The experience and meaning of compassion and self-compassion for individuals with depression or anxiety

Pauley, Gerard; McPherson, Susan

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“…As in the nonclinical population [51], being fearful of compassion from others, is highly correlated with being fearful of being self-compassionate (r=.75). This is consistent with qualitative research reporting that depressed individuals find it difficult to imagine receiving compassion from others or being selfcompassionate especially when they are in the state of depression [16,[77][78][79]. So there seems to be a general block and fear of compassion, be it coming from other people or oneself.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…For example, further research is needed to understand how these fears operate, how they may vary from person to person, therefore requiring different therapeutic interventions. There is qualitative data to suggest that although depressed patients understand the value of compassion and would like to develop it for themselves, they fear compassion and feel they don't deserve it and are unable to generate or receive it [77]. It could be argued that fears of compassion and affiliative emotions could be treated therapeutically in much the same as any other emotion (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Fears of Compassion in a Depressed Population Implication for Psychotherapy

Gilbert

McEwan²,

Catarino³

et al. 2014

J Depress Anxiety

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Fears of Compassion in a Depressed Population Implication for Psychotherapy

Gilbert

McEwan²,

Catarino³

et al. 2014

J Depress Anxiety

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“…Future research could explore more of this area of study. Neuroticism predicted self-compassion negatively in both samples, supporting past findings of the association of neuroticism in general (krieger et al 2013;neff 2003a;neff et al 2007b;Pauley & mcPherson 2010;PhilliPs & ferguson 2013;raes 2010;shaPira & mongrain 2010;Terry et al 2012). Results showed that self-compassionate seminarians and non-seminarians could experience lower levels of neuroticism.…”

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confidence: 84%

Personality and Self-Compassion: Exploring Their Relationship in an Indian Context

Thurackal¹,

Corveleyn²,

Dezutter³

2016

EJMH

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The present study examines the relationship between personality and self-compassion among Indian emerging adults. Two samples of emerging adult males (N 1 = 494 Catholic seminarians, N 2 = 504 Catholic non-seminarians) completed the Big Five Inventory, the Honesty-Humility Subscale of HEXACO and the Self-Compassion Scale-Short Form. Primarily, we examined the mean-level differences for Big Five factors, honesty-humility and self-compassion between the samples and found that mean-levels were higher for seminarians except for neuroticism. Therefore, we treated the samples separately for further analyses. Secondly, we examined the associations between personality factors of the Big Five, honesty-humility and self-compassion. Consciousness, agreeableness and extraversion were positively associated with self-compassion. Neuroticism had a large negative correlation with self-compassion. Openness to experience had a medium positive relationship with self-compassion among seminarians and a small positive relationship among emerging adult non-seminarians. A medium positive association was found between honesty-humility and self-compassion. Thirdly, we examined the impact of personality factors on self-compassion. Self-compassion was significantly and positively predicted by agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience and honesty-humility for seminarians and by extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness for non-seminarians. Neuroticism was a significant negative predictor of self-compassion for both samples. European Journal of Mental Health 11 (2016) 18-35 DOI: 10.5708/EJMH.11.2016.1-2

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“…Each one of these three components has a negative respective value (Self-judgment, Isolation and Over-identification correspondingly). There is a growing number of researchers that link self-compassion to psychological health, while others, relate self-compassion with less anxiety and depression [27,62,63,64]. The Self-compassion questionnaire is comprised of 26 items, from which 6 subscale scores (previously reported) are computed by calculating the mean of subscale item responses.…”

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Personality, emotional intelligence and work preferences in software engineering: An empirical study

Kosti

Feldt

Angelis

2014

Information and Software Technology

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Context: There is an increasing awareness among Software Engineering (SE) researchers and practitioners that more focus is needed on understanding the engineers developing software. Previous studies show significant associations between the personalities of software engineers and their work preferences.Objective: Various studies on personality in SE have found large, small or no effects and there is no consensus on the importance of psychometric measurements in SE. There is also a lack of studies employing other psychometric instruments or using larger datasets. We aim to evaluate our results in a larger sample, with software engineers in an earlier state of their career, using advanced statistics.Method: An operational replication study where extensive psychometric data from 279 master level students have been collected in a SE program at a Swedish University. Personality data based on the Five-Factor Model, Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire and Self-compassion have been collected. Statistical analysis investigated associations between psychometrics and work preferences and the results were compared to our previous findings from 47 SE professionals.Results: Analysis confirms existence of two main clusters of software engineers; one with more "intense" personalities than the other. This corroborates our earlier results on SE professionals. The student data also show similar associations between personalities and work preferences. However, for other associations there are differences due to the different population of subjects. We also found connections between the emotional intelligence and work preferences, while no associations were found for self-compassion. Conclusion:The associations can help managers to predict and adapt projects and tasks to available staff. The results also show that the Emotional Intelligence instrument can be predictive. The research methods and analytical tools we employ can detect subtle associations and reflect differences between different groups and populations and thus can be important tools for future research as well as industrial practice.

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The experience and meaning of compassion and self-compassion for individuals with depression or anxiety

Cited by 160 publications

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Fears of Compassion in a Depressed Population Implication for Psychotherapy

Fears of Compassion in a Depressed Population Implication for Psychotherapy

Personality and Self-Compassion: Exploring Their Relationship in an Indian Context

Personality, emotional intelligence and work preferences in software engineering: An empirical study

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