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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 27, No. 5,
601-610 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167201275008
© 2001 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.
Vengefulness: Relationships with Forgiveness, Rumination, Well-Being, and the Big Five
Michael E. McCullough
Southern Methodist University, mikem{at}mail.smu.edu
C. Garth Bellah
Louisiana Tech University
Shelley Dean Kilpatrick
National Institute for Healthcare Research
Judith L. Johnson
Christopher Newport University
Because forgiveness theory has tended to neglect the role of dispositional factors, the authors present novel theorizing about the nature of vengefulness (the disposition to seek revenge following interpersonal offenses) and its relationship to forgiveness and other variables. In Study 1, vengefulness was correlated cross-sectionally with (a) less forgiving, (b) greater rumination about the offense, (c) higher negative affectivity, and (d) lower life satisfaction. Vengefulness at baseline was negatively related to change in forgiving throughout an 8-week follow-up. In Study 2, vengefulness was negatively associated with Agreeableness and positively associated with Neuroticism. Measures of the Big Five personality factors explained 30% of the variance in vengefulness.
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