Forgiveness Tendency and Attitudes Toward Forgiveness Test

People examining responses to hurt can use this questionnaire for focused self-reflection. The Forgiveness Tendency and Attitudes Toward Forgiveness Test considers readiness to release resentment and beliefs about forgiveness and suits anyone examining emotional recovery, grievances, or values shaping reactions after unfair treatment. The result offers a forgiveness self-assessment with two separate dimensions: a general tendency to forgive and an evaluative attitude toward forgiveness.

What This Assessment Explores

Items address recovery after hurt, prolonged thoughts about unfairness, grudges, willingness to forgive, and attempts to put injustice out of mind. Other statements examine whether forgiveness is beneficial, admirable, weak, or less important than justice. Together, they distinguish reactions to transgression from beliefs about forgiveness.

For interpretation, it functions as a forgiveness tendency questionnaire: it can show whether resentment lingers and whether forgiveness is viewed as worthwhile. Someone may value forgiveness in principle yet struggle to release a grievance, or recover quickly while remaining skeptical about forgiveness.

The two displayed dimensions are:

• Positive Attitude Toward Forgiveness (6-42) measures whether forgiveness is viewed as important and beneficial; Skeptical/Neutral (6-18), Moderately Positive (19-30), and Strongly Positive (31-42) are the displayed bands.
• Forgiveness Tendency (4-28) measures readiness to let go of resentment rather than hold a grudge; Low forgiveness (4-12), Moderate forgiveness (13-20), and High forgiveness (21-28) are the displayed bands.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Seven ordered response choices run from strong disagreement to strong agreement, with a middle option for uncertainty. Each statement asks for a self-assessment of usual reactions or beliefs, covering both personal responses and evaluations of forgiveness. That format suits an attitudes toward forgiveness questionnaire because it captures both sides of the construct.

Responses are organized into the two displayed dimensions, and the items cover readiness to forgive, positive valuation, and persistent resentment. The displayed ranges and bands do not disclose how individual responses are converted into points.

Conceptually, the questionnaire is consistent with Brown’s 2003 Tendency to Forgive measure. Brown and Phillips (2005) supplied further validity evidence for the tendency construct, while Kononova and Pugovkina (2018) examined related forgiveness tendencies and attitudes. The online questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that published work, but is not presented as a documented standardized reproduction or adaptation.

Read the result as a current self-report snapshot: mood, recent conflict, memory, and self-awareness can influence answers, so the bands are descriptive rather than universal clinical cutoffs and are not a diagnosis.