Körner Annett, Coroiu Adina, Copeland Laura, Gomez-Garibello Carlos, Albani Cornelia, Zenger Markus, Brähler Elmar
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Louise-Granofsky-Psychosocial Oncology Program, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada; Psychosocial Oncology Program, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada.
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
PLoS One. 2015 Oct 2;10(10):e0136598. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136598. eCollection 2015.
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.
自我同情，通常通过自我同情量表（SCS；Neff，2003b）的总分来衡量，已被证明与社会科学专业学生、心理学网站用户和心理治疗患者的心理健康状况改善及抑郁程度降低有关。本研究以现有文献为基础，在一个代表德国普通人群的样本（n = 2404）中检验自我同情与抑郁症状之间的联系。自我评判、孤立和过度认同的SCS子量表，以及包含这三个负面子量表的“自我冷漠”综合得分，在没有任何抑郁症状、有任何抑郁综合征和患有重度抑郁症的个体子样本之间始终存在差异。自我友善、共通人性和正念等积极的SCS子量表对抑郁症状差异的贡献几乎可以忽略不计。然而，当合并为一个“自我同情综合得分”时，积极的SCS子量表显著调节了普通人群中“自我冷漠”与抑郁症状之间的关系。这表明自我同情有可能缓冲与抑郁相关的自我冷漠——为培养对自己的自我关怀、友善和宽容态度的干预措施提供了依据。
