Four measures
of forgiveness were all statistically associated with five measures
of health (physical
symptoms, medications used, sleep quality,
fatigue, and
somatic complaints).
The CSI - 24 differs from the 8 - item
somatic complaints scale
of the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach, 1991) in that it includes a broad range
of symptoms that represent the criteria for various somatoform disorders, as well as
symptoms representing the criteria for functional
somatic syndromes such as irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, and chronic
fatigue syndrome.