This study examined how self-compassion moderates the relationship between low self-esteem and mental health in adolescents over time. The researchers assessed self-esteem, self-compassion, and mental health in 2448 Australian high school students in 9th grade and again in 10th grade. Based on prior research and theory, they hypothesized that among students with high self-compassion, low self-esteem would be less strongly associated with poorer mental health outcomes over time. Statistical analyses found support for this hypothesis, such that self-compassion buffered the negative effects of low self-esteem on changes in mental health during the study period. The findings suggest fostering self-compassion in adolescents may help reduce
Temperament and Character of Schizophrenics: A Study on Indian Populationinventionjournals
This study was attempted to explore the temperament and character of schizophrenic patients and compared with normal controls. Total 102 schizophrenic patients and 50 normal controls were included in this study. The mean age of Schizophrenic patients was 32.073( SD + 10.205) and normal controls mean age was 30.14 (SD +12.048). Temperament and Character Inventory was used to assessed personality of the Schizophrenic patients. Findings revealed that out of four temperament novelty seeking and persistence were significantly differed from normal controls. Both were found low in Patients than normals. All three Character domains were found significantly difference in comparison of both group. Self directedness and cooperativeness were found low in schizophrenia than normals. Self transcendence was found high in patients group than Controls. Findings of this study can help to understand the personality of Schizophrenic patients.
The document discusses the philosophy and practice of clinical outpatient therapy. It begins with a disclaimer about the purpose of improving therapy practice through a deeper understanding of methods. It then discusses the background and training of the author with various clinicians over 12 years. It also discusses training with Richard Belson in an innovative live supervision practicum employing solution-focused team therapy for chronic problems.
This document outlines a train-the-trainer series for clinical supervisors focusing on counseling methods. It proposes a continuous skill development model with three interconnected parts: assessment, treatment planning, and intervention. For assessment, case conceptualization skills are developed using genograms. For treatment planning, critical thinking is improved through solution-based group supervision. For intervention, tactics and techniques are strengthened by modeling and role-playing new methods. Clinical supervisors must also receive regular case supervision to maintain skills.
Spiritual Well-Being and Parenting Stress in Caring for Children with Neuro-D...inventionjournals
Caregivers of children’s with neuro-developmental disorders face challenges starting from resistance and denial, and such challenges may be likely to impact their Well-being. The present study explores the relations between spiritual well-being and parenting stress when parents faced with a crisis like caring for children with neurodevelopmental disorders. A convenient sample of 38 parents who reared 3 to 12-year-old children diagnosed with neurodevelopmental issues was part of the study. Parental Stress Index -Short Form (PSI/SF; Abidin, 1995) and the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS; Ellison & Paloutzian, 2009) were used to obtain a measure of the variables chosen. Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to find out the significance of relations between spiritual well-being and parenting stress. Also, thesignificance of themean difference between the gender groups in relation tospiritual well-being and parenting stress was analysed using Independent Sample‘t’ test. Findings reveal a significant negative correlation between spiritual wellbeing and parenting stress, and it also shows that there is no gender difference in relation to parenting stress and spiritual well-being among parents. The findings indicate that spiritual wellbeing might act as a buffer of parental stress and can play the role of a protective factor against parenting stress for life challenges. It also shows that there might be no gender differences in parents’ experience of stress and spiritual wellbeing, but slight mean differences show a higher stress and spiritual wellbeing among mothers than fathers.
The document discusses psychological trauma and injury. It proposes that trauma results from experiences of loss, disaster/tragedy, or betrayal, which damage one's sense of self-worth. Unresolved trauma can lead to symptoms of depression, anxiety, guilt, anger, and shame as protective behaviors to regain control. Over time, symptoms may become rigid coping habits or ways to control others and avoid responsibility. The document advocates understanding depression and anxiety not as conditions but as meaningful belief structures arising from trauma.
Attitude and behaviour influence each other in a complex relationship. Attitude, which is one's thoughts or opinions, can predict behaviour when other influences are minimized, the attitude closely corresponds to the behaviour, and the attitude is strong. Conversely, behaviour can shape attitude through social roles defining behaviour and attitudes, the "foot-in-the-door" effect where small commitments lead to larger ones, and people justifying their actions to maintain consistent attitudes. The relationship is circular rather than strictly one-way, as behaviours and attitudes generate each other depending on the situation.
1) Mayeroff proposed distinguishing between caring for a person versus an idea, as there is a difference in balance between personal action/intellectual and emotional attachment.
2) For Mayeroff, caring involves commitment to another's growth and potential as well as the carer's knowledge, values, and traits like patience and sensitivity.
3) An ethics of care focuses on whole persons and relationships rather than rules, entailing ongoing responsiveness to each person's emotions and uniqueness.
This document provides an overview of advanced counseling methods and psychotherapy. It discusses different theoretical perspectives like Adlerian, cognitive, and family systems theories. It also addresses the difference between psychosocial models of counseling that rely on talk therapy compared to biological/neurogenomic models in psychiatry that emphasize medication. The document notes how clinical orientation impacts assessment, treatment planning, and intervention methods. It also discusses debates around whether mental disorders are caused primarily by psychosocial or biological factors.
Temperament and Character of Schizophrenics: A Study on Indian Populationinventionjournals
This study was attempted to explore the temperament and character of schizophrenic patients and compared with normal controls. Total 102 schizophrenic patients and 50 normal controls were included in this study. The mean age of Schizophrenic patients was 32.073( SD + 10.205) and normal controls mean age was 30.14 (SD +12.048). Temperament and Character Inventory was used to assessed personality of the Schizophrenic patients. Findings revealed that out of four temperament novelty seeking and persistence were significantly differed from normal controls. Both were found low in Patients than normals. All three Character domains were found significantly difference in comparison of both group. Self directedness and cooperativeness were found low in schizophrenia than normals. Self transcendence was found high in patients group than Controls. Findings of this study can help to understand the personality of Schizophrenic patients.
