Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Int J Psychol. 2020 Jun;55(3):364-372. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12610. Epub 2019 Jul 31.
Previous studies consistently found that trait self-compassion is positively associated with health-promoting behaviours, and perceived stress mediates the relationship. The current study primarily aimed at examining whether state self-compassion varying from day to day (daily self-compassion) played the same role as trait self-compassion in improving health-promoting behaviours and whether or not perceived stress would be the mediator in this relationship. Eighty-nine Chinese employees were recruited to finish demographic information and the trait measure of self-compassion first, and then finish daily diaries for seven consecutive days. Daily diary measures included daily self-compassion, perceived stress and health-promoting behaviours including both eating behaviours and exercise behaviours. The results of 1-1-1 multilevel mediation analyses showed that, at both the within- and between-person level, daily self-compassion could positively predict daily eating behaviour through the reduction of perceived stress. However, daily self-compassion did not influence exercise behaviour at both levels. The results of 2-1-1 multilevel mediation analyses cross-validated the between-person relationships in the 1-1-1 multilevel mediation models. These results suggest that, both short-term interventions aiming at increasing state self-compassion and long-term interventions aiming at increasing trait self-compassion can benefit one's eating behaviours through the reduction of stress.
先前的研究一致表明，特质自我同情与促进健康的行为呈正相关，而感知压力则在两者之间起中介作用。本研究主要旨在检验日常自我同情（即每日自我同情）是否与特质自我同情一样，在改善促进健康的行为方面发挥作用，以及感知压力是否在这种关系中起中介作用。研究招募了 89 名中国员工，首先完成人口统计学信息和特质自我同情的测量，然后连续 7 天完成每日日记。每日日记的测量内容包括每日自我同情、感知压力和促进健康的行为，包括饮食行为和运动行为。1-1-1 多层次中介分析的结果表明，在个体内和个体间水平上，每日自我同情可以通过降低感知压力来积极预测每日的饮食行为。然而，每日自我同情在两个水平上都不会影响运动行为。2-1-1 多层次中介分析交叉验证了 1-1-1 多层次中介模型中个体间关系。这些结果表明，短期干预旨在增加状态自我同情，长期干预旨在增加特质自我同情，都可以通过减轻压力来促进人们的饮食行为。
