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  • Interpersonal forgiveness is crucial for relationship maintenance.
  • Practices like mindfulness and implementation planning may foster forgiveness.
  • Understanding motives and techniques promoting forgiveness is essential.

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  • To investigate mindfulness and implementation planning as facilitators of interpersonal forgiveness.
  • To examine motives and techniques promoting self-reported and behavioral forgiveness.
  • To assess the impact of mindful breathing and implementation planning on mood and forgiveness post-transgression.

Main Methods:

  • Young adults (N=80) participated in a study involving a standardized, undisclosed interpersonal transgression.
  • Participants received training in either mindful breathing or implementation planning ('if-then' statements).
  • Mood, self-reported forgiveness, and behavioral forgiveness were assessed post-transgression.

Main Results:

  • Both mindfulness and implementation planning training improved participants' mood following the transgression.
  • Mindful breathing demonstrated the greatest benefit, enhancing positive attitudes toward forgiveness.
  • Mindful breathing significantly promoted both self-reported and behavioral forgiveness.

Conclusions:

  • Mindful breathing and implementation planning are effective interventions for managing negative affect after interpersonal transgressions.
  • Mindful breathing appears particularly effective in fostering interpersonal forgiveness, including behavioral change.
  • Findings support the integration of mindfulness and planning strategies in therapeutic contexts to improve relational outcomes.