The document discusses the philosophy and practice of clinical outpatient therapy. It begins with a disclaimer about the purpose of improving therapy practice through a deeper understanding of methods. It then discusses the background and training of the author with various clinicians over 12 years. It also discusses training with Richard Belson in an innovative live supervision practicum employing solution-focused team therapy for chronic problems.
This document outlines a train-the-trainer series for clinical supervisors focusing on counseling methods. It proposes a continuous skill development model with three interconnected parts: assessment, treatment planning, and intervention. For assessment, case conceptualization skills are developed using genograms. For treatment planning, critical thinking is improved through solution-based group supervision. For intervention, tactics and techniques are strengthened by modeling and role-playing new methods. Clinical supervisors must also receive regular case supervision to maintain skills.
Spiritual Well-Being and Parenting Stress in Caring for Children with Neuro-D...inventionjournals
Caregivers of children’s with neuro-developmental disorders face challenges starting from resistance and denial, and such challenges may be likely to impact their Well-being. The present study explores the relations between spiritual well-being and parenting stress when parents faced with a crisis like caring for children with neurodevelopmental disorders. A convenient sample of 38 parents who reared 3 to 12-year-old children diagnosed with neurodevelopmental issues was part of the study. Parental Stress Index -Short Form (PSI/SF; Abidin, 1995) and the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS; Ellison & Paloutzian, 2009) were used to obtain a measure of the variables chosen. Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to find out the significance of relations between spiritual well-being and parenting stress. Also, thesignificance of themean difference between the gender groups in relation tospiritual well-being and parenting stress was analysed using Independent Sample‘t’ test. Findings reveal a significant negative correlation between spiritual wellbeing and parenting stress, and it also shows that there is no gender difference in relation to parenting stress and spiritual well-being among parents. The findings indicate that spiritual wellbeing might act as a buffer of parental stress and can play the role of a protective factor against parenting stress for life challenges. It also shows that there might be no gender differences in parents’ experience of stress and spiritual wellbeing, but slight mean differences show a higher stress and spiritual wellbeing among mothers than fathers.
The document discusses psychological trauma and injury. It proposes that trauma results from experiences of loss, disaster/tragedy, or betrayal, which damage one's sense of self-worth. Unresolved trauma can lead to symptoms of depression, anxiety, guilt, anger, and shame as protective behaviors to regain control. Over time, symptoms may become rigid coping habits or ways to control others and avoid responsibility. The document advocates understanding depression and anxiety not as conditions but as meaningful belief structures arising from trauma.
Attitude and behaviour influence each other in a complex relationship. Attitude, which is one's thoughts or opinions, can predict behaviour when other influences are minimized, the attitude closely corresponds to the behaviour, and the attitude is strong. Conversely, behaviour can shape attitude through social roles defining behaviour and attitudes, the "foot-in-the-door" effect where small commitments lead to larger ones, and people justifying their actions to maintain consistent attitudes. The relationship is circular rather than strictly one-way, as behaviours and attitudes generate each other depending on the situation.
1) Mayeroff proposed distinguishing between caring for a person versus an idea, as there is a difference in balance between personal action/intellectual and emotional attachment.
2) For Mayeroff, caring involves commitment to another's growth and potential as well as the carer's knowledge, values, and traits like patience and sensitivity.
3) An ethics of care focuses on whole persons and relationships rather than rules, entailing ongoing responsiveness to each person's emotions and uniqueness.
This document provides an overview of advanced counseling methods and psychotherapy. It discusses different theoretical perspectives like Adlerian, cognitive, and family systems theories. It also addresses the difference between psychosocial models of counseling that rely on talk therapy compared to biological/neurogenomic models in psychiatry that emphasize medication. The document notes how clinical orientation impacts assessment, treatment planning, and intervention methods. It also discusses debates around whether mental disorders are caused primarily by psychosocial or biological factors.
Self-determination theory (SDT) is a theory of motivation developed by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan that focuses on supporting innate psychological needs for competence, autonomy and relatedness. SDT posits that these basic needs must be satisfied for people to experience optimal motivation and development, and that social and environmental factors can either support or thwart need satisfaction. According to SDT, when these needs are fulfilled people become self-determined to pursue and persist in activities out of interest or intrinsic motivation.
This document discusses several theories of personality development. Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs proposes that individuals fulfill basic needs like food and safety before pursuing higher needs like belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory describes personality development across eight stages of conflict and identity formation. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory proposes that unconscious drives and early childhood experiences shape personality. Jean Piaget explored cognitive development and decreasing egocentricism. Lawrence Kohlberg studied moral reasoning development through stages. B.F. Skinner's behaviorism views personality as shaped by environmental conditioning and reinforcement. The document also proposes a collage activity for students to express their personalities.
Blind spots in the search for happiness: Implicit attitudes and nonverbal lea...Psychology2010
This study investigated whether implicit (nonconscious) attitudes can predict errors in affective forecasting. 56 participants completed implicit and explicit attitude measures about apples and chocolate, predicted how much they would enjoy each food, and then reported their actual enjoyment. Implicit attitudes uniquely predicted differences between predicted and actual enjoyment (forecasting errors), even when accounting for explicit attitudes and actual experiences. This suggests that implicit attitudes shape in-the-moment experiences but are unavailable for conscious consideration when making forecasts, representing a "blind spot" that contributes to affective forecasting errors.
