Abstract
The study was aimed at (a) examining the overall level of willingness to forgive expressed by Moslem and Christian Lebanese adults who lived through the Lebanese civil war, (b) examining the factorial structure of the responses given, (c) studying the way education, community, and other characteristics were related to the factorial structure, and (d) comparing Lebanese data with data previously gathered by Mullet et al. (1998) in France. A sample of 240 participants from six different communities, Shiite, Sunni, Druze, Catholic, Orthodox, and Maronite, was asked to express their degree of agreement with 38 statements related to forgiveness in general or in specific circumstances. A three-factor solution was found. Overall, participants expressed significant disagreement with statements expressing the desire to seek revenge (the Forgiveness versus Revenge factor), and disagreement with statements indicating that the attitude of close others was important (the Social and Personal Circumstances factor). Th...
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