University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB, United Kingdom.
University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB, United Kingdom.
Nurse Educ Pract. 2021 Feb;51:102989. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2021.102989. Epub 2021 Feb 11.
Self-compassion, being kind towards oneself, has been identified as a key protective factor of mental health. This is consistent with students' experiences in the study of nursing, which attracts many students in the United Kingdom. Despite the importance of self-compassion, knowledge in how to enhance self-compassion is under-researched: approaches commonly entail meditative exercises. To suggest alternative approaches, relationships between self-compassion and more established constructs need to be appraised. Accordingly, this study evaluated predictors of self-compassion, examining its relationships with more established constructs examined in other healthcare student populations: resilience, engagement, motivation and mental well-being. An opportunity sample of 182 UK nursing students at a university in East Midlands completed self-report measures about these constructs. Correlation and regression analyses were conducted. Self-compassion was positively related to resilience, engagement, intrinsic motivation and mental well-being, while negatively related to amotivation. Resilience and mental well-being were identified as significant predictors of self-compassion. As resilience and mental well-being are relatively familiar to many nursing lecturers and students, educators can incorporate a self-compassion component into the existing resilience training and/or mental well-being practices.
自我同情，即善待自己，已被确定为心理健康的一个关键保护因素。这与护理专业学生的经历是一致的，吸引了许多英国学生。尽管自我同情很重要，但关于如何增强自我同情的知识研究不足：常见的方法包括冥想练习。为了提出替代方法，需要评估自我同情与更成熟的结构之间的关系，这些结构在其他医疗保健学生群体中进行了研究：韧性、投入、动机和心理健康。在东米德兰兹一所大学的 182 名英国护理专业学生中进行了一项机会性抽样，他们完成了关于这些结构的自我报告衡量标准。进行了相关性和回归分析。自我同情与韧性、投入、内在动机和心理健康呈正相关，而与动机缺乏呈负相关。韧性和心理健康被确定为自我同情的重要预测因素。由于韧性和心理健康对许多护理教师和学生来说相对熟悉，教育者可以将自我同情部分纳入现有的韧性培训和/或心理健康实践中。
