ABSTRACT
Objective: To explore the relationship between interpersonal forgiveness and revenge and some influential factors in college students. Methods: Rumination Scale,Empathy Scale, Tendency to Forgive Scale and Revenge Motivation Scale were administered to 194 college students. Results and Conclusion: ① There were significant gender differences in the degree of seeking revenge and rumination. ② Most of interpersonal transgression indeed happened between fellow students. ③ Correlation analysis showed significantly negative correlation between forgiving and hurtfulness, revenge motivations, rumination, and between revenging and tendency to forgive, empathy; and positive correlation between forgiving and empathy and between revenging and revenge motivation, hurtfulness. Further regression analysis revealed that revenge motivations, rumination and empathy were significant negative predictors of forgiving; hurtfulness and revenge motivations were significant positive predictors of revenging.