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ROSALES-SARABIA, Rodrigo Miguel; RIVERA ARAGON, Sofía  e  GARCIA MENDEZ, Mirna. Psychometric review of three scales of forgiveness: Measuring the emotional metamorphosis. Acta de investigación psicol [online]. 2017, vol.7, n.1, pp.2577-2584. ISSN 2007-4719.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aipprr.2017.02.005.

It has been reported that suffering from interpersonal transgressions may cause individuals to maintain resentment and experience more negative affect, anger, stress, and depression (Stackhouse, Ross, & Boon, 2016). Given its impact on physical and mental health, it is important to study forgiveness from a scientific perspective, for which counting on valid and reliable measure instruments is highly important. However, there are just a few in Spanish, and haven’t been deeply studied, so in this research the psychometric properties of three scales of forgiveness were reviewed: The Forgiveness Capacity Scale (CAPER; Casullo & Fernández-Liporacce, 2005), the Forgiveness Scale (Vargas-Núñez & Pozos-Gutiérrez, 2005), and the Scale of Forgiveness in the Romantic Relationship (Rosales-Sarabia, 2013). For the psychometric analysis of CAPER and the Forgiveness Scale, 253 adults participated, while for the Scale of Forgiveness in the Romantic Relationship, 238 people involved in a relationship participated, all residents of the metropolitan area of the Mexico City. The results showed that only the Forgiveness Scale in the Romantic Relationship replicated its factorial structure in a different sample. Findings are discussed in the light of international scientific literature.

Palavras-chave : Forgiveness; Caper; Romantic relationships; Resentment; Psychometry.