Abstract—The aim of this study is to describe
forgivenessand the factors contribute to it in wives experiencing domestic
violence who choose to save their marriages in UPT-P2TP2A
Kota Bandung. Descriptive method was employed in this study
with 15 participants as the subjects. The data were gathered
through
forgiveness measurement adopted and based in the
forgiveness theory proposed by McCullough. Its reliability
score was 0,721. The results of the study revealed that 73, 3%
of domestic violence victims who insist to save their marriages
did forgive or gave for
forgiveness. Among the factors
determine the forgiveness, the low
Rumination factor as well as
high personal and moral commitment, encouraged a wife to
forgive.
Forgiveness showed by a wife, in some way impacted
on the domestic violence doer. It lessened the intensity of the
violence.
Index Terms—Forgiveness, domestic violence.
Dewi Sartika is with the Bandung Islamic University, Indonesia (e-mail:
dsartk@yahoo.com).
[PDF]
Cite: Dewi Sartika and Nur Fadilah Amalia, " Forgiveness in Wives Experiencing Domestic Violence," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 238-241, 2014.