Title
Making Up or Getting Even? The Effects of Face Concerns, Self-Construal, and Apology on Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Revenge in the United States and China
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to integrate the central constructs in the face-negotiation theory in the examination of the antecedents and behavioral consequences of forgiveness in relational transgressions in U.S. and Chinese cultures. Results indicated that in both cultures, transgression victims' independent self-construal and self-face concern were negatively associated, whereas their interdependent self-construals and other-face concerns were positively associated, with forgiveness, and offender apology was positively associated with forgiveness. Forgiveness had a positive relationship with reconciliation but a negative relationship with revenge in both cultures. The hypothesized model in which forgiveness mediated the relationships of antecedents on reconciliation and revenge fit the data well in both cultural samples.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1177/0093650215607959
COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
self-construal,face concerns,apology,forgiveness,reconciliation,revenge
Journal
46.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP4.0
0093-6502
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
qin zhang100.34
john g oetzel200.68
stella tingtoomey300.68
j zhang400.34