The effects of forgiveness education program for university students

Abstract

Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of forgiveness education program for university students. It aimed to grasp how forgiveness programs affected life satisfaction, the degrees of forgiveness, anger, depression, self-esteem, spirituality and happiness of university students. Methods: Subjects were 43 students as an experimental group and 43 students as a control group. One was an experimental group which participated in a forgiveness education program in K University, and the other was a control group which was not participated in any programs in other universities. Findings: Following the intervention, the experimental group experienced a significant improvement in degrees of forgiveness (t=-2.41, p