Dispositional self-compassion and responses to mood challenge in people at risk for depressive relapse/recurrence.
Clin Psychol Psychother
; 25(5): 621-633, 2018 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
This paper explores the relationship between dispositional self-compassion and cognitive emotion regulation capacities in individuals with a history of depression. Study 1 (n = 403) established that self-compassion was associated with increased use of positive and decreased use of negative strategies, with small to medium sized correlations. Study 2 (n = 68) was an experimental study examining the association between dispositional self-compassion, use of cognitive emotion regulation strategies, and changes in mood and self-devaluation in participants exposed to a negative mood induction followed by mood repair (mindfulness, rumination, silence). Individuals with higher levels of dispositional self-compassion showed greater mood recovery after mood induction, and less self-devaluation across the experimental procedure, independent of their mood-repair condition or habitual forms of cognitive emotion regulation. These results suggest that self-compassion is associated with more adaptive responses to mood challenges in individuals with a history of recurrent depression.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Self Concept
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Mood Disorders
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Depressive Disorder
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
Clin Psychol Psychother
Journal subject:
PSICOLOGIA
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PSIQUIATRIA
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TERAPEUTICA
Year:
2018
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United kingdom