Forgiveness and subjective well-being: A meta-analysis review

This article reports a meta-analysis on the relationship between forgiveness and subjective well-being. After searching and screening the literature, a total of 83 studies involving 39,104 participants were included in the analysis. Using the random-effects model, results indicated that people with forgiveness had higher subjective well-being, greater life satisfaction, more positive emotions, and fewer negative emotions. The relationship between personality tendency forgiveness and negative emotion was regulated by gender. Specifically, the higher the proportion of females in personality tendency forgiveness, the weaker the relationship between personality tendency forgiveness and negative emotion.