De Herrera Jordan M, Turk Cynthia L
Psychology Department, Washburn University, Topeka, KS, USA.
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 2025 Jun;87:102012. doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2024.102012. Epub 2025 Jan 15.
The current study examined emotion dysregulation and self-compassion as an intervention in individuals with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) symptoms.
College students who met criteria for GAD according to questionnaires and non-anxious controls participated in an anxious mood induction. Subsequently, participants were randomized to a self-compassion or control intervention.
Following the mood induction, the GAD group reported less self-compassion, more emotion dysregulation, more state anxiety, and more negative affect than the control group. In the intervention phase, for the self-compassion condition, all participants, irrespective of the presence or absence of GAD symptomatology, experienced a significant increase in state self-compassion and a significant decrease in state anxiety from pre-to post-intervention. Additionally, participants in the GAD group in the self-compassion condition also endorsed significantly less state emotion dysregulation and less negative affect. Participants in both groups assigned to the control intervention reported little change. Within the GAD group, the self-compassion manipulation produced more state self-compassion than the control intervention.
Participants were undergraduate students; as a result, the findings might not generalize to individuals presenting for treatment of GAD. The demonstrated effects were on state measures following a brief writing intervention; additional research is needed to assess the impact of more extensive self-compassion interventions over a longer time frame.
The results align with theory and previous studies, revealing heightened emotion dysregulation among those with GAD symptoms. A self-compassion intervention led to significant improvements for both participants with GAD symptoms and those without.
本研究考察情绪失调和自我同情作为对广泛性焦虑症（GAD）症状个体的一种干预措施。
根据问卷符合GAD标准的大学生和非焦虑对照组参与了焦虑情绪诱导。随后，参与者被随机分配到自我同情干预组或对照组。
在情绪诱导后，GAD组报告的自我同情更少、情绪失调更多、状态焦虑更多以及消极情绪更多，相比对照组。在干预阶段，对于自我同情条件，所有参与者，无论是否有GAD症状，从干预前到干预后状态自我同情显著增加且状态焦虑显著减少。此外，自我同情条件下GAD组的参与者也报告状态情绪失调和消极情绪显著更少。分配到对照干预组的两组参与者报告变化很小。在GAD组内，自我同情操作产生的状态自我同情比对照干预更多。
参与者是本科生；因此，研究结果可能不适用于寻求GAD治疗的个体。所显示的效果是基于简短写作干预后的状态测量；需要更多研究来评估更长时间内更广泛的自我同情干预的影响。
结果与理论和先前研究一致，揭示了有GAD症状者情绪失调加剧。自我同情干预对有GAD症状的参与者和没有症状的参与者都带来了显著改善。
