The Role of aggression and self-compassion in the forgiveness in the Mother Assistants of the Rehabilitation Centers for Mentally Retarded People

Social perception and emotions play an important role in decision making process. This is notably evident in communication with mentally retarded people who are in worse situation compared to the normal persons. Therefore, this study aims to investigate The Role of Aggression and Self-Compassion in the Forgiveness in mother assistants of the rehabilitation centers for mentally retarded people. This is a descriptive study based on the correlation-regression analytical method. The statistical population consisted of all 415 mother assistants from rehabilitation centers for mentally retarded people in Golestan province, of whom 200 were selected as the sample using the simple random sampling method. Data were collected individually[1] in these centers. In this research, Forgiveness Scale (Ehteshamzadeh et al., 2010), Aggression Questionnaire (AGQ) (Buss and Perry, 1992) and Self-Compassion Scale – Long Form (SCS-LF) were used. The results indicate that, in total, problem solving and cultural intelligence styles could predict positivism. In part, the components of the creative style (0.60), the helpless subscale in problem solving (0.75), orientation style (0.81), strategic intelligence or meta-cognition (0.83), trust in problem solving (0.85) and finally, behavioral intelligence increased the prediction ability to 0.859. Generally, forgiveness is highly influenced by emotional components and can have many practical implications in the therapeutic and educational fields.