Translations & Adaptations
The Heartland Forgiveness Scale has been translated into many languages. Below are links to those translations and their authors. If you have translated the HFS into another language, please click the link below to submit information about your translation. When citing a translation of the HFS, please be sure to credit the translator(s) and to cite the original HFS.
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ARABIC
Mariam Al-Ziadat, PhD
Professor Assistant, Jordan University
mariamalziadat_76@yahoo.com, m.ziadat@ju.edu.jo
*Note that a 5-point scale is used (versus the original 7-point scale) because it is more acceptable in a Jordanian environment.
Traditional Chinese
Hsiao Shu-Chien 蕭舒謙 (First Author)
cindy272021@gmail.com
Wu Hsiang-Yi 吳相儀 (Corresponding Author)
Associate Professor Department of Psychology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
shine@kmu.edu.tw
Development and Validation of the Chinese-Version Heartland Forgiveness Scale (abstract)
Traditional Chinese
Sze-Yu Kuo
National Taiwan University, Department of Psychology
szeyu.kuo@gmail.com
Yi-Wen Kung
Fo Guang University, Department of Psychology
yykung@gm.fgu.edu.tw
Filipino
Charles Edward Florendo, MD
University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Manila, Philippines
FVHFS@yahoo.com
Florendo, C. G., Maglonzo, E.I. & Guizon-Bautista, T.T. (2013) A Validation Study of the Filipino Heartland Forgiveness Scale. The Filipino Family Physician, Volume 5 (No. 3), p139-143.
GREEK
Despina Moraitou, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
chara333@hol.gr
HINDI
Gyanesh Kumar Tiwari, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Dr. Hari Singh Gour University (A Central University), Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India
gyaneshpsychology@gmail.com
Indian Adaptation
(Organizational Settings)
Rinki Dahiya, PhD
Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
rinkidahiya36@gmail.com
Dahiya, R., & Rangnekar, S. (2018). Forgiveness in Indian organizations: A revisit of the heartland forgiveness scale. Current Psychology, 1-18.
Indonesian
Tiffany Chandra
Student majoring Psychology, Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia
tiffanychan6789.tc@gmail.com
Indonesian
Julia Suleeman, MA, MA, PhD
Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia
julia.suleeman@ui.ac.id
Zivana Sabili
Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia
zivana.sabili@gmail.com
*Note that a 4-point scale is used (versus the original 7-point scale)
ITALIAN
Simone Consoli
Clinical Psychologist, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Psychology Research Laboratory
s.consoli@auxologico.it
Consoli, S., Rossi, A., Thompson, L. Y., Volpi, C., Mannarini, S., Castelnuovo, G., & Molinari, E. (2020). Assessing psychometric properties of the italian version of the heartland forgiveness scale. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 596501.
Japanese
Aya Osanai
Showa Women’s University
Masato Furukawa
Showa Women’s University
Osanai, A., & Furukawa, M. (2005). Development of a Japanese version of the heartland forgiveness scale. Annual Bulletin of Psychological Studies, Showa Women’s University, 8, 51-57.
Korean
Hyun-Gi Hong, Jung-Eun Lee
Department of Forensic Psychology, National Forensic Service
Hyun-Gi Hong, Jin-Kyung Kim, Kyu-Heon Kang, Soo-Mi Lee, Myoung-Ho Hyun
Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University
Hong, H. G., Lee, J. E., Kim, J. K., Kang, K. H., Lee, S. M., & Hyun, M. H. (2016). Validation Study of the Korean Heartland Forgiveness Scale (K-HFS). Korean J Health Psychol, 21, 607-621.
Lithuanian
Radvilė Ražauskaitė
LCC International University
rrazaus12@students.lcc.lt
PERSIAN
Muhammad Ebrahimi
Department of Psychology, University of Kurdistan
Ebrahimi, M., Azkhosh, M., Shoaai, F., Froughan, M., & Dolatshahi, B. (2017). Psychometric properties of Persian version of Heartland Forgiveness Scale in elderly. Iranian Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 3(4), 9-20.
