Szczyglowski Kamila A, Kocovski Nancy L
Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2025 Nov;38(6):622-640. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2025.2511706. Epub 2025 Jun 19.
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Inducing self-compassion has shown benefits for social anxiety. Typically, individuals focus on a past or upcoming stressful social situation generally with self-compassion writing prompts. The present research evaluated the possible benefits of focusing self-compassionate writing on maladaptive self-beliefs.
Across both Study 1 ( = 442 students) and Study 2 ( = 229 students pre-selected for high social anxiety), during a single online session (30 minutes), participants reported their endorsement of maladaptive self-beliefs and then were randomly assigned to reflect on the beliefs within a potential future social situation with self-compassion or control writing prompts. Participants then reported their predicted thoughts and behaviors if the situation were to occur.
RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS: In both studies, participants in the self-compassion condition reported greater expected state self-compassion and positive affect, lower expected anxiety/distress, and fewer expected safety behaviors, compared to controls. Further, participants in the self-compassion condition showed significant reductions in endorsement of maladaptive self-beliefs from pre- to post-induction in both studies. Finally, in Study 1, the reduction in the endorsement of maladaptive self-beliefs for the self-compassion condition, led to reduced anxiety, which was further associated with lower predicted safety behaviors. Directing self-compassion to maladaptive self-beliefs specifically appears fruitful for socially anxious individuals.
背景/目的：培养自我同情已显示出对社交焦虑有益。通常，个体一般通过自我同情写作提示来关注过去或即将到来的有压力的社交情境。本研究评估了将自我同情写作聚焦于适应不良的自我信念可能带来的益处。
在研究1（442名学生）和研究2（229名预先筛选出的高社交焦虑学生）中，在一次30分钟的在线课程期间，参与者报告他们对适应不良自我信念的认同，然后被随机分配，用自我同情或对照写作提示来反思潜在未来社交情境中的信念。参与者随后报告如果情境发生他们预期的想法和行为。
结果/结论：在两项研究中，与对照组相比，自我同情组的参与者报告有更高的预期状态自我同情和积极情绪、更低的预期焦虑/痛苦以及更少的预期安全行为。此外，在两项研究中，自我同情组的参与者在诱导前到诱导后的适应不良自我信念认同上都有显著降低。最后，在研究1中，自我同情组适应不良自我信念认同的降低导致焦虑减少，这又进一步与更低的预期安全行为相关。专门针对适应不良自我信念引导自我同情，对社交焦虑个体似乎卓有成效。
