The Intermediary Role of Forgiveness and Mercy in the Relationship Between Spirituality and Aggression

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the intermediary role of forgiveness and mercy in the relationship between spirituality and aggression. The method for the study is relational research, which is a quantitative research method. As the data collection tools of the study, Spirituality Scale, Aggression Scale, Forgiveness Scale, and Mercy Scale were used. Of the sample group, 97 (22.8%) are male, and 327 (77.5%) are female. In the intermediary analysis, the total, direct, and indirect impact values of spirituality on aggression and their bootstrap confidence intervals were calculated. Its total impact, namely its total impact when spirituality, mercy, and forgive-ness are included in the analysis altogether is negative, -.4498, and their confidence intervals are found to be BootLLCI = -.4972 and BootULCI = -.0762. Direct impact, in other words the effect of spirituality on aggression, is negative, -.2867, and their confidence intervals are found to be BootLLCI= -.6711 and BootULCI =-.2284. Total indirect impact, that is, the overall intermediary impact of mercy and forgiveness on forgiveness is negative, -.1631, and their confidence intervals are found to be BootLLCI= -.2777 and BootULCI =-.0543. In this context, it was concluded that forgiveness has a partial intermediary role in the relationship between spirituality and aggression, mercy does not play an intermediary role in the relationship between spirituality and aggression, and that mercy does not have a serial mediatory role on forgiveness in the relationship between spirituality and aggression.