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The Forgiveness among Vocational Students in Bangkok

Sirinadda Punyapas MD1, Tikumporn Hosiri MD1, Onpraparn Thavepthavolvong MSc1, Sudsabuy Chulakadabba MD1, Sucheera Phattharayuttawat PhD1, Thienchai Ngamthipwatthana MD1, Soisuda Imaroonrak MSc1, Thanayot Sumalrot PhD1, Natchaphon Auampradit MSc1

Affiliation : 1 Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Objective : To study forgiveness among vocational students in Bangkok area as well as evaluation of overall forgiveness and its subscales classified by year and department.
Materials and Methods : The 240 participants were students who studied in vocational college for whom data was collected using a Forgiveness Scales for Teenagers Questionnaire.
Results : The results indicated that the categories of overall forgiveness, situational forgiveness and forgive others were ranked in ‘indifference to forgive’ while self-forgiveness was ranked ‘slightly forgive’. When comparing the total scale and subscale scores of forgiveness by year, 1st-year students had higher scores than the 2nd-year students with significance level at 0.05. However, both total scale and sub-scale scores of the students from various departments did not illustrated statistical differences.
Conclusion : The findings reflected the characteristics of forgiveness in vocational certificate level students which provide vital information in planning to promote forgiveness quality in order to minimize violence when resolving conflict.

Keywords : Forgiveness, The certificate vocational students


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