Varley Deanna, Sherwell Chase S, Kirby James N
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Compassionate Mind Research Group, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Br J Psychol. 2025 Feb;116(1):183-197. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12746. Epub 2024 Oct 30.
Interventions for increasing self-compassion are typically assessed through retrospective reports, which may not accurately capture everyday self-compassionate behaviour. Our study addresses this using experience sampling to evaluate a brief compassion-focused intervention's effects on needs for self-compassion, awareness of opportunities for self-compassion, self-compassionate behaviour and emotional responses to one's distress in daily life. Results indicated that the intervention was associated with less likelihood of reporting needs and opportunities for self-compassion but with no difference in self-compassionate actions or emotional experience. When participants acted self-compassionately, they reported more positive emotional experiences after needing self-compassion. This underscores the disparity between retrospective and ecological assessments, emphasizing the need for interventions to be evaluated in real-life contexts.
提高自我同情的干预措施通常通过回顾性报告进行评估，而回顾性报告可能无法准确捕捉日常的自我同情行为。我们的研究通过经验抽样来解决这一问题，以评估一项简短的以同情为重点的干预措施对自我同情需求、自我同情机会意识、自我同情行为以及对日常生活中自身痛苦的情绪反应的影响。结果表明，该干预措施与报告自我同情需求和机会的可能性降低相关，但在自我同情行为或情绪体验方面没有差异。当参与者表现出自我同情时，他们在需要自我同情后报告了更积极的情绪体验。这凸显了回顾性评估与生态评估之间的差异，强调了在现实生活背景下评估干预措施的必要性。
