Abstract

• The main purpose of this study was to investigate family forgiveness and subjective happiness of pre-service teachers from Sagaing University of Education. The study conducted a survey research design and quantitative method. As the research instruments, family forgiveness scale (Pollard M.W, 1998) and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Hills & Argyle, 2002) were applied. A total of 800 pre-service teachers (400 males and 400 females) were randomly selected from Sagaing University of Education. The results revealed that there were significant differences in family forgiveness by gender and grade. The family forgiveness of females was higher than the family forgiveness of males. The results showed that there was significant difference in family forgiveness by grade. Family forgiveness of the fifth year students was the highest among the four selected grades. Similarly, the results revealed that there were significant differences in subjective happiness according to gender and grade. The fifth year pre-service teachers from Sagaing University of Education were higher in family forgiveness and subjective happiness level than that from other three grades. The Pearson product-moment correlation result revealed that a positively significant relationship (r=0.768) was found between family forgiveness and subjective happiness. The results of this study revealed that fifth year pre-service teachers who have high family forgiveness may experience better subjective happiness level. Therefore, it was vital to emphasize the pre-service teachers' family forgiveness and subjective happiness.