Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Clin Psychol Rev. 2012 Aug;32(6):545-52. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2012.06.003. Epub 2012 Jun 23.
Compassion has emerged as an important construct in studies of mental health and psychological therapy. Although an increasing number of studies have explored relationships between compassion and different facets of psychopathology there has as yet been no systematic review or synthesis of the empirical literature. We conducted a systematic search of the literature on compassion and mental health. We identified 20 samples from 14 eligible studies. All studies used the Neff Self Compassion Scale (Neff, 2003b). We employed meta-analysis to explore associations between self-compassion and psychopathology using random effects analyses of Fisher's Z correcting for attenuation arising from scale reliability. We found a large effect size for the relationship between compassion and psychopathology of r=-0.54 (95% CI=-0.57 to -0.51; Z=-34.02; p<.0001). Heterogeneity was significant in the analysis. There was no evidence of significant publication bias. Compassion is an important explanatory variable in understanding mental health and resilience. Future work is needed to develop the evidence base for compassion in psychopathology, and explore correlates of compassion and psychopathology.
同情已成为心理健康和心理治疗研究中的一个重要概念。尽管越来越多的研究探讨了同情与不同心理病理方面之间的关系，但迄今为止，还没有对同情与心理健康的实证文献进行系统的综述或综合分析。我们对关于同情和心理健康的文献进行了系统的检索。我们从 14 项合格研究中确定了 20 个样本。所有研究都使用了 Neff 自我同情量表 (Neff, 2003b)。我们采用元分析方法，使用 Fisher's Z 随机效应分析来校正因量表可靠性而产生的衰减，探索自我同情与心理病理学之间的关联。我们发现同情与心理病理学之间的关系具有较大的效应大小，r=-0.54（95%置信区间=-0.57 至 -0.51；Z=-34.02；p<.0001）。分析中存在显著的异质性。没有证据表明存在显著的发表偏倚。同情是理解心理健康和韧性的一个重要解释变量。需要进一步的研究来为心理病理学中的同情提供证据基础，并探讨同情和心理病理学的相关性。
