Role of Self-defeating Interpersonal Style and Forgiveness in Mental Health Among Adults

The self-defeating interpersonal style scale (SELF-DISS) is a new measure developed by Atkinson (2017). SELF-DISS is found to predict depression over and above Big-5 traits (Atkinson et al.,2019). Very few researches are available related to SELF-DISS in the current scenario. So, the current study aims to find out the relationship between Self-defeating interpersonal style, Forgiveness, and mental health. A sample of 121 participants of ages between 15 to 35 years was selected and all the participants filled out the Self-defeating Interpersonal Style, Heartland Forgiveness Scale (HFS), and General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12). The data was collected using Google forms. Findings revealed that Self-defeating interpersonal style is negatively related to the subscales of HFS and positively related to GHQ-12. Self-forgiveness and Situational forgiveness both are found to be correlated negatively with the GHQ-12. Additionally, the moderating and mediating effect of forgiveness was analyzed between Self-defeating interpersonal style and mental health. Results showed that forgiveness does not significantly moderate the relationship between self-defeating interpersonal style and mental health but forgiveness mediates this relationship.