The Role of Self-Compassion in Buffering Symptoms of Depression in the General Population.

Self-compassion, typically operationalized as the total score of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS; Neff, 2003b), has been shown to be related to increased psychological well-being and lower depression in students of the social sciences, users of psychology websites and psychotherapy patients. The curr...

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Main Authors: Annett Körner, Adina Coroiu, Laura Copeland, Carlos Gomez-Garibello, Cornelia Albani, Markus Zenger, Elmar Brähler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4591980?pdf=render