Persian
Farshad Lavafpoor Noori
Counseling Department, Tarbiat Moallem University, Karaj, Tehran, Iran
Lavafpoorf@yahoo.com
PERSIAN
Amir Hossein Goudarzian
Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
amir_sari@yahoo.com
Polish
Kinga Kaleta, PhD & Justyna Mróz, PhD
Institut of Pedagogy and Psychology, The Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland
k_kaleta@wp.pl
Kaleta, K., Mróz, J., & Guzewicz, M. (2016). Polska adaptacja Skali Przebaczenia–heartland forgiveness scale [polish adaptation of the heartland forgiveness scale]. Przegląd Psychologiczny, 59(4), 387-402.
Portuguese
(Brazilian)
Gabriela Veiga Alano Rodrigues
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
gabik.rodrigues@hotmail.com
Irani Iracema de Lima Argimon
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Portuguese
(European)
Fabio Ikedo, MD, MSc
Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto
fikedo@hotmail.com
PORTUGUESE (EUROPEAN) HFS
Ikedo, F., Castro, L., Fraguas, S., Rego, F., & Nunes, R. (2020). Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the European Portuguese version of the heartland forgiveness scale. Health and quality of life outcomes, 18(1), 1-9.
Mgr Veronika Chlebcová
Pan-European University, Faculty of Psychology, Tomášikova 20, Bratislava 821 02, Slovakia
v.chlebcova@gmail.com
Mgr Katarína Greškovičová, PhD
Pan-European University, Faculty of Psychology, Tomášikova 20, Bratislava 821 02, Slovakia
Spanish
Laura Y Thompson, PhD
laurathompson.phd@gmail.com
BA Esther Jasqui Metta
Integrative Personalist Psychology
estherjatid@gmail.com
Marcelo José Villarreal Coindreau, PhD
Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Anáhuac México, Mexico
majovicoin@gmail.com
Spanish
(8-Item Adaptation)
Karla Gallo-Giunzioni
Faculty of Education and Psychology, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria
se.vfu@ollag.alrak
A short version (8-item) Spanish Adaptation of the HFS with different scale structure.
Gallo-Giunzioni, K., Prieto-Ursúa, M., Fernández-Belinchón, C., & Luque-Reca, O. (2021). Measuring forgiveness: Psychometric properties of the Heartland Forgiveness Scale in the Spanish population. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(1), 45.
SWEDISH
Barbro Holm Ivarsson, MSc
Lic Psychologist
barbro.holm-ivarsson@telia.com
Anne H Berman, PhD
Professor, Clinical Psychology
Dept. of Psychology, Uppsala University
anne.h.berman@psyk.uu.se
Tagalog
Patricia Geneva Windelband & Rachelle Ann Casis
Assumption College San Lorenzo, Makati, Philippines
patricia.geneva@yahoo.com
Thai
Ruck Chunhakan
Counseling Psychology, Stinakarintravirot University, Thailand
ruck_chun@hotmail.com
Turkish
ASLI BUGAY
Research Assistant, Department of Educational Sciences, Division of Psychological Counseling and Guidance
Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey
bugay@metu.edu.tr
Bugay, A., Demir, A., & Delevi, R. (2012). Assessment of Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Version of Heartland Forgiveness Scale. Psychological Reports, 111(2), 575-584.
Urdu
Riffat Sadiq PhD
Institute of Clinical Psychology, University of Karachi, Pakistan
Project Director, Drug Free Nation, Pakistan
dfn.pak@gmail.com
Urdu
Muhammad Mussaffa Butt, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, GC University, Lahore, Pakistan
mussaffa@gmail.com, mussaffa@gcu.edu.pk
Urdu
Raisa Zubair & Rukhsana Kausar, PhD
Institute of Applied Psychology, University of the Punjab, Lahore-Pakistan