Angry memories and thoughts of revenge: The relationship between forgiveness and anger rumination

Barber, Louise; Maltby, John; Macaskill, Ann

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2005.01.006

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“…Laboratory research has shown a positive relation between trait hostile rumination and aggressive behavior in response to provocation (Caprara et al, 1987;Collins and Bell, 1997). Relatedly, trait angry rumination, which focuses more generally on angry feelings and memories, is also associated with greater self-reported aggression, hostility, and anger and with less forgiveness (Anestis et al, 2009;Barber et al, 2005;Stoia-Caraballo et al, 2008;Sukhodolsky et al, 2001). …”

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Trait and State Hostile Rumination Facilitate Alcohol-Related Aggression

Borders¹,

Giancola²

2011

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: This investigation attempted to determine whether trait and state hostile rumination functioned as risk factors for the relation between acute alcohol intoxication and aggression. Method: Participants were 516 social drinkers (252 men and 264 women). Trait hostile rumination was assessed using Caprara's Dissipation-Rumination Scale. Following the consumption of either an alcohol or a placebo beverage, participants were tested on a laboratory task in which electric shocks were received from and administered to a fi ctitious opponent under the guise of a competitive reaction-time task. Aggression was operationalized as the combined mean responses for shock intensity and duration across all trials. In a subset of the sample (n = 320), state hostile rumination was assessed following the aggression task using a self-report measure. Results: As expected, both trait and state measures acted as moderators. Specifi cally, acute alcohol intoxication was more likely to increase aggression in persons with higher trait and state hostile rumination scores compared with their equally intoxicated lower rumination counterparts. Conclusions: This was the fi rst investigation to demonstrate that trait or state rumination signifi cantly heighten the risk of intoxicated aggression. We believe that hostile rumination facilitates intoxicated aggression because ruminators have diffi culty diverting their attention away from anger-provoking stimuli and related thoughts, thus making violent reactions more likely. Clinical and public health interventions would benefi t by developing strategies to distract ruminative attention away from violence-promoting messages, especially when persons are under the infl uence of alcohol. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 72,

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Trait and State Hostile Rumination Facilitate Alcohol-Related Aggression

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Giancola²

2011

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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“…In the previous studies in which similar relations are examined, negative correlations between these variables are observed (Eaton and Struthers, 2006;Fincham and Beach, 2002;. Also, forgiveness shows a significant negative correlation with revenge (Ayten, 2009;Barber, Maltby and Macaskill, 2005;Brown, 2004;Rijavec, Jurčec and Mijočević, 2010), physical and psychological aggression (James and McNulty, 2011), anger (Berry, Worthington, O'Connor, Parrot and Wade, 2005;Çardak, 2012), rumination (Allemand, Steiner ve Hill, 2013;Aşçıoğlu Önal, 2012;Wu, Sun, Miao, Yu ve Wang, 2011) and hostility (Kovácsová, Rosková and Lajunen, 2014;Snyder and Heinze, 2005). Consequently, the result of this research is consistent with the findings of the researches mentioned above.…”

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A Model to Explain the Observed Tendency to Aggression in University Students

