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The Effects of Faith Maturity and Resilience of Christian University Students on Forgiveness

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2015, 23(2), pp.223-254
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2015.23.2.223
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : October 12, 2015
  • Accepted : November 12, 2015

Oh, Yoon Sun 1

1한국성서대학교

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ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to measure the effects of Christian university students' faith maturity and resilience on forgiveness. In order to achieve this purpose, the data were collected from 510 Christian university students by a questionnaire survey. The statistic analysis of this study employed PASW(SPSSWIN 20.0), and the main methods of statistics were frequency analysis, F-test, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis. The results of this study were as follows. First, the results revealed that Christian university students' faith maturity and resilience had significant positive correlations with forgiveness. Second, Christian university students' faith maturity had a positive effect on forgiveness. When the Christian university students had higher levels of faith maturity, the degree of its sub-factors and total score of forgiveness were higher. Third, Christian university students' resilience had a positive effect on forgiveness. When the Christian university students had higher levels of resilience, the degree of its sub-factors and total score of forgiveness were also higher. In the above results of this study, faith maturity and resilience have been proved to be effective for enhancing the Christian university students' forgiveness. Accordingly, faith maturity and resilience are the important variables for increasing the forgiveness quotient, and each of the variables is reciprocal two-way relations.

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