Seeking forgiveness: Factor structure, and relationships with personality and forgivingness

Abstract

Study 1 explored the factor structure of the disposition to seek forgiveness. Three factors were found that duplicated factors that had been shown to structure forgiveness: inability in seeking forgiveness; sensitivity to circumstances; and unconditional seeking of forgiveness. Study 2 was concerned with seeking forgiveness and granting forgiveness. Each factor in the seeking forgiveness model was positively and strongly associated with the corresponding factor in the granting forgiveness model. Inability into seek forgiveness was negatively associated with agreeableness, openness, and positively associated with paranoid tendencies. Unconditional seeking of forgiveness was positively associated with agreeableness.