Self-reassurance, not self-esteem, serves as a buffer between self-criticism and depressive symptoms.
compassion-focused therapy
depression
self-compassion
self-criticism
self-esteem
self-reassurance
Journal
Psychology and psychotherapy
ISSN: 2044-8341
Titre abrégé: Psychol Psychother
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101135751
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2019
09 2019
Historique:
received:
13
01
2018
pubmed:
17
6
2018
medline:
18
2
2020
entrez:
17
6
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Several studies suggest that self-criticism and self-reassurance operate through different mechanisms and might interact with each other. This study examined the hypothesis that self-reassurance serves as a buffer between self-criticism and depressive symptoms in a way that self-esteem, which is rooted in a different motivational system, may not. We hypothesized that self-criticism would be correlated with high levels of depressive symptoms, but that this association would be weaker at higher levels of self-reassurance abilities. We also hypothesized that self-esteem, a self-relating process based on feeling able and competent to achieve life goals, would not buffer the relationship between self-criticism and depression. Self-criticism, self-reassurance, depressive symptoms, and self-esteem were assessed in a sample of 419 participants (66% females; M At higher levels of self-reassurance, the relationship between self-criticism and depressive symptoms became non-significant, supporting the buffering hypothesis of self-reassurance. Despite the high correlation between self-esteem and self-reassurance, self-esteem did not moderate the relationship between self-criticism and depressive symptoms. Results support the growing evidence that not all positive self-relating processes exert the same protective function against psychopathological consequences of self-criticism. Implications for psychotherapy and the validity of using compassion-focused interventions with clients with self-critical issues are discussed. Self-reassurance and self-criticism are distinct processes and they should not be considered positive and negative variations of a single dimension Different types of positive self-relating do not show the same correlation with depressive symptoms. The ability to be self-reassuring protects against the psychopathological correlates of self-criticism while having high self-esteem does not. Compassion-focused interventions are promising avenues to help clients counteract the negative impact of self-criticism on mood.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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Pagination
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© 2018 The British Psychological Society.
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