The Relationship between Forgiveness and degrees of Anxiety among the Parents of Execeptional and Ordinary Children

In the last decade, there have been numerous researches into forgiveness and its effects on mental health. All researches have shown that forgiveness have some direct effects on mental health.
In this research work, the researcher seeks to investigate the extent to which forgiveness can decrease anxiety among parents of gifted and ordinary children. In addition, he aims to study the difference in the degree of anxiety and the extent of forgiveness parents show to their children.
Using the random sampling of 36 of the parents of gifted children and 36 of the parents of ordinary children from among the resident parents in Nehbanda¦n, a town near Birjand, the researcher put the Enright's Forgiveness Inventory, and `Spilberger's State - Trait Anxiety Inventory' and his colleagues, to test.
The analysis of the collected data showed that there is a significantly negative correlation between the extent of a ûforgiveness‎ and level of anxiety both the parents of gifted and ordinary children feel about their children.
It also revealed the fact that parents of the ordinary children showed more forgiveness to their children than the parents of the gifted children, while the parents of the gifted children were more anxious about their children than those of the ordinary ones.