Forgiveness among Javanese Ethnic Students: A Mountainous, Highland, Lowland, and Coastal Culture Background Comparison

Andar Ifazatul Nurlatifah

doi:10.17509/jomsign.v4i1.22879

Abstract

It has been repeatedly documented in the scientific literature that culture plays an important role in forgiveness. However, research of mountainous, highland, lowland and coastal culture related to forgiveness was rare. The goal of this study was to describe the comparison of forgiveness among Javanese ethnic students who had been raised in mountainous, highland, lowland, and coastal culture background. Forgiveness Scale developed to obtain the data was adapted from TRIM and has been tested for its reliability and validity using the Rasch model. Descriptive statistics, Kruskal-Wallis (H) test, and Mann-Whitney (U) posthoc test were used to analyze the data. The result showed an insignificant difference in forgiveness but showed a significant difference in lessen-avoidance motivation. This finding had practical implications in multicultural counselling, especially in promoting forgiveness to various counselees. For a more comprehensive understanding, further research in forgiveness motives is required.

Highlights

This research aims to develop existing literature through the exploration of demographic variables on Javanese ethnic, especially on students who had been raised in mountainous, highland, lowland, and coastal culture background in Salatiga and its surroundings
AND DISCUSSIONS Description of students’ forgiveness The research found that the forgiveness of Javanese students of IAIN Salatiga who had been raised in the mountainous, highland, lowland, and coastal culture was "high" (46.06%), "moderate" (31.54%), "very high" (3.73%), "low" (0.62%), and "very low" (0.21%)
The highest mean was obtained by students who had been raised in coastal culture background (58.74 ± 8.29), mountainous culture (57.54 ± 11.75), highland culture (56.37 ± 8.11), and lowland culture (55.78 ± 7.97)

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Introduction

Theoretical review shows that forgiveness is classified as one of the character strengths in the dimension of temperance that protects a person from anger, resentment, and hurt (Peterson & Seligman, 2004). Forgiveness is inferred from low revenge and avoidance motivation combined with high benevolence motivation. Forgiveness is a composite of motivation change indicated by reducing revenge motivation, reducing avoidance motivation, and increasing. Andar Ifazatul Nurlatifah benevolence motivation to the transgressors (McCullough, Worthington, & Rachal, 1997; McCullough, 2008). When a person experiences negative treatment from transgressor, they can choose to remain hurt and betrayed or choose to free their selves from these negative feelings through forgiveness

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