Prentice Karina, Rees Clare, Finlay-Jones Amy
Telethon Kids Institute, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, Western Australia Australia.
Curtin University, Kent St, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia Australia.
Mindfulness (N Y). 2021;12(9):2241-2252. doi: 10.1007/s12671-021-01685-7. Epub 2021 Jul 26.
Adolescents and young adults with chronic medical conditions report higher distress and lower wellbeing than their physically healthy peers. Previous research suggests that self-compassion is negatively correlated with distress and positively correlated with wellbeing among healthy young people, as well as adults with chronic medical conditions. The current study aimed to extend these findings to a sample of adolescents and young adults with chronic medical conditions. This study also aimed to replicate findings observed in other populations by testing emotion regulation difficulties as a mediator of this relationship.
Adolescents and young adults aged 16 to 25 with chronic physical medical conditions ( = 107) completed an online survey including measures of self-compassion, emotion-regulation, wellbeing, and distress. Two mediation models were tested using the PROCESS macro in SPSS, with distress and wellbeing as outcomes.
Self-compassion had a significant direct negative association with distress and a significant direct positive association with wellbeing. While self-compassion and emotion regulation difficulties explained a large amount of variance in both wellbeing, = .31, < .001, and distress, = .46, < .001, no support was found for the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties between self-compassion and wellbeing. However, emotion regulation difficulties mediated the relationship between self-compassion and distress.
These findings suggest that an emotion regulation model of self-compassion may be applicable to young people with chronic medical conditions. Future research within this population may evaluate programs that develop self-compassion and emotion regulation skills.
患有慢性疾病的青少年和青年报告称，他们比身体健康的同龄人有更高的痛苦感和更低的幸福感。先前的研究表明，自我同情与健康年轻人以及患有慢性疾病的成年人的痛苦感呈负相关，与幸福感呈正相关。本研究旨在将这些发现扩展到患有慢性疾病的青少年和青年样本中。本研究还旨在通过测试情绪调节困难作为这种关系的中介来复制在其他人群中观察到的结果。
16至25岁患有慢性身体疾病的青少年和青年（n = 107）完成了一项在线调查，包括自我同情、情绪调节、幸福感和痛苦感的测量。使用SPSS中的PROCESS宏测试了两个中介模型，以痛苦感和幸福感作为结果。
自我同情与痛苦感有显著的直接负相关，与幸福感有显著的直接正相关。虽然自我同情和情绪调节困难解释了幸福感（R² = .31，p < .001）和痛苦感（R² = .46，p < .001）中大量的变异，但未发现情绪调节困难在自我同情和幸福感之间起中介作用。然而，情绪调节困难介导了自我同情与痛苦感之间的关系。
这些发现表明，自我同情的情绪调节模型可能适用于患有慢性疾病的年轻人。该人群未来的研究可以评估培养自我同情和情绪调节技能的项目。
