parent(s) and have a positive influence on their psychological well-being. Implications for further research are drawn.
Year of Submission
1999
Degree Name
Specialist in Education
Department
Department of Educational Psychology, Foundations, and Leadership Studies
Department
Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations
First Advisor
Suzanne Freedman
Date Original
1999
Object Description
1 PDF file (124 pages)
Copyright
©1999 Amy L. Knupp
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Knupp, Amy L., "Forgiveness Education as a Factor in Adolescent Adjustment to Parental Divorce" (1999). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 1540.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/1540
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