Aging & mental health
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Aging & mental health · Feb 2019
Forgiveness and late life functioning: the mediating role of finding ego-integrity.
This study seeks (1) to replicate previous findings on the mediating effect of integrity/despair in the relation between forgiveness and depression in an elderly population and (2) to extend these findings to other aspects of functioning, namely life satisfaction and subjective health. Both aims were studied in a sample of residential elderly. ⋯ Framed within a life span perspective, we showed that the developmental task of finding a balance between integrity and despair is an important intrapersonal mechanism through which forgivingness is related with depressed feelings and life satisfaction for residential elderly. A different mechanism might explain the direct effect between forgiveness and subjective health.