Yazıcı¹,

Camadan²

2016

HUJE

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Some approaches in psychology (e.g. Psychoanalysis) define aggression as an inborn behavior while some others (e.g. Behaviorism) define it as an acquired behavior. However, today it is a more widely admitted idea that aggression is a product of heredity-environment interactions and it has a relation with different psycho-social variables. It is observed that aggression was tried to be explained by more basic research models in previous studies. In this study; however, it was preferred to form a complex model to explain aggression selected as a dependent variable. The main objective of the study in this context is to examine the relation between aggression and the variables of perfectionism, forgiveness and coping with stress. The study group consists of 2744 university students studying in seven different cities. The data of the study was analyzed with the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results obtained from the study show that aggression is explained significantly by the variables of perfectionism (β=.13; p<.001), forgiveness (β=-.40; p<.001) and negative and passive coping (β=.17; p<.001). Some of the results show similarities with the previous findings while the others have some differences. In consideration of the results, some suggestions were made for the implementation process and for further researches. Keywords: Aggression, perfectionism, forgiveness, coping ÖZ: Psikoloji alanındaki bazı yaklaşımlar (ör. Psikanaliz) saldırganlığı doğuştan getirilen, bazıları ise (ör. Davranışçılık) sonradan kazanılan bir davranış olarak tanımlar. Bununla birlikte bu davranışın kalıtım-çevre etkileşiminin bir ürünü olduğu ve farklı psiko-sosyal değişkenlerle ilişki sergilediği, günümüzde daha yaygın kabul edilen bir görüştür. Önceki çalışmalarda, saldırganlık eğilimlerinin daha basit araştırma modelleriyle açıklanmaya çalışıldığı gözlenmiştir. Bu çalışmada bağımlı değişken olarak seçilen saldırganlığı daha iyi açıklamak için karmaşık bir modelin oluşturulması tercih edilmiştir. Bu kapsamda çalışmanın temel amacı; saldırganlık eğilimlerinin, mükemmeliyetçilik, affetme ve stresle başa çıkma değişkenleriyle ilişkilerini incelemektir. Araştırma grubu, Türkiye'nin farklı şehirlerinde bulunan yedi üniversitede öğrenim gören, 2744 öğrenciden (Kız= 1493, Erkek=1251) oluşmaktadır. Çalışmanın verileri Yapısal Eşitlik Modeli (YEM) ve bazı çıkarımlı istatistik teknikleriyle analiz edilmiştir. Araştırmadan elde edilen sonuçlar, saldırganlık eğilimlerinin mükemmeliyetçilik (β=.13; p<.001), affetme (β=-.40; p<.001) ve olumsuz ve edilgen başa çıkma (β=.17; p<.001) değişkenleri tarafından anlamlı düzeyde açıklandığını göstermiştir. Sonuçların bir kısmı önceki araştırma bulgularıyla benzerlik gösterirken, bazılarında farklılıklara rastlanmıştır. Sonuçlar ışığında uygulama sürecine ve ileride yapılacak araştırmalara ilişkin öneriler getirilmiştir.

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“…In addition, anger rumination is associated, especially in daily life, with risky behaviors such as impulsivity and aggression (Anestis, Anestis, Selby, & Joiner, 2009;Gilbert, Cheung, Irons, & McEwan, 2005;Sukhodolsky, Golub, & Cromwell, 2001). Individuals experiencing anger rumination tend to have difficulty to forgive those who have mistreated them, which causes their emotional intelligence to influence their cognitive intelligence and as a result, the individual exhibits attitudes and behaviors that reflect this influence (Barber, Maltby, & Macaskill, 2005).…”

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Does the Anger Rumination has an Effect on the Employee Creativity

Gozukara

Özyer²

2016

IJBM

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Individuals, especially in the management level, who are distinguished with their employee identity in their respective workplaces in the unity of social life, highly interact with each other. It is evident that in this process wherein the individuals interact with each other, their attitudes towards each other affect the process of creating mutual behaviors and perceptions. On one hand individuals may harm each other through unethical or counterproductive behaviors and on the other hand, even if there is no intention to harm, the behavior of the individual with whom one interacts can be perceived as aggressive. All these scenarios cause anger rumination in individuals, which can be defined as one's contemplating over the reasons of behavior or attitudes through anger while spending a lot of time. Meanwhile, anger can be defined as creating a negative emotion towards any cognitive assessments, psychological changes and tendencies of action. That this process of creating emotions is evaluated for a long period of time via rumination may lead to the assumption that the affects of the employee change due to anger rumination. On the other hand, the employee creativity emerging during the activities of individuals in their respective workplaces depend on a highly emotional evaluation. This study has been prepared to determine whether, especially in the case of white-collar workers experiencing anger rumination, that has an effect on their individual creativity. The relation between the anger rumination and the employee creativity constitutes this study's distinctive aspect. The data obtained from this research propose that the creativity is a basic need of companies and that determining the impact level of the anger rumination on the creativity and taking counter-measures against the anger rumination may contribute to the building of an innovative company in a competitive market.

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Angry memories and thoughts of revenge: The relationship between forgiveness and anger rumination

Cited by 134 publications

References 23 publications

Trait and State Hostile Rumination Facilitate Alcohol-Related Aggression

Trait and State Hostile Rumination Facilitate Alcohol-Related Aggression

A Model to Explain the Observed Tendency to Aggression in University Students

Does the Anger Rumination has an Effect on the Employee Creativity

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