The adjustment of prison inmates is recently becoming a social concern. In the current study we focused on the role of gratitude, interpersonal forgiveness, and anger, which have been widely addressed as likely to influence people’s health and adaptive behaviors, in shaping prison inmates’ psychological wellbeing and criminal attitudes. Participants were 104 male prison inmates aged between 24 and 75 (M_age = 46.63, SD = 11.38) imprisoned in Northern Italy who were asked to fill in an anonymous self-report questionnaire. Results highlighted that all dimensions considered play an important, albeit different and highly specific, role; Gratitude is a promotional factor that enhances psychological wellbeing, whereas interpersonal forgiveness appears to be a protective factor against the adoption of a criminal attitude as violence or antisocial intent. Finally, anger is a risk factor toward both psychological wellbeing and violent behaviors. Implications of these results and further developments of the study are discussed.

监狱服刑人员的适应问题最近成为社会关注的焦点。在当前的研究中，我们关注感恩、人际宽恕和愤怒的作用，这些已被广泛认为可能影响人们的健康和适应行为，在塑造监狱囚犯的心理健康和犯罪态度方面。参与者为 104 名年龄在 24 至 75 岁之间的男性监狱囚犯（M_年龄 = 46.63，SD = 11.38) 被关押在意大利北部，他们被要求填写一份匿名的自我报告问卷。结果强调，考虑到的所有方面都发挥着重要的作用，尽管作用不同且高度具体；感恩是增强心理健康的促进因素，而人际宽恕似乎是防止将犯罪态度转化为暴力或反社会意图的保护因素。最后，愤怒是心理健康和暴力行为的风险因素。讨论了这些结果的意义和研究的进一步发展。