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Everett L. Worthington
Researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University
Publications - 351
Citations - 21903
Everett L. Worthington is an academic researcher from Virginia Commonwealth University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Forgiveness & Humility. The author has an hindex of 64, co-authored 340 publications receiving 19789 citations. Previous affiliations of Everett L. Worthington include National Institutes of Health & University of Missouri.
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Interpersonal Forgiving in Close Relationships: II. Theoretical Elaboration and Measurement
Michael E. McCullough,Kenneth C. Rachal,Steven J. Sandage,Everett L. Worthington,Brown Sw,Hight Tl +5 more
TL;DR: The development of the transgression-related interpersonal motivations inventory is described--a self-report measure designed to assess the 2-component motivational system (Avoidance and Revenge) posited to underlie forgiving, which demonstrated a variety of desirable psychometric properties.
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Interpersonal forgiving in close relationships
TL;DR: Evidence is found consistent with the hypotheses that the relationship between receiving an apology from and forgiving one's offender is a function of increased empathy for the offender and that forgiving is uniquely related to conciliatory behavior and avoidance behavior toward the offending partner.
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The Religious Commitment Inventory--10: Development, Refinement, and Validation of a Brief Scale for Research and Counseling.
Everett L. Worthington,Nathaniel G. Wade,Terry L. Hight,Jennifer S. Ripley,Michael E. McCullough,John W. Berry,Michelle M. Schmitt,James T. Berry,Kevin H. Bursley,Lynn E. O'Connor +9 more
TL;DR: The RCI-10 (Religious Commitment Inventory-10) as mentioned in this paper was developed for 6 studies and used in 6 studies with a sample size of 155, 132, and 150 college students; 240 Christian church-attending married adults; 468 undergraduates including (among others) Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, and non-religious (n = 117).
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Forgiveness is an emotion-focused coping strategy that can reduce health risks and promote health resilience: theory, review, and hypotheses
TL;DR: Forgiveness is conceptualized as an emotional juxtaposition of positive emotions (i.e., empathy, sympathy, compassion, or love) against the negative emotions of unforgiveness as mentioned in this paper.
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Religion and spirituality.
TL;DR: Patients in R/S psychotherapies showed greater improvement than those in alternate secular psychotherAPies both on psychological and spiritual outcomes andReligiously accommodated treatments outperformed dismantling-design alternative treatments on spiritual but not on psychological outcomes.