The analyses revealed significant inter-correlations among Self-esteem and “Realization & Reparation dimension”, attribution as well as the total score of self-forgiveness. However, guilt did not yield significant correlation with Self-esteem. Similarly, positive and negative self-compassion differentially correlated with the dimensions of self-forgiveness. Positive self-compassion correlated positively and significantly with all the three dimensions of Self-forgiveness except Guilt whereas Negative Self-compassion followed an exactly opposite pattern of correlation. Correlation matrix also revealed that self-esteem correlated positively with both positive and negative self-compassion (see Table 1).
Mediation and Path Analyses
To investigate the mediating effect of positive and negative self-compassion between the relationship of self-esteem and self-forgiveness, a path model was constructed taking the positive and negative self-compassion as mediators (Figure 1).