The document discusses stress, coping, and adjustment frameworks for understanding intercultural contact and transition. It outlines factors that influence the stress experience during cultural transition, including life changes, social support, coping resources, modes of acculturation, cultural distance, and experiences with prejudice and discrimination in the host culture. Psychological adjustment is viewed as a process that varies over time and is impacted by both societal and individual variables.
This document summarizes a study that explored the relationships between mental health practitioners' personal life values, personal work values, well-being, and burnout. The study found that congruence between life and work values was related to higher well-being and feelings of accomplishment. Practitioners whose personal values aligned with commonly held values of a caring profession experienced lower burnout and higher well-being. Successfully pursuing one's work values also predicted lower burnout and greater well-being. Certain values like honesty, competence, and helping others were specifically associated with lower burnout.
This document discusses heuristics and biases that affect human judgment and decision-making. It notes that cognition is not fully under our conscious control and verbal reports on decision-making cannot be fully trusted. Common heuristics discussed include availability, representativeness, anchoring and adjustment, and overconfidence. Experts are also susceptible to heuristics. The document advocates recognizing heuristics to overcome their effects and make more accurate risk assessments. Decision-making in social work often involves satisficing due to incomplete information and multiple goals.
Social psychology examines how people influence each other and how situational factors impact thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It covers topics like emotions/attitudes, the self, and social cognition. Social psychology focuses on how people interpret situations and how those interpretations influence behavior. The fundamental attribution error is when people attribute others' behaviors to internal traits rather than external situational factors. Social roles, norms, and scripts guide expected behaviors. The Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrated how powerful social roles and situations can be in shaping behavior. Attitudes have affective, cognitive, and behavioral components and can be changed through persuasion if the source is credible and the message is tailored for the audience. Cognitive dissonance occurs when attitudes and behaviors are inconsistent and can
This document discusses a middle range theory on resilience based on Fawcett's criteria for theory evaluation. The theory lacks parsimony due to disagreement on terminology used and unclear characteristics. It has questionable testability due to subjective data and unvalidated measurement tools. More research is needed to clarify relationships between concepts related to resilience and increase internal consistency and empirical adequacy. The theory has limited pragmatic value for guiding interventions due to diverse definitions of resilience that cannot establish relationships between concepts or support evidence-based practice.
1. Maturation involves developing the capacity for warmth, intimacy, and an expanded sense of self, while social adjustment requires coping with new social standards and values.
2. Social adjustment involves forming perceptions of others based on their behaviors and attributes, which guides our interactions and relationships with them.
3. Social maturity develops over time through exposure to socially mature individuals and striving to meet the expectations of important social groups like family and peers. It involves gaining self-control, appropriately handling stress, and understanding one's social roles.
This document discusses attitudes, beliefs, and values. It defines attitude as having three components - cognitive, affective, and conative - and as being oriented positively or negatively towards an object or topic. Attitudes can influence behavior and be influenced by behavior. Beliefs are assumptions held as true, while values represent modes of conduct that are preferable. The document outlines several theories of attitude change and discusses the role of cognitive consistency and dissonance in driving changes. It also defines societal values according to frameworks involving human nature, man-nature relationships, time orientation, and levels of conservatism versus liberalism.
Formation of Attitude, How it is Changed and Rule of PrejudiceEHSAN KHAN
Let's quickly define the word attitude. An attitude is the value a person assigns to something or someone. How do you feel about the current president of the United States? What do you think about classical music? These questions will reveal your level of value towards these things, or, your attitude about the president or classical music.
This document discusses several theories related to person-centered care and attachment, including:
- Person-centered theory which emphasizes personal choice, inner resources for change, and that people are striving to reach their full potential. Conditions like positive regard and conditions of worth can help or hinder this.
- Attachment theory which looks at how early relationships shape a person's expectations of relationships and ability to trust. Positive and consistent caregiving leads to feeling safe and secure.
- Empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence are core conditions for person-centered nursing according to Rogers. Empathy involves understanding another's perspective while avoiding sympathy or advice-giving.
- Interpersonal theory examines how people interact
Attitude represents a person's mental view or feelings towards someone or something, while behavior refers to their outward actions and reactions. An individual's attitude influences their behavior, as behavior reflects one's thoughts. To change attitude and behavior, one can look for the positive, set achievable goals, and maintain behavioral changes with support from others. Consistency between attitudes and actions can be improved by addressing inconsistencies.
This document discusses whether attitude affects behavior. It introduces the speaker, Matthijs Roumen, a 21-year-old student from the Netherlands studying at Anadolu University. It defines an attitude as a stable mental position held toward someone or something, and notes that behavior refers to actions or reactions. It then poses the question of whether attitude predicts behavior and explores some examples where attitudes and behaviors were either consistent or inconsistent.
Cognitive therapy and skills training can help reduce recidivism by targeting criminogenic factors. Such approaches dispute offenders' automatic thoughts, provide skills to manage emotions and problems, and develop prosocial thinking. Static risk factors like criminal history cannot be changed, but dynamic factors like antisocial attitudes, substance abuse, and poor self-control respond to cognitive restructuring and skills training. These strategies teach offenders new ways of thinking to support responsible behavior.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in systemic therapy, including social constructionism and its influence on understanding the self and emotions. It discusses how social constructionism views reality as co-constructed through language and relationships. The self is seen as developed through interactions with others from a young age. Emotions are also viewed as socially and culturally constructed. Context is emphasized as central to meaning, and the document outlines changes to traditional Milan principles like curiosity replacing neutrality. Circular questioning is introduced as a way to explore relationships.
