Assessment of forgiveness in couple relationships: Adaptation of the Marital Offense-Specific Forgiveness Scale (MOFS) to a Spanish sample

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...

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Published in:Journal of marital and family therapy 2025-01, Vol.51 (1), p.e12738
Main Authors: Kasprzak, Agata, Martínez-Díaz, María Pilar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Female
Forgiveness
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Male
Marriage - ethnology
Marriage - psychology
Middle Aged
Psychometrics - instrumentation
Psychometrics - standards
Spain
Spouses - psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires - standards
United States
Young Adult
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0194-472X
1752-0606
1752-0606
DOI:10.1111/jmft.12738