Tannous-Haddad Lubna, Barel Efrat, Tzischinsky Orna
Behavioral Sciences Department, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Yezreel Valley, Israel.
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Front Psychol. 2024 Dec 24;15:1474177. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1474177. eCollection 2024.
Self-compassion and self-coldness mediate the relationship between perceived social support and wellbeing, depression, anxiety and stress. However, this mediation has not been studied in intercultural contexts yet. The current crosssectional study explores the mediation effects of both constructs among Arabs and Jews in Israel.
Participants were 496 adults-309 Jews (62.3%) and 187 Arabs (37.7%) with an average age of 40.3. Respondents completed online standardized measures of self-compassion, self-coldness, perceived social support, wellbeing, depression, anxiety, and stress. The data were analyzed using PROCESS macro model 4 and 59.
Testing the indirect effects of self-compassion and self-coldness on the relationship between perceived social support and wellbeing facets, we found a mediation effect for both constructs. We also found that culture moderated the mediation processes and found a stronger mediation effect for self-compassion among Arabs than Jews, but no moderation of culture on the mediation effect of self-coldness.
These results emphasize the importance of considering cultural context when designing support interventions aimed at promoting wellbeing by enhancing self-compassion. The differential mediation effect by self-compassion and self-coldness contributes to growing research pointing to a need to further explore the influence of different components of self-compassion in different cultures.
自我同情和自我冷漠在感知到的社会支持与幸福感、抑郁、焦虑和压力之间的关系中起中介作用。然而，这种中介作用在跨文化背景下尚未得到研究。当前的横断面研究探讨了这两种构念在以色列阿拉伯人和犹太人中的中介作用。
参与者为496名成年人，其中309名犹太人（62.3%）和187名阿拉伯人（37.7%），平均年龄为40.3岁。受访者完成了关于自我同情、自我冷漠、感知到的社会支持、幸福感、抑郁、焦虑和压力的在线标准化测量。数据使用PROCESS宏模型4和59进行分析。
在检验自我同情和自我冷漠对感知到的社会支持与幸福感各方面关系的间接影响时，我们发现这两种构念都有中介作用。我们还发现文化调节了中介过程，并且发现阿拉伯人自我同情的中介作用比犹太人更强，但文化对自我冷漠的中介作用没有调节作用。
这些结果强调了在设计旨在通过增强自我同情来促进幸福感的支持性干预措施时考虑文化背景的重要性。自我同情和自我冷漠的差异中介作用有助于越来越多的研究表明需要进一步探索不同文化中自我同情不同组成部分的影响。