Motivation from a behavioral perspective sees it as anticipation of reward that arouses and directs behavior. Behaviorists use concepts of reward, an attractive consequence of behavior, and incentive, what actually motivates a person. Motivation depends on incentives rather than assumed rewards. Behavior is reinforced through consequences like rewards increasing behavior and punishments decreasing it. Motivation can be extrinsic through these consequences or intrinsic from interest in an activity itself. Excessive extrinsic rewards can reduce intrinsic motivation for an already enjoyable task.
This document discusses key aspects of mental processes, including beliefs, attitudes, values, needs, motives, and behavior. It defines each concept and explains how they are formed and relate to each other. Beliefs form the foundation of attitudes and are influenced by past experiences. Attitudes contain affective, cognitive, and behavioral components and can change over time. Values determine what is important and influence moral views. There are both terminal and instrumental values. Needs create internal drives when unsatisfied and range from physiological to self-actualization needs. Motives stem from needs and prompt behaviors as individuals work to satisfy deficiencies.
This study aimed to validate a 12-item measure of life satisfaction in older adolescents using a nationally representative sample in Australia. The study tested whether a one, two, or three factor model of life satisfaction provided the best fit and whether the measurement was invariant across gender and time. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a two factor model of current life satisfaction and satisfaction with future prospects as the best fitting model. Further analyses found this two factor model exhibited strong measurement invariance across gender, time, and the interaction of gender and time. This provides support for the measure as a stable assessment of perceived life satisfaction in older Australian adolescents.
Autocompaixão e satisfação com a vida e o papel da esperançaCátia Rodrigues
This study investigated the relationships between self-compassion, hope, and life satisfaction in 320 Chinese adults. The results showed that:
1) Self-compassion was positively associated with hope and life satisfaction.
2) Hope was positively associated with life satisfaction.
3) Hope fully mediated the positive relationship between self-compassion and life satisfaction. Specifically, higher self-compassion was linked to greater hope, which in turn was associated with higher life satisfaction.
Self-determination theory (SDT) is a theory of motivation developed by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan that focuses on supporting innate psychological needs for competence, autonomy and relatedness. SDT posits that these basic needs must be satisfied for people to experience optimal motivation and development, and that social and environmental factors can either support or thwart need satisfaction. According to SDT, when these needs are fulfilled people become self-determined to pursue and persist in activities out of interest or intrinsic motivation.
This document discusses several theories of personality development. Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs proposes that individuals fulfill basic needs like food and safety before pursuing higher needs like belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory describes personality development across eight stages of conflict and identity formation. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory proposes that unconscious drives and early childhood experiences shape personality. Jean Piaget explored cognitive development and decreasing egocentricism. Lawrence Kohlberg studied moral reasoning development through stages. B.F. Skinner's behaviorism views personality as shaped by environmental conditioning and reinforcement. The document also proposes a collage activity for students to express their personalities.
Blind spots in the search for happiness: Implicit attitudes and nonverbal lea...Psychology2010
This study investigated whether implicit (nonconscious) attitudes can predict errors in affective forecasting. 56 participants completed implicit and explicit attitude measures about apples and chocolate, predicted how much they would enjoy each food, and then reported their actual enjoyment. Implicit attitudes uniquely predicted differences between predicted and actual enjoyment (forecasting errors), even when accounting for explicit attitudes and actual experiences. This suggests that implicit attitudes shape in-the-moment experiences but are unavailable for conscious consideration when making forecasts, representing a "blind spot" that contributes to affective forecasting errors.
The document discusses stress, coping, and adjustment frameworks for understanding intercultural contact and transition. It outlines factors that influence the stress experience during cultural transition, including life changes, social support, coping resources, modes of acculturation, cultural distance, and experiences with prejudice and discrimination in the host culture. Psychological adjustment is viewed as a process that varies over time and is impacted by both societal and individual variables.
This document summarizes a study that explored the relationships between mental health practitioners' personal life values, personal work values, well-being, and burnout. The study found that congruence between life and work values was related to higher well-being and feelings of accomplishment. Practitioners whose personal values aligned with commonly held values of a caring profession experienced lower burnout and higher well-being. Successfully pursuing one's work values also predicted lower burnout and greater well-being. Certain values like honesty, competence, and helping others were specifically associated with lower burnout.
This document discusses heuristics and biases that affect human judgment and decision-making. It notes that cognition is not fully under our conscious control and verbal reports on decision-making cannot be fully trusted. Common heuristics discussed include availability, representativeness, anchoring and adjustment, and overconfidence. Experts are also susceptible to heuristics. The document advocates recognizing heuristics to overcome their effects and make more accurate risk assessments. Decision-making in social work often involves satisficing due to incomplete information and multiple goals.
Social psychology examines how people influence each other and how situational factors impact thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It covers topics like emotions/attitudes, the self, and social cognition. Social psychology focuses on how people interpret situations and how those interpretations influence behavior. The fundamental attribution error is when people attribute others' behaviors to internal traits rather than external situational factors. Social roles, norms, and scripts guide expected behaviors. The Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrated how powerful social roles and situations can be in shaping behavior. Attitudes have affective, cognitive, and behavioral components and can be changed through persuasion if the source is credible and the message is tailored for the audience. Cognitive dissonance occurs when attitudes and behaviors are inconsistent and can
This document discusses a middle range theory on resilience based on Fawcett's criteria for theory evaluation. The theory lacks parsimony due to disagreement on terminology used and unclear characteristics. It has questionable testability due to subjective data and unvalidated measurement tools. More research is needed to clarify relationships between concepts related to resilience and increase internal consistency and empirical adequacy. The theory has limited pragmatic value for guiding interventions due to diverse definitions of resilience that cannot establish relationships between concepts or support evidence-based practice.
