Guilty and ashamed: Why aren't women happier and less self-forgiving?
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Tom Carpenter, Ph.D.
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Event
Project Type
Completed quantitative research study
Primary Department
Psychology
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We introduce a framework for predicting self-forgiveness that explains existing findings while predicting novel relationships. In our framework, guilt- and shame-proneness sometimes act as mediators and sometimes act as suppressors. We suggest that when guilt and shame vary in the same direction (as in sex differences), they mutually suppress, obscuring differences in self-forgiveness. We provide an initial test of predictions with respect to sex in an MTurk sample (n = 400). Consistent with our framework, guilt and shame mutually suppressed sex differences in self-forgiveness. Our study clarifies, predicts, and explains the complex and roles of guilt and shame in relationships with self-forgiveness.
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Guilty and ashamed: Why aren't women happier and less self-forgiving?
We introduce a framework for predicting self-forgiveness that explains existing findings while predicting novel relationships. In our framework, guilt- and shame-proneness sometimes act as mediators and sometimes act as suppressors. We suggest that when guilt and shame vary in the same direction (as in sex differences), they mutually suppress, obscuring differences in self-forgiveness. We provide an initial test of predictions with respect to sex in an MTurk sample (n = 400). Consistent with our framework, guilt and shame mutually suppressed sex differences in self-forgiveness. Our study clarifies, predicts, and explains the complex and roles of guilt and shame in relationships with self-forgiveness.
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This poster was also presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 2018