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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| author | Annett Körner Adina Coroiu Laura Copeland Carlos Gomez-Garibello Cornelia Albani Markus Zenger Elmar Brähler |
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| description | 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 current study builds on the existing literature by examining the link between self-compassion and depressive symptomatology in a sample representative of the German general population (n = 2,404). The SCS subscales of self-judgment, isolation, and over-identification, and the "self-coldness", composite score, which encompass these three negative subscales, consistently differed between subsamples of individuals without any depressive symptoms, with any depressive syndromes, and with major depressive disorder. The contribution of the positive SCS subscales of self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness to the variance in depressive symptomatology was almost negligible. However, when combined to a "self-compassion composite", the positive SCS subscales significantly moderated the relationship between "self-coldness" and depressive symptoms in the general population. This speaks for self-compassion having the potential to buffer self-coldness related to depression--providing an argument for interventions that foster self-caring, kind, and forgiving attitudes towards oneself. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-215cf61c2dd8435d92e89df354f3311a2022-12-21T19:52:51ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-011010e013659810.1371/journal.pone.0136598The Role of Self-Compassion in Buffering Symptoms of Depression in the General Population.Annett KörnerAdina CoroiuLaura CopelandCarlos Gomez-GaribelloCornelia AlbaniMarkus ZengerElmar BrählerSelf-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 current study builds on the existing literature by examining the link between self-compassion and depressive symptomatology in a sample representative of the German general population (n = 2,404). The SCS subscales of self-judgment, isolation, and over-identification, and the "self-coldness", composite score, which encompass these three negative subscales, consistently differed between subsamples of individuals without any depressive symptoms, with any depressive syndromes, and with major depressive disorder. The contribution of the positive SCS subscales of self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness to the variance in depressive symptomatology was almost negligible. However, when combined to a "self-compassion composite", the positive SCS subscales significantly moderated the relationship between "self-coldness" and depressive symptoms in the general population. This speaks for self-compassion having the potential to buffer self-coldness related to depression--providing an argument for interventions that foster self-caring, kind, and forgiving attitudes towards oneself.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4591980?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Annett Körner Adina Coroiu Laura Copeland Carlos Gomez-Garibello Cornelia Albani Markus Zenger Elmar Brähler The Role of Self-Compassion in Buffering Symptoms of Depression in the General Population. PLoS ONE |
| title | The Role of Self-Compassion in Buffering Symptoms of Depression in the General Population. |
| title_full | The Role of Self-Compassion in Buffering Symptoms of Depression in the General Population. |
| title_fullStr | The Role of Self-Compassion in Buffering Symptoms of Depression in the General Population. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Role of Self-Compassion in Buffering Symptoms of Depression in the General Population. |
| title_short | The Role of Self-Compassion in Buffering Symptoms of Depression in the General Population. |
| title_sort | role of self compassion in buffering symptoms of depression in the general population |
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