Is Self-Compassion Selfish? The Development of Self-Compassion, Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior in Adolescence.
Journal
Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence
ISSN: 1532-7795
Titre abrégé: J Res Adolesc
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9109126
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 2020
02 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
19
3
2019
medline:
23
4
2021
entrez:
19
3
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Both self-compassion and empathy have been theorized to promote prosociality in youth, but there is little longitudinal data examining this possibility. We assessed self-compassion, empathy, and peer-rated prosociality yearly, in a cohort of 2,078 youth across 17 schools (M age at T1 = 14.65 years; 49.2% female), as they progressed from Grade 9-12. We utilized multi-level modeling to predict prosocial behavior, nested within students, classes, and schools. We found that self-compassion and empathy uniquely predicted peer-rated prosocial behavior. However, only empathy predicted increases in prosocial behavior across time. While self-compassion is not selfish, it does not appear to facilitate the development of kindness toward adolescent peers. Self-compassion may help to buffer against possible negative effects of empathic distress.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
472-484Informations de copyright
© 2019 Society for Research on Adolescence.
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