1. Maturation involves developing the capacity for warmth, intimacy, and an expanded sense of self, while social adjustment requires coping with new social standards and values.
2. Social adjustment involves forming perceptions of others based on their behaviors and attributes, which guides our interactions and relationships with them.
3. Social maturity develops over time through exposure to socially mature individuals and striving to meet the expectations of important social groups like family and peers. It involves gaining self-control, appropriately handling stress, and understanding one's social roles.
This document discusses attitudes, beliefs, and values. It defines attitude as having three components - cognitive, affective, and conative - and as being oriented positively or negatively towards an object or topic. Attitudes can influence behavior and be influenced by behavior. Beliefs are assumptions held as true, while values represent modes of conduct that are preferable. The document outlines several theories of attitude change and discusses the role of cognitive consistency and dissonance in driving changes. It also defines societal values according to frameworks involving human nature, man-nature relationships, time orientation, and levels of conservatism versus liberalism.
Formation of Attitude, How it is Changed and Rule of PrejudiceEHSAN KHAN
Let's quickly define the word attitude. An attitude is the value a person assigns to something or someone. How do you feel about the current president of the United States? What do you think about classical music? These questions will reveal your level of value towards these things, or, your attitude about the president or classical music.
This document discusses several theories related to person-centered care and attachment, including:
- Person-centered theory which emphasizes personal choice, inner resources for change, and that people are striving to reach their full potential. Conditions like positive regard and conditions of worth can help or hinder this.
- Attachment theory which looks at how early relationships shape a person's expectations of relationships and ability to trust. Positive and consistent caregiving leads to feeling safe and secure.
- Empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence are core conditions for person-centered nursing according to Rogers. Empathy involves understanding another's perspective while avoiding sympathy or advice-giving.
- Interpersonal theory examines how people interact
Attitude represents a person's mental view or feelings towards someone or something, while behavior refers to their outward actions and reactions. An individual's attitude influences their behavior, as behavior reflects one's thoughts. To change attitude and behavior, one can look for the positive, set achievable goals, and maintain behavioral changes with support from others. Consistency between attitudes and actions can be improved by addressing inconsistencies.
This document discusses whether attitude affects behavior. It introduces the speaker, Matthijs Roumen, a 21-year-old student from the Netherlands studying at Anadolu University. It defines an attitude as a stable mental position held toward someone or something, and notes that behavior refers to actions or reactions. It then poses the question of whether attitude predicts behavior and explores some examples where attitudes and behaviors were either consistent or inconsistent.
Cognitive therapy and skills training can help reduce recidivism by targeting criminogenic factors. Such approaches dispute offenders' automatic thoughts, provide skills to manage emotions and problems, and develop prosocial thinking. Static risk factors like criminal history cannot be changed, but dynamic factors like antisocial attitudes, substance abuse, and poor self-control respond to cognitive restructuring and skills training. These strategies teach offenders new ways of thinking to support responsible behavior.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in systemic therapy, including social constructionism and its influence on understanding the self and emotions. It discusses how social constructionism views reality as co-constructed through language and relationships. The self is seen as developed through interactions with others from a young age. Emotions are also viewed as socially and culturally constructed. Context is emphasized as central to meaning, and the document outlines changes to traditional Milan principles like curiosity replacing neutrality. Circular questioning is introduced as a way to explore relationships.
Motivation from a behavioral perspective sees it as anticipation of reward that arouses and directs behavior. Behaviorists use concepts of reward, an attractive consequence of behavior, and incentive, what actually motivates a person. Motivation depends on incentives rather than assumed rewards. Behavior is reinforced through consequences like rewards increasing behavior and punishments decreasing it. Motivation can be extrinsic through these consequences or intrinsic from interest in an activity itself. Excessive extrinsic rewards can reduce intrinsic motivation for an already enjoyable task.
This document discusses key aspects of mental processes, including beliefs, attitudes, values, needs, motives, and behavior. It defines each concept and explains how they are formed and relate to each other. Beliefs form the foundation of attitudes and are influenced by past experiences. Attitudes contain affective, cognitive, and behavioral components and can change over time. Values determine what is important and influence moral views. There are both terminal and instrumental values. Needs create internal drives when unsatisfied and range from physiological to self-actualization needs. Motives stem from needs and prompt behaviors as individuals work to satisfy deficiencies.
This study aimed to validate a 12-item measure of life satisfaction in older adolescents using a nationally representative sample in Australia. The study tested whether a one, two, or three factor model of life satisfaction provided the best fit and whether the measurement was invariant across gender and time. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a two factor model of current life satisfaction and satisfaction with future prospects as the best fitting model. Further analyses found this two factor model exhibited strong measurement invariance across gender, time, and the interaction of gender and time. This provides support for the measure as a stable assessment of perceived life satisfaction in older Australian adolescents.
Autocompaixão e satisfação com a vida e o papel da esperançaCátia Rodrigues
This study investigated the relationships between self-compassion, hope, and life satisfaction in 320 Chinese adults. The results showed that:
1) Self-compassion was positively associated with hope and life satisfaction.
2) Hope was positively associated with life satisfaction.
3) Hope fully mediated the positive relationship between self-compassion and life satisfaction. Specifically, higher self-compassion was linked to greater hope, which in turn was associated with higher life satisfaction.
