Self-kindness when facing stress: The role of self-compassion, goal regulation, and support in college students’ well-being

The Effectiveness of a Brief Self-Compassion Intervention Program on Self-Compassion, Positive and Negative Affect and Life Satisfaction

“…In other words, that means that people who were trained in order to be more self-compassionate, having a non self-critical attitude and a positive perspective towards demanding and difficult situations seem to achieve a better life evaluation. This corroborates a plethora of previous evidence (Neely, et al, 2009;Seligowski, Miron, & Orcutt, 2014;Van Dam, Sheppard, Forsyth, & Earleywine, 2011;Wei, et al, 2011;Yang, 2016) suggesting that high self-compassion may lead to important life satisfaction benefits, which has also been tested and confirmed through recent intervention plans (Bluth, Roberson, & Gaylord, 2015;. However, although Smeets and colleagues' (2014) 3-week self-compassion intervention yielded increases in life satisfaction scores for both groups intervention and control group, this study did not find differences in life satisfaction scores for the control group that received no training.…”

“…There is strong evidence that self-compassion constitutes a factor predicting psychological well being and promoting positive mental health benefits (Neff, 2004;Smeets et al, 2014). Neely et al (2009) defined well-being as low stress, negative affect and high life satisfaction. More specifically, psychological well-being, based on Zessin's, Dickhauser 's, & Garbade's (2015) insightful meta-analysis, seems to be a key factor for the eudemonia of people leading to a meaningful life and functioning and revealed a strong correlation of self-compassion and psychological well-being.…”

“…A plurality of studies has concluded that self-compassion enhances and correlates with positive mind-states such as life satisfaction (Neely, et al, 2009;Seligowski, Miron, & Orcutt, 2014;Van Dam, Sheppard, Forsyth, & Earleywine, 2011;Wei, et al, 2011;Yang, 2016). More specifically, according to a recent study focusing on the role of self-compassion on life satisfaction and hope (Yang, Zhang, & Kou, 2016) and testing a sample of Chinese adults demonstrated that self-compassion indeed is positively associated with life satisfaction and added that hope plays a mediating role between self-compassion and life satisfaction.…”

Ruminasyon ve Yaşamda Anlamın Farklı Öz-anlayış Düzeylerine Göre İncelenmesi

“…As a result of analysis, it was found that there were significant differences between rumination and meaning in life in terms of self-compassion levels. Findings of this study are in parallel with previous studies examining self-compassion and rumination (Leary, Tate, Adams, Batts-Allen and Hancock, 2007;Neely, Schallert, Mohammed, Roberts and Chen, 2009). One of the reasons might be the preventive role of self-compassion.…”

Self-Compassion, Stress, and Coping in the Context of Chronic Illness

“…Self-compassion has been defined as a positive self-view that involves relating to oneself with kindness and acceptance in times of failure and difficulty (Neff, 2003b). A growing body of research has documented that self-compassion is linked to lower levels of perceived stress (Neely, Schallert, Mohammed, Roberts, & Chen, 2009;Sirois, 2014), and increased resilience in the face of stressful situations (Neff, Kirkpatrick, & Rude, 2007), including chronic illness (Brion, Leary, & Drabkin, 2014). In a recent theoretical review, Allen and Leary (2010) posited that selfcompassionate people may experience lower stress because of their use of effective coping strategies, but found limited and mixed support for the hypothesis that people high in selfcompassion prefer and use more adaptive, problem-focused coping styles and less maladaptive coping styles.…”