Positive, not negative, self‐compassion mediates the relationship between self‐esteem and well‐being

Pandey, Ruchi; Tiwari, Gyanesh Kumar; Parihar, Priyanka; Kumar, Pramod

doi:10.1111/papt.12259

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“…Indeed, Neff (2016) argued for a positive pole and a negative pole for self-compassion, which represents compassionate versus uncompassionate behaviour. A considerable amount of research has adopted, and found support for, the two-Autistic Traits and Self-Compassion 4 factor solution of self-compassion (e.g., Pandey, Tiwari, Parihar, & Rai, 2019;Stolow et al, 2016).…”

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A Preliminary Investigation Into the Relationship Between Autistic Traits and Self-Compassion

2020

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Self-compassion refers to the extension of kindness to oneself when faced with feelings of inadequacies, shortcomings or failures. It is possible that individuals high in autistic traits may encounter difficulties with self-compassion, and this could be particularly pronounced due to the social challenges they might face. To explore this potential relationship, we recruited university students and members of the general population to an online survey (n = 176). Participants completed measures on demographics, autistic traits, and self-compassion. We found that autistic traits were indeed negatively correlated with self-compassion in both males and females. Interestingly, a comparison of the slopes showed significantly stronger relationships in males compared to females for the negative (but not the positive) subscales of the self-compassion scale. Although speculative at this point, it is possible that self-compassion acts as a mediator between autistic traits and psychopathology. With this in mind, further work is warranted to determine whether self-compassion could be a target for therapeutic intervention.

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A Preliminary Investigation Into the Relationship Between Autistic Traits and Self-Compassion

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“…Gender differences in the acquisition of selfforgiveness, self-esteem and human flourishing of the participants may be due to the fact that the Indian society still carries large and perceptible gender disparities in the availability of various resources and opportunities (Ram et al, 2014). Similar findings regarding gender differences on these measures have also reported that suggested dissimilar availabilities of the socio-cultural and socialization patterns along with positive resources to cause such differences (Pandey et al, 2019(Pandey et al, , 2020.…”

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“…It has also been observed that self-esteem benefits individuals in two ways: enhanced initiative and pleasant feelings (Baumeister et al, 2003). Similarly, some other researchers have argued that higher self-esteem may increase the accessibility of psychological resources like self-compassion necessary for individuals to invest in forging self (Pandey et al, 2019;Strelan & Zdaniuk, 2015). Positive and higher selfesteem may also facilitate self-forgiveness and finally flourishing by helping the person to assess his/her role in causing pain to others and necessary steps to be undertaken to repair the damage caused by it (Fincham et al, 2005).…”

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Understanding the mediating role of self-esteem between the relationship of self- forgiveness and human flourishing

Tiwari

Pandey

Parihar

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Background: Intrapersonal resources are significant preditors of human flourishing. The study examined the mediating role of self-esteem between the relationship of self-forgiveness and human flourishing. Methods: A correlation research design was used. Two hundred and fourteen participants (M Age = 22.07(1.80)) comprising 100 males (M Age = 22.15(1.61)) and 114 females (M Age = 22.00(1.95)) were chosen as the participants by a convenience sampling. Self-esteem, self-forgiveness and human flourishing were measured with standardized tools. Results: The results showed significant interdependence among self-esteem, self-forgiveness and human flourishing as evident in their positive correlations. Self-esteem and self-forgiveness accounted for significant variability in human flourishing. These results are prerequisite condition to further carry out mediation analysis that showed self-esteem to emerge as a significant partial mediator between the relationships between self-forgiveness and human flourishing. Conclusions: Self-esteem represents self-worth and personal values that are essential ingredients to prepare a person to forgive himself/herself that, in turn, may cultivate positive affect and cognition leading one to achieve flourishing. Self-esteem helps to understand transgressing situations and the exact role of the various stakeholders. These positive attributions may have facilitated self-forgiveness and finally flourishing. It was evident that both self-esteem and self-forgiveness are relevant to understand human flourishing and the impacts of self-forgiveness are mediated by self-esteem. In essence, intrapersonal resources carry significance to enhance human flourishing. The findings represent a significant contribution to understanding the relationships among self-esteem, self-forgiveness and human flourishing.

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“…Maltby, Macaskill and Day (2001) have found that forgiveness is an important psychological construct to understand health and other significant life outcomes. For example, forgiveness has been observed to actuate internal harmony, positive emotions and cognitions, reparative vigour, empathy, well-being, positive health outcomes and useful relationships for both children and adults (Ahirwar et al, 2019;Pandey et al, 2019Pandey et al, , 2020.…”

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Understanding the Role of Some Demographic Factors and Forgiveness in Shaping the Flourishing of Hindu Married Couples

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Tiwari²,

Kumar³

2020

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Hindu Marriage is a sacrament that has been conceived to achieve a variety of worldly and spiritual goals. Some forms of hurt, untruthful or betrayal may involve in a marriage relationship that may significantly impact forgiveness behaviours of one or other member of married couples influencing their flourishing. The study examined the role of some biographic features, the forgiveness of self, others and situations in shaping the well-being of the married Hindu couples. Employing a correlational design, the study recruited 300 married Hindu couples with age ranging from 25 to 50 years by a snowball sampling. Forgiveness and well-being were measured with the help of The Heartland Forgiveness Scale (Thompson et al., 2005) and Mental Health Continuum (Keyes, 2005). The findings showed that education, age, domicile, occupation and years of marriage and the three types of forgiveness exhibited significant positive correlations with the indices of well-being whereas gender, number of children, nature of family (nuclear or joint), number of family members and socioeconomic status showed negative correlations with the same. Employment status and age emerged as the most significant predictors for hedonic and psychological well-being, respectively. Conversely, others forgiveness did the same for social and eudaimonic well-being and flourishing. Indian socio-cultural conditions, the conceptualization of Hindu marriage and relevant earlier studies have been used to discuss the findings. Some biographic attributes, inclination towards postmodern lifestyle and others forgiveness seem to shape the well-being outcomes of the married Hindu couples. Directions of future researchers have been discussed.

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Positive, not negative, self‐compassion mediates the relationship between self‐esteem and well‐being

Cited by 49 publications

References 49 publications

A Preliminary Investigation Into the Relationship Between Autistic Traits and Self-Compassion

A Preliminary Investigation Into the Relationship Between Autistic Traits and Self-Compassion

Understanding the mediating role of self-esteem between the relationship of self- forgiveness and human flourishing

Understanding the Role of Some Demographic Factors and Forgiveness in Shaping the Flourishing of Hindu Married Couples

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