Correlação da inteligencia emocional com o mindfulness e satisfação com a vidaCátia Rodrigues
This study examined whether emotional intelligence mediates the relationship between mindfulness and subjective well-being. The study found that higher mindfulness was associated with greater emotional intelligence and higher subjective well-being. Emotional intelligence partially or fully mediated the relationships between mindfulness and positive affect, negative affect, and life satisfaction. This suggests that emotional intelligence may be one process through which mindfulness improves well-being.
1. The study examined whether negative automatic thoughts mediate the relationship between self-compassion and measures of mental health like anxiety, depression, and life satisfaction, while controlling for self-esteem.
2. In Study 1 (N=231), results suggested that self-compassion decreased negative automatic thoughts and trait anxiety. Negative automatic thoughts partially mediated the relationship between self-compassion and depression/anxiety.
3. In Study 2 (N=233), both positive and negative automatic thoughts were examined as potential mediators. Results suggested positive automatic thoughts mediated the relationship between self-compassion and life satisfaction/depression/anxiety, while controlling for self-esteem.
O documento discute os benefícios do yoga para crianças, incluindo seu impacto no desenvolvimento físico, social, cognitivo, afetivo e espiritual. Ele descreve vários aspectos do yoga como asanas, pranayama e meditação e como eles podem ser adaptados e ensinados para crianças de forma lúdica e benéfica.
Este documento fornece informações sobre Marcelo da Rocha Carvalho, um psicólogo clínico especializado em psicoterapia comportamental e cognitiva infantil. O documento discute a história da terapia cognitivo-comportamental infantil, princípios e técnicas, incluindo análise funcional do comportamento, modificação do ambiente, reforço positivo e modelagem social.
O documento discute os métodos e objetivos da avaliação cognitivo-comportamental. A avaliação é um processo contínuo e recursivo que visa identificar com rigor o problema do paciente. Inclui entrevistas, questionários, observação direta e auto-monitorização para avaliar cognições, comportamentos e emoções.
1) O documento descreve exercícios para identificar e modificar crenças negativas, incluindo registrar monólogos internos, analisar crenças centrais e situações problemáticas, e testar e fortalecer novas crenças mais funcionais.
2) Fornece instruções para identificar crenças negativas através de técnicas como "afunilamento" e "teste de crença" e fornecer evidências que as contestem.
3) Apresenta exercícios como "registro de evidências", "du
Identificando e mudando as crenças intermediárias - TCCSarah Karenina
O documento discute as crenças dos pacientes e como elas podem ser identificadas e modificadas na terapia cognitivo-comportamental. As crenças são classificadas em centrais e intermediárias e influenciam os pensamentos automáticos. O terapeuta desenvolve uma conceituação cognitiva para mapear estas relações e guiar o tratamento. A modificação das crenças mais profundas requer técnicas como questionamento socrático e experimentos comportamentais.
O documento descreve o método socrático de questionamento sistemático utilizado na psicoterapia. O método envolve questionar crenças irracionais do paciente para ajudá-lo a reconhecer áreas de ignorância e estimular o pensamento independente. O questionamento pode seguir diferentes formatos como memória, interpretação e aplicação para promover novas formas de pensar.
Article
Social Identity Reduces Depression by
Fostering Positive Attributions
Tegan Cruwys1, Erica I. South1, Katharine H. Greenaway1,
and S. Alexander Haslam1
Abstract
Social identities are generally associated with better health and in particular lower levels of depression. However, there has been
limited investigation of why social identities protect against depression. The current research suggests that social identities reduce
depression in part because they attenuate the depressive attribution style (internal, stable, and global; e.g., ‘‘I failed because I’m
stupid’’). These relationships are first investigated in a survey (Study 1, N ¼ 139) and then followed up in an experiment that
manipulates social identity salience (Study 2, N ¼ 88). In both cases, people with stronger social identities were less likely to
attribute negative events to internal, stable, or global causes and subsequently reported lower levels of depression. These studies
thus indicate that social identities can protect and enhance mental health by facilitating positive interpretations of stress and
failure. Implications for clinical theory and practice are discussed.
Keywords
depression, social identity, multiple group membership, attribution, failure, mental health
We cannot live only for ourselves.
A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
—Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Humans have an innate need for social connections that are vital for
health and happiness in life (Baumeister & Leary, 1995; Cohen &
Wills, 1985). When this need is not met—when the ‘‘thousand
fibers’’ in Melville’s (1851) quote are reduced to a few or
none—people are at risk of reduced well-being and even mental ill-
ness. In fact, depression—the leading cause of disability worldwide
(World Health Organization, 2012)—commonly arises when a per-
son lacks social connections (Cacioppo, Hawkley, & Thisted,
2010; Cacioppo, Hughes, Waite, Hawkley, & Thisted, 2006).
Although extensive prior work has documented the fact that
social connectedness and social identities are critical to mental
health and reduced rates of depression, it remains unclear why
this is the case (Cruwys, Haslam, Dingle, Haslam, & Jetten,
2014; Jetten, Haslam, Haslam, Dingle, & Jones, 2014). We
address this research gap in the present work. What exactly do
social identities do, psychologically, that makes them so protec-
tive for mental health? In answering this question, we propose a
novel mechanism through which social identities can protect peo-
ple against depression, that is, reduced depressive attributions.
Social Identity and Depression
A growing body of literature demonstrates that social identities
are a key psychological resource that is protective for health
generally (Haslam, Jetten, Postmes, & Haslam, 2009; Jetten,
Haslam, & Haslam, 2012) and against depression in particular
(Cruwys et al., 2013; Cruwys, Haslam, Dingle, Haslam, et al,
2014; Cruwys, Haslam, Dingle, Jetten, et al., 2.
