University of Arizona, USA.
Psychol Sci. 2012 Mar;23(3):261-9. doi: 10.1177/0956797611429466. Epub 2012 Jan 26.
Divorce is a highly stressful event, and much remains to be learned about the factors that promote psychological resilience when marriages come to an end. In this study, divorcing adults (N = 109) completed a 4-min stream-of-consciousness recording about their marital separation at an initial laboratory visit. Four judges rated the degree to which participants exhibited self-compassion (defined by self-kindness, an awareness of one's place in shared humanity, and emotional equanimity) in their recordings. Judges evidenced considerable agreement in their ratings of participants' self-compassion, and these ratings demonstrated strong predictive utility: Higher levels of self-compassion at the initial visit were associated with less divorce-related emotional intrusion into daily life at the start of the study, and this effect persisted up to 9 months later. These effects held when we accounted for a number of competing predictors. Self-compassion is a modifiable variable, and if our findings can be replicated, they may have implications for improving the lives of divorcing adults.
离婚是一件压力极大的事情，对于婚姻结束时促进心理适应力的因素，我们仍有许多需要学习。在这项研究中，离婚的成年人（N=109）在初次实验室访问时完成了一项关于他们婚姻分离的 4 分钟意识流记录。四位评判员根据自我宽容度（自我仁慈、对自己在共同人性中的位置的意识以及情绪平静来定义）对参与者的记录进行评分。评判员在对参与者自我宽容度的评分中表现出相当大的一致性，这些评分具有很强的预测效用：初次访问时自我宽容度越高，与离婚相关的情绪侵入日常生活的程度就越低，这种影响持续到研究开始后 9 个月。当我们考虑到许多竞争预测因素时，这些效果仍然存在。自我宽容是一个可改变的变量，如果我们的发现可以被复制，它们可能对改善离婚成年人的生活产生影响。
