Assessment of forgiveness in couple relationships: Adaptation of the Marital Offense-Specific Forgiveness Scale (MOFS) to a Spanish sample.
Marital Offense‐Specific Forgiveness Scale
couple
forgiveness
validity
Journal
Journal of marital and family therapy
ISSN: 1752-0606
Titre abrégé: J Marital Fam Ther
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7904614
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Sep 2024
15 Sep 2024
Historique:
revised:
31
08
2024
received:
16
04
2024
accepted:
02
09
2024
medline:
16
9
2024
pubmed:
16
9
2024
entrez:
16
9
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Forgiveness plays an important role in couple relationships, as it is essential in overcoming interpersonal offenses and related to the well-being of the relationship. To date, no valid instruments are available for Spanish populations to evaluate forgiveness within marital relationships. This study aims to adapt and evaluate the Marital Offense-Specific Forgiveness Scale (MOFS), comparing the behavior of the scale in two cultural contexts: Spain and the United States. Two studies were conducted: the first with 389 participants to evaluate the behavior of the scale and to explore the dimensionality of the Spanish version of the MOFS using exploratory factor analysis (EFA); the second study used a sample of 361 Spanish and 119 American participants, conducting a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and an invariance factor analysis. The EFA revealed two factors: Avoidance-Resentment and Benevolence. Using CFA, the factorial structure of the MOFS was confirmed, with results indicating that the proposed model presents a similar fit to the original version.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Informations de copyright
© 2024 American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
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