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Describe the characteristics of the main or central research question in a qualitative study.
One of the characteristics of a qualitative research question focuses on a one-one-one interviews to understand the perspective of the underlying inquiry. A qualitative research question is based on being able to discover problems and opportunities from the perspective of the research respondents. Qualitative research question are open-ended in nature, which means that they are able to respond to questions without limitations. Besides, they are easily understood by respondents and do not need to clarify (Creswell & Poth, 2016).
State your proposed qualitative research question.
What is the experience of young, under the age of 25, entry level woman who are highly motivated to help with on an organization performance?
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Characteristics of qualitative research include data collection from the natural setting. The researcher takes an active role in collection of data from the participant’s right from their natural setting. The researcher collects data based on awareness of the underlying business context. The researchers must practice patience throughout the interview period. The researchers must be empathetic and can use multiple methods to collect data. The researchers design and develop the process, which means the process is not static and is subject to evolution over time. The researcher must also collaborate with the participants and maintain ethics throughout the process (Creswell & Poth, 2016).
Types of qualitative research questions include exploratory which seeks to understand something without influencing the results with preconceived notions. Another type of question is the predictive questions which seek to understand the outcome surrounding a topic. Interpretive questions that gathers feedback on a certain phenomenon without influencing the outcome.
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Learning Objectives
After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
Understand how kinds of temperament are associated with principles of reciprocal relationships and
goodness of �it.
Outline Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development.
Articulate and evaluate the theoretical ideas of Marcia and Levinson.
Compare and contrast trait and type theories and how they each assess personality.
Outline the evidence for the emergence of self-awareness and summarize demographic differences in
self-esteem.
De�ine ethnic identity and understand how it in�luences identity development.
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Autocompaixao e autojulgamento em adolescentes
1. Reprint of "Self-compassion protects against the negative effects of low
self-esteem: A longitudinal study in a large adolescent sample" q
Sarah L. Marshall a,⇑
, Phillip D. Parker b
, Joseph Ciarrochi b
, Baljinder Sahdra b
, Chris J. Jackson c
,
Patrick C.L. Heaven d
a
School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney and Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University, Australia
b
Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University, Australia
c
School of Management, University of New South Wales, Australia
d
Australian Catholic University, Australia
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 9 January 2014
Received in revised form 7 September 2014
Accepted 8 September 2014
Available online 25 March 2015
Keywords:
Self-esteem
Self-compassion
Mental health
Adolescents
Longitudinal
a b s t r a c t
Low self-esteem is usually linked to negative outcomes such as poor mental health, but is this always the
case? Based on a contextual behavioural model, we reasoned that self-compassion would weaken the link
between low self-esteem and low mental health. Self-compassion involves accepting self-doubt, negative
self-evaluations and adversity as part of the human condition. In a longitudinal study of 2448 Australian
adolescents, we assessed how self-esteem interacted with self-compassion in Grade 9 to predict changes
in mental health over the next year. As hypothesized, self-compassion moderated the influence of self-
esteem on mental health. Amongst those high in self-compassion, low self-esteem had little effect on
mental health, suggesting a potentially potent buffering affect. We discuss the possibility that fostering
self-compassion among adolescents can reduce their need for self-esteem in situations that elicit self-
doubt.
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1. Introduction
‘‘If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, prac-
tice compassion’’ (Dalia Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness).
Low self-esteem during adolescence predicts poorer mental
health outcomes (Orth, Robins, & Meier, 2009; Orth, Robins, &
Roberts, 2008), future suicide attempts (Lewinsohn, Rohde, &
Seeley, 1994; Wichstrøm, 2000), and failure to develop positive
social support networks (Marshall, Parker, Ciarrochi, & Heaven,
2014). Historically, practitioners working with young people with
low self-esteem seek to increase their self-esteem through inter-
ventions (Neff, 2009). However, direct attempts to boost self-es-
teem may lead to young people becoming more narcissistic or
antisocial (Baumeister, Smart, & Boden, 1996) and may lead young
people to cling to positive self-concepts and avoid challenging
learning opportunities that might threaten that concept (Dweck,
Chiu, & Hong, 1995; Mueller & Dweck, 1998). An alternative
approach is to boost self-compassion which may help young peo-
ple respond effectively to situations that evoke low self-esteem
(Leary, Tate, Adams, Allen, & Hancock, 2007; Neff, 2003b).
A great deal of research has examined interventions that
attempt to directly increase self-esteem in different domains
(O’Mara, Marsh, Craven, & Debus, 2006). The core logic of these
interventions is that low self-esteem can become a self-fulfilling
prophecy, leading young people to act in negative, unhelpful ways.
In other words, low self-esteem is viewed as a cause of problems.
Recently, theorists in mindfulness and contextualist traditions
have begun to challenge this view (Ciarrochi & Bailey, 2008;
Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 2011). Low self-esteem is not seen as
inherently causal. Rather, the effect of low self-esteem on out-
comes is hypothesized to depend on context.
1.1. A contextual model: different ways of approaching difficult
thoughts
Consider the thought, ‘‘I am worthless.’’ In one context, young
people are encouraged to take such self-evaluations seriously by,
for example, being taught that they need high self-esteem to suc-
ceed and that low self-esteem is bad for them. Imagine this context
also encourages young people to be intolerant of their flaws (e.g.,
‘‘You always have to be the best you can be.’’) This is a situation
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This article is a Special issue article – ‘‘Young researcher award 2014’’.
