Chinese Community Residents Forgiveness Scale – Chinese Version

Description

The community serves as a fundamental setting for people’s daily lives and social activities. Within the community ecosystem, individuals often face conflicts, offenses, or unfair treatment. After experiencing these situations, people may adopt different coping strategies, such as vengeance, avoidance, hostility, or forgiveness. Research has shown that choosing forgiveness can enhance an individual’s health and happiness, mend damaged social relationships, and stabilize social harmony. Forgiveness is a complex psychological and behavioral phenomenon, yet academia has not reached a consensus on its definition, focusing on various aspects such as cognition, emotion, behavioral tendencies, and motivation. In the Chinese language, “宽恕” (forgiveness) is synonymous with “恕道” (the way of forgiveness), which is an important category in traditional Chinese ethics and one of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. According to the “Modern Chinese Dictionary (7th Edition),” forgiveness is defined as “tolerance and pardon,” where tolerance refers to “being broad-minded and not being calculative or pursuing responsibility,” and pardon means “to exempt from punishment.”

Authors and Contact Email

杜刚, 黄希庭. Contact information not available.

Purpose

To develop the Chinese Community Residents’ Forgiveness Scale (CCRFS) for assessing forgiveness levels among community residents.

Test Year

2022

Administration Method and Scoring

The CCRFS employs a seven-point Likert scale (1 = Strongly Disagree, 7 = Strongly Agree).

Reliability and Validity

Information not available.

Factors and Subscales

1. 饶恕原谅 (Forbearance and Forgiveness) – 4.03 ± 1.12
2. 推己及人 (Empathy) – 3.83 ± 1.26
3. 洞察省思 (Insight and Reflection) – 4.94 ± 1.12
4. 宽广包容 (Generosity and Tolerance) – 4.49 ± 1.15
5. Residents’ Total Forgiveness Score – 4.32 ± 0.95

Keywords

Forgiveness, Community, Psychological Well-being, Social Harmony, Chinese Community Residents

Items in Chinese

1. 对曾经伤害过我的人，我能放下对他／她的怨恨。
2. 我能够体谅曾经伤害过我的人。
3. 对曾经发生过的伤害，我能够释然。
4. 当有人伤害了我，我会选择原谅他／她。
5. 我能不计前嫌地帮助曾经伤害过我的人。
6. 我希望伤害过我的人都得到报应。
7. 当与人发生了冲突，我会试着理解他／她。
8. 当与人发生了矛盾，我能将心比心、以己度人。
9. 如果有人伤害了我，我能想到他／她的感受。
10. 随着时间推移，我会理解伤害过我的人。
11. 尽管受到了他人的伤害，但我仍能替他人着想。
12. 当和他人相处中出现问题，我会反思如何解决。
13. 我会试着寻找别人与我发生冲突的原因。
14. 当与人发生了矛盾，我会反省自己的问题。
15. 当有人对我无礼时，我不太会往心里去。
16. 对待他人的错误，我从不咄咄逼人。
17. 我一直都能做到心宽如海。
18. 当别人对我无礼时，我会保持冷静。
19. 我从不斤斤计较他人的疏忽与过错。
20. 我常以宽容、宽厚的态度对待他人。

Items in English

1. I can let go of my resentment towards those who have hurt me in the past.
2. I am able to understand those who have hurt me in the past.
3. I can find peace regarding the harm that has occurred in the past.
4. When someone hurts me, I choose to forgive him/her.
5. I can help those who have hurt me without bearing a grudge.
6. I hope that those who have hurt me face consequences.
7. When I have a conflict with someone, I try to understand them.
8. When I have a disagreement with someone, I can put myself in their shoes.
9. If someone hurts me, I think about his/her feelings.
10. Over time, I come to understand those who have hurt me.
11. Despite being hurt by others, I can still think of others.
12. When problems arise in my interactions with others, I reflect on how to resolve them.
13. I try to find the reasons for my conflicts with others.
14. When I have a disagreement, I reflect on my own issues.
15. When someone is rude to me, I usually don’t take it to heart.
16. I am never aggressive regarding others’ mistakes.
17. I am always able to be as broad-minded as the sea.
18. When others are rude to me, I remain calm.
19. I never nitpick others’ oversights and mistakes.
20. I often treat others with a tolerant and generous attitude.

References

杜刚, 黄希庭.中国社区居民宽恕量表的研制[J].西南大学学报(社会科学版),2022,48(02):192-199.DOI:10.13718/j.cnki.xdsk.2022.02.018