Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 420 Jordan Hall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2012;25(5):543-58. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2011.608842. Epub 2011 Sep 6.
Self-compassion refers to having an accepting and caring orientation towards oneself. Although self-compassion has been studied primarily in healthy populations, one particularly compelling clinical context in which to examine self-compassion is social anxiety disorder (SAD). SAD is characterized by high levels of negative self-criticism as well as an abiding concern about others' evaluation of one's performance. In the present study, we tested the hypotheses that: (1) people with SAD would demonstrate less self-compassion than healthy controls (HCs), (2) self-compassion would relate to severity of social anxiety and fear of evaluation among people with SAD, and (3) age would be negatively correlated with self-compassion for people with SAD, but not for HC. As expected, people with SAD reported less self-compassion than HCs on the Self-Compassion Scale and its subscales. Within the SAD group, lesser self-compassion was not generally associated with severity of social anxiety, but it was associated with greater fear of both negative and positive evaluation. Age was negatively correlated with self-compassion for people with SAD, whereas age was positively correlated with self-compassion for HC. These findings suggest that self-compassion may be a particularly important target for assessment and treatment in persons with SAD.
自我同情是指对自己持接受和关爱的态度。虽然自我同情主要在健康人群中进行研究，但在社交焦虑障碍（SAD）这一特别引人注目的临床环境中，研究自我同情是很有必要的。SAD 的特征是高度的自我批评以及对他人对自己表现的评价的持久关注。在本研究中，我们检验了以下假设：（1）SAD 患者的自我同情程度低于健康对照组（HCs）；（2）自我同情与 SAD 患者的社交焦虑和对评价的恐惧程度有关；（3）年龄与 SAD 患者的自我同情呈负相关，而与 HCs 无关。正如预期的那样，SAD 患者在自我同情量表及其子量表上的自我同情程度低于 HCs。在 SAD 组中，较少的自我同情通常与社交焦虑的严重程度无关，但与对负面和正面评价的更大恐惧有关。年龄与 SAD 患者的自我同情呈负相关，而与 HCs 的自我同情呈正相关。这些发现表明，自我同情可能是 SAD 患者评估和治疗的一个特别重要的目标。
