The comparison of forgiveness, aggression and social well-being among healthy individuals and people with social phobia and narcissism

The aim of this research was the comparison of forgiveness, aggression and social well-being among among healthy individuals and people with social phobia and narcissism. The research was kind of causal-comparative and it`s sample was composed of 90 people (30 people with social phobia, 30 narcissistic and 30 healthy individuals) that were selected by convenient sampling method. Research tool included Social Phobia Inventory (Connor etal, 2000), Narcissistic Personality Inventory (Raskin & Terry, 1998), Forgiveness Questionnaire (Saffarinia & Mafakheri, 1390), Ahwaz Aggression Scale (Zahedifar, Najarian & Shokrkone, 1379) and Social Well-being Scale (Keyes, 1998). For analyzing data was used of multivariate variance analysis. The results indicated that healthy individuals experienced higher forgiveness and social well-being and lower aggression than narcissistic individuals and people with social phobia. According to the research results, exhibiting educational workshops and considering therapeutic techniques in psychological interventions is recommended for inhancing forgiveness and social well-being and decreasing aggression in narcissistic individuals and people with social phobia.