Diary Study: the Protective Role of Self-Compassion on Stress-Related Poor Sleep Quality

Hu, Yueqin; Wang, Yuyin; Sun, Yifang; Arteta-Garcia, Javier; Purol, Stephanie M.

doi:10.1007/s12671-018-0939-7

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“…We found a medium correlation between self-compassion and subjective sleep quality (r = 0.303; can be converted to d = 0.636). The present review is limited because our review only focused on our own research and did not include previously published correlational research articles [31][32][33]. However, the previously reported range of the SC-SQ correlations (rs = 0.23 to 0.40) is comparable to the effect size in this meta-analysis.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Theoretically, a self-compassionate attitude should buffer against these key variables, as it reduces physiological arousal as well as processes maintaining hyperarousal long after the actual stressor has vanished (e.g., rumination). Recent empirical evidence stemming from cross-sectional data further corroborates the link between self-compassion and subjective sleep quality [31][32][33]. Furthermore, previous meta-analytical work has consistently confirmed positive correlations between self-compassion and mental health, for example in self-reports on life satisfaction, well-being, self-confidence, optimism, curiosity, gratitude, and social involvement (r = 0.47) [34].…”

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confidence: 70%

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The Relationship between Self-Compassion and Sleep Quality: An Overview of a Seven-Year German Research Program

Butz

Stahlberg

2020

Behavioral Sciences

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Poor sleep quality is highly prevalent in modern societies and negatively linked to various health outcomes. While previous research has demonstrated preliminary evidence for self-compassion as a tool for improving sleep quality, this review provides a meta-analysis of respective published and unpublished results of our own research group using German samples. A total of nine studies are included (N = 956 participants), consisting of both correlational and experimental data. Across these studies, there was a medium correlation between self-compassion and subjective sleep quality, r = 0.303, 95% CI (0.244; 0.360). In three experimental studies, a small increase in participants’ self-reported sleep quality emerged, in comparison to control conditions, Hedges’ s g = 0.484, 95% CI (0.148; 0.821). Limitations on study level concern both the small sample sizes and short-term analyses of intervention effects. As a conclusion, this review supports both the correlational and causal relationship between self-compassion and increased subjective sleep quality across diverse operationalizations and samples. Future research should focus on the moderating effects of intervention type, duration of intervention effects, and type of target population.

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The Relationship between Self-Compassion and Sleep Quality: An Overview of a Seven-Year German Research Program

Butz

Stahlberg

2020

Behavioral Sciences

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“…Therefore, the widely used, valid and reliable Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (Buysse et al, 1989) was chosen as measurement of sleep quality. Factors such as mindfulness (Lau et al, 2018) and self-compassion (Hu et al, 2018), which both may relate to sleep, were not assessed in the present study as other factors (e.g., resilience) that may counteract stress, were included. The decision to keep the questionnaire as short as possible was also based on research showing an inverse relationship between questionnaire length and response rate (Galesic and Bosnjak, 2009).…”

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Unique Predictors of Sleep Quality in Junior Athletes: The Protective Function of Mental Resilience, and the Detrimental Impact of Sex, Worry and Perceived Stress

2019

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Since athletic development and functioning are heavily dependent on sufficient recuperation, sleep in athletes is becoming a topic of increasing interest. Still, existing scientific evidence points to inadequate sleep in athletes, especially in females. This may be due to the fact that sleep is vulnerable to disturbances caused by stress and cognitive and emotional reactions to stress, such as worry and negative affect, which may exacerbate and prolong the stress response. Such disturbing factors are frequently experienced by junior athletes aiming for performance development and rise in the rankings, but may be damaging to athletic progression. Based on limited research in non-athletic samples, mental resilience may protect individuals against the detrimental effects of stress on sleep. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the extent to which sex, mental resilience, emotional (negative affect) and cognitive (worry) reactions to stress, and perceived stress, uniquely contributed to sleep quality in a cross-sectional study including 632 junior athletes. A multiple hierarchical linear regression showed that females had poorer sleep quality than males, while the mental resilience sub-components Social Resources and Structured Style were positively associated with sleep quality, providing a protective function and thus preventing sleep quality from deteriorating. Simultaneously, worry, as well as perceived stress, were negatively associated with sleep quality. Together, the independent variables explained 28% of the variance in sleep quality. A dominance analysis showed that perceived stress had the largest relative relationship with sleep quality. Based on these results, close attention should be paid to athletes’ abilities to manage worry and perceived stress, and the potential of mental resilience as a protective factor that could prevent sleep from deteriorating. The latter might be especially relevant for female athletes. Since performance margins are progressively becoming smaller and smaller, every improvement that adequate sleep can provide will be beneficial in terms of improved functioning and athletic performance.

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“…Thus, we examined whether burnout mediated the relationship between self-compassion and job satisfaction expecting that self-compassion would only predict job satisfaction because of its association with burnout. We then explored the relationships that these constructs have with self-reported sleep quality because of the evidence that sleep quality is associated with selfcompassion (e.g., Hu, Wang, Sun, Arteta-Garcia, & Purol, 2018). Whereas Hu et al (2018) found that selfcompassion was associated with better sleep quality via reduced stress, we expected that self-compassion would be associated with higher perceived sleep quality as mediated by reduced symptoms of burnout.…”

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The Intermediary Role of Burnout in the Relationship Between Self-Compassion and Job Satisfaction Among Nurses

Vaillancourt

Wasylkiw

2019

Can J Nurs Res

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Background Self-compassion is the process of treating oneself kindly especially when suffering. Self-compassion is associated with decreased symptoms of burnout in nurses such that those high in self-compassion are less likely to report emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment. Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among self-compassion, burnout, job satisfaction, and sleep quality. Method and Participants: Recruited from MTurk, a final sample of 158 nurses living in the United States (57.6% female) completed indices of self-compassion, burnout, and outcomes of satisfaction and sleep via an online survey. Results Self-compassion was positively associated with satisfaction and sleep quality and negatively associated with burnout. In addition, increased burnout was associated with lower satisfaction and poorer sleep quality. Mediational models suggested that the relationships between self-compassion and outcomes were accounted for by the shared variance between self-compassion and burnout. Conclusions The results showed the predicted associations among self-compassion, burnout, and outcomes. Importantly, self-compassion was associated with lower burnout that, in turn, was associated with higher job satisfaction and better sleep. Despite the limitations of the study, these results add to the growing literature on the benefits of self-compassion for nurses for preventing and/or ameliorating symptoms of burnout.

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Diary Study: the Protective Role of Self-Compassion on Stress-Related Poor Sleep Quality

Cited by 45 publications

References 41 publications

The Relationship between Self-Compassion and Sleep Quality: An Overview of a Seven-Year German Research Program

The Relationship between Self-Compassion and Sleep Quality: An Overview of a Seven-Year German Research Program

Unique Predictors of Sleep Quality in Junior Athletes: The Protective Function of Mental Resilience, and the Detrimental Impact of Sex, Worry and Perceived Stress

The Intermediary Role of Burnout in the Relationship Between Self-Compassion and Job Satisfaction Among Nurses

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