Role of Failure to Forgive of Self, Others & Uncontrollable Situations in Predicting Depression among Elderly

Elderly people experience the many resentments that Inability to forgive of this resentments resources may be associated with depressive symptoms. Hence present study Examined the relationships between forgiveness of self, others and Uncontrollable situations with Depression in Late Life. present research is a cross- section & correlation study. The populations of the study were all elderly of Jahandidegan homes in Tehran City. Participants were 96 of elder people, which were selected via convenient sampling & completed Heartland Forgiveness Scale (HFS) & Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation & multivariate regression through stepwise method. the results revealed that there is a negative and meaningful relationship between forgiveness of self (r=-.32, p<0/01), forgiveness of others (r=-.25, p<0/05) & forgiveness of uncontrollable situations (r= -.38, p<0/01) with depression in elderly. Also forgiveness of uncontrollable situations (β= -.33) & forgiveness of self (β= -.26) have more determinant role to covering predicted variable (p<0/01). Inability to forgive is associated with psychological vulnerability among the elderly and recommended that therapeutic models of enhancing forgiveness be considered for the emotional problems of elderly people.