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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Everett L. Worthington is affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Health, Sociology and Political Science, and Applied Psychology.

The main topics covered in Worthington's work include Forgiveness and Related Behaviors, Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health, Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, Optimism, Hope, and Well-being, Migration, Health and Trauma, Resilience and Mental Health, as well as Religion, Society, and Development.

Frequent publication venues for Worthington's research include:

  • Spirituality in Clinical Practice
  • Journal of Psychology and Theology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Examples of recent published papers are:

  • The role of Hope in subsequent health and well-being for older adults: An outcome-wide longitudinal approach (2020, Global Epidemiology)
  • Forgiveness of others and subsequent health and well-being in mid-life: a longitudinal study on female nurses (2020, BMC Psychology)
  • Guidelines and standards for the study of death and recalled experiences of death--a multidisciplinary consensus statement and proposed future directions (2022, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)
  • Psychological and spiritual outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective longitudinal study of adults with chronic disease (2021, Health Psychology)
  • Dynamics of Moral Repair: Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Restoration of Value Consensus as Interdependent Processes (2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Worthington include:

  • Richard G. Cowden
  • Zhuo Job Chen
  • Edward B. Davis
  • Tyler J. VanderWeele
  • Don E. Davis

Worthington's work has been recognized by their peers, including being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Interpersonal Forgiving in Close Relationships: II. Theoretical Elaboration and Measurement

    McCullough Me;Rachal Kc;Sandage Sj;Worthington El

  • Interpersonal forgiving in close relationships

    Michael E. McCullough;Everett L. Worthington Jr.;Kenneth C. Rachal

  • The Religious Commitment Inventory--10: Development, Refinement, and Validation of a Brief Scale for Research and Counseling.

    Everett L. Worthington Jr.;Nathaniel G. Wade;Terry L. Hight;Jennifer S. Ripley

  • Cultural humility: measuring openness to culturally diverse clients.

    Joshua N. Hook;Don E. Davis;Jesse Owen;Everett L. Worthington Jr.

  • Forgiveness is an emotion-focused coping strategy that can reduce health risks and promote health resilience: theory, review, and hypotheses

    Everett L. Worthington;Michael Scherer

  • Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Theory and Application

    Everett L. Worthington

  • Forgivingness, Vengeful Rumination, and Affective Traits

    Jack W. Berry;Everett L. Worthington;Lynn E. O'Connor;Les Parrott

  • Empirical research on religion and psychotherapeutic processes and outcomes: A 10-year review and research prospectus.

    Everett L. Worthington Jr.;Taro A. Kurusu;Michael E. McCollough;Steven J. Sandage

  • The psychology of unforgiveness and forgiveness and implications for clinical practice

    Everett L. Worthington;Nathaniel G. Wade

  • Forgiveness, Health, and Well-Being: A Review of Evidence for Emotional Versus Decisional Forgiveness, Dispositional Forgivingness, and Reduced Unforgiveness

    Everett L. Worthington;Charlotte Van Oyen Witvliet;Pietro Pietrini;Andrea J. Miller

  • Religion and the Forgiving Personality

    Michael E. McCullough;Everett L. Worthington

  • Handbook of Forgiveness

    Everett L. Worthington

  • Forgiveness and Justice: A Research Agenda for Social and Personality Psychology:

    Julie Juola Exline;Everett L. Worthington;Peter Hill;Michael E. McCullough

  • Dispositional Forgivingness: Development and Construct Validity of the Transgression Narrative Test of Forgivingness (TNTF)

    Jack W. Berry;Everett L. Worthington;Les Parrott;Lynn E. O’Connor

  • Forgivingness, relationship quality, stress while imagining relationship events, and physical and mental health.

    Jack W. Berry;Everett L. Worthington Jr.

  • Changes in supervision as counselors and supervisors gain experience: A review.

    Everett L. Worthington

  • The measurement of generalized self-efficacy: A study of construct validity.

    Robert M. Tipton;Everett L. Worthington

  • Efficacy of psychotherapeutic interventions to promote forgiveness: a meta-analysis.

    Nathaniel G. Wade;William T. Hoyt;Julia E. M. Kidwell;Everett L. Worthington Jr.

  • Thankful for the little things: A meta-analysis of gratitude interventions

    Don E. Davis;Elise Choe;Joel Meyers;Nathaniel Wade

  • GENDER AND FORGIVENESS: A META-ANALYTIC REVIEW AND RESEARCH AGENDA

    Andrea J. Miller;Everett L. Worthington;Michael A. McDaniel

  • Dimensions of forgiveness : psychological research & theological perspectives

    Everett L. Worthington

  • Religion and spirituality.

    Everett L. Worthington;Joshua N. Hook;Don E. Davis;Michael A. McDaniel

Frequent Co-Authors

Don E. Davis
Don E. Davis Georgia State University
Joshua N. Hook
Joshua N. Hook University of North Texas
Nathaniel G. Wade
Nathaniel G. Wade Iowa State University
Steven J. Sandage
Steven J. Sandage Boston University
John W. Berry
John W. Berry Queen's University
Michael E. McCullough
Michael E. McCullough University of California, San Diego
Loren L. Toussaint
Loren L. Toussaint Luther College
Kenneth G. Rice
Kenneth G. Rice Georgia State University
Shawn O. Utsey
Shawn O. Utsey Virginia Commonwealth University

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