Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany.
Yale University, USA.
J Affect Disord. 2018 Jan 15;226:220-226. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2017.10.006. Epub 2017 Oct 2.
Self-compassion has recently been discussed as an effective affect regulation strategy for reducing negative affective states. The primary aim of the current study was to compare the efficacy of self-compassion to the more established strategies of acceptance and reappraisal.
For this purpose, we induced depressed mood in formerly, currently and never depressed individuals (n=30 each) at four different time-points. Participants were instructed to regulate their emotions after each mood induction by either waiting, employing self-compassion, accepting their emotions or reappraising the situation. Level of depressed mood was assessed before and after each mood induction and regulation phase.
Across groups, decreases in depressed mood were greater in the self-compassion compared to the waiting and acceptance conditions. In recovered and never depressed participants, self-compassion was also more effective than reappraisal.
Our results rely solely on self-report data.
Our finding that self-compassion is superior to acceptance and equally or more effective than reappraisal encourages future research on how self-compassion interventions can be used to enhance the efficacy and stability of current depression treatments.
自我同情最近被讨论为一种有效的情感调节策略，可减少消极的情感状态。本研究的主要目的是比较自我同情与更成熟的接受和重新评价策略的效果。
为此，我们在四个不同的时间点分别对以前、现在和从未抑郁的个体（每组 30 人）诱发抑郁情绪。在每次情绪诱发后，参与者被指示通过等待、运用自我同情、接受情绪或重新评价情况来调节情绪。在每次情绪诱发和调节阶段之前和之后，都评估了抑郁情绪的水平。
在所有组中，与等待和接受条件相比，自我同情组的抑郁情绪下降幅度更大。在已康复和从未抑郁的参与者中，自我同情也比重新评价更有效。
我们的结果仅依赖于自我报告数据。
我们的发现表明，自我同情优于接受，并且与重新评价同样有效或更有效，这鼓励了关于如何使用自我同情干预来增强当前抑郁症治疗效果和稳定性的未来研究。
