The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (e) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (p) Volume 3, Issue 1, No.10, DIP: C03175V3I12015 http://www.ijip.in | October – December, 2015 © 2015 I S Mudgal, Tiwari G; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Self-Forgiveness and Life Satisfaction in People Living with HIV/AIDS Mudgal, S. 1 *, Tiwari, G. K. 2 ABSTRACT The basic goals of the present study were to explore the nature and patterns of relationship between self-forgiveness and life satisfaction of the participants diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and normal healthy persons with no reported chronic physical and/or mental health problems. A total of eighty participants comprising forty diagnosed HIV/AIDS adult patients aged 30 to 42 years (M = 35.50, SD = 4.77) and forty normal individuals aged 19 to 40 years (M =26.81, SD = 4.79) took part in the study whose self-forgiveness and life satisfaction were measured through standardized psychometric tools. The results of the present study demonstrated that the participants inflicted with HIV/AIDS had lower mean self-forgiveness score as compared to their normal counterparts. The same trend was found to be recurring again for the life satisfaction scores of HIV/AIDS and normal participants. The results of the study have been discussed in the light of current theoretical background of forgiveness, life satisfaction and chronic disease. The findings of the study have important implications for policy makers, health professionals, caregivers, students, researchers and administrators. Keywords: Self-forgiveness, Forgiveness, Life satisfaction, HIV/AID, Chronic illness. Forgiveness has become a popular topic of increasing interest to the researchers in the recent past. The researchers have laid emphasis on the multidimensional nature of forgiveness and the importance of both interpersonal as well as self-forgiveness (Enright & The Human Development Study Group, 1996), the self-forgiveness has still attracted comparatively little empirical attention. Most research programmes have tended to discuss the nature of self- forgiveness only within the context of interpersonal forgiveness theory (Tangney, Boone, & Dearing, 2005), making efforts to draw parallels between forgiveness of self and forgiveness of others. The researches have demonstrated that self-forgiveness is only weakly correlated, and in some studies unrelated to forgiveness of others (Mauger, Perry, Freeman, Grove, McBride, & McKinney, 1992; Thompson, Snyder, Hoffman, Michael, Rasmussen, Billings, Heinze, Neufeld, 1 Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Doctor Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Doctor Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar *Responding Author