⇑ Corresponding author. Present address: Institute for Positive Psychology and
Education, Australian Catholic University, Strathfield Campus, Locked Bag 2002,
Strathfield, NSW 2135, Australia.
E-mail address: sarah.marshall@acu.edu.au (S.L. Marshall).
Personality and Individual Differences 81 (2015) 201–206
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2. where we would expect thoughts like ‘‘I am worthless’’ to play a
strong role in behaviour and to lead to the development of poor
mental health. In contrast, consider a compassionate context:
The young person is taught that every human is imperfect and feels
inadequate sometimes and that, when going through a hard time,
everybody can treat themselves with kindness, patience, and for-
giveness. In this context, the thought ‘‘I am worthless’’ might have
few long-term effects on mental health.
The predictions made here can be understood more formally in
terms of Relational Frame Theory (RFT), a modern behavioural
account of human language (Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, & Roche,
2001; Törneke, 2010). Figure 1 presents a graphical image of the
theory. RFT suggests that low self-esteem beliefs like ‘‘I am worth-
less’’ are cognitive events under two types of contextual influence:
the relational context and the functional context. The relational con-
text governs which relation is established between stimuli in a
given moment (‘‘I’’ and ‘‘worthless’’ are put into a relation of equiva-
lence) while the functional context influences the impact of these
words on future behaviour (e.g., ‘‘I am worthless’’ leads to high dis-
tress and social withdrawal).
A number of functional contexts are hypothesized to increase
the impact of cognitive events on behaviour, including contexts
that reinforce seeing thoughts as reasons for doing things or not
doing things, taking thoughts literally, clinging to thoughts, or
avoiding them. These social/verbal contexts increase the impact
of negative thoughts because, in such contexts, the individual
and/or the social community treat these thoughts as meaning lit-
erally what they say. These are represented in the top part of
Fig. 1. If thoughts are taken to be infallible representations of rea-
lity (context of literality), they tend to have high impact on beha-
viour and distress.
Examples of contexts that reduce the impact of cognitive events
on behaviour include mindfully seeing them as an ongoing process,
accepting thoughts as thoughts, for instance, by noticing how one’s
body reacts to them; or watching thoughts from a psychologically
distant perspective (Kross & Ayduk, 2008); adding paralinguistic or
other features that reduce their impact such as singing them, say-
ing them in a silly voice, or repeating them aloud (Masuda, Hayes,
Sackett, & Twohig, 2004); or using nonattachment practices that
allow release from the tendency to reify personal beliefs as infall-
ible reflections of a fixed, knowable reality (Sahdra, Shaver, &
Brown, 2010). These social/verbal contexts decrease the impact
of negative thoughts because they are the ones in which the
individual and/or the social community treats thoughts as objects
of curiosity without assuming they literally mean what they say.
These contexts are represented in the bottom part of Fig. 1. If
thoughts are not taken to be infallible representations of reality,
they have low impact on behaviour and distress.
These ideas have been most extensively tested in studies
examining different components of Acceptance and Commitment
Therapy (ACT: Hayes et al., 2011). Levin, Hildebrant, Lillis, and
Hayes (2012) reviewed 66 such studies and showed consistent
support for this theory. For example, a study by Masuda et al.
(2004) found that repeating a negative self-evaluation aloud for
30 s greatly reduced its believability and distressful impact – a
finding that has been repeatedly replicated (e.g., Masuda,
Feinstein, Wendell, & Sheehan, 2010; Masuda, Twohig, et al.,
2010). Similarly a study by Marcks and Woods (2005) found that
those who seek to suppress intrusive thoughts are more distressed
by them relative to those who accept the intrusive thoughts.
Past theory indicates that self-compassion has clear conceptual
overlap with mindfulness and acceptance (e.g., Neff, 2003a). Based
on our theoretical discussion above and related empirical studies,
it logically follows that low self-esteem will have different associa-
tions with mental health in the two contexts of high and low self-
compassion.
1.2. The compassionate context
Neff defined self-compassion as comprising three key compo-
nents exhibited during times of personal suffering and failure:
(1) treating oneself kindly, (2) recognising one’s struggles as part
of the shared human experience, and (3) holding one’s painful
thoughts and feelings in mindful awareness (Neff, 2003b, 2009).
Self-compassion can be distinguished from self-esteem in that it
provides a safe and caring context whereby one can connect with
the negative aspects of self (Breines & Chen, 2012) without engag-
ing in suppression or exaggeration of these feelings (Neff,
Kirkpatrick, & Rude, 2007).
Theoretically, what is important from a self-compassionate per-
spective is not the negativity of the thoughts, but rather how one
chooses to respond to those thoughts when they arise. For exam-
ple, it is entirely possible to decide to act kindly towards oneself
even in the presence of unfavourable thoughts. Indeed recent
research (described below) supports suggestions that people high
in self-compassion may be less likely to fuse, or become entangled
with negative self-concepts.
Leary et al. (2007) undertook a series of experiments to examine
the cognitive and emotional processes by which self-compassion-
ate people deal with negative life events. They found that self-com-
passion acted as a buffer against negative emotions when people
engaged in an interpersonal event involving unfavourable self-
evaluation. This finding was particularly notable for participants
low in self-esteem. They also found that self-compassion allowed
individuals to acknowledge their personal role in negative events,
whilst maintaining a broader perspective on negative self-con-
cepts. Importantly, self-compassionate people appeared able to
take an accepting and open stance to undesirable aspects of self,
without becoming caught up in negative thoughts and defensive
behaviour (Leary et al., 2007).
Breines and Chen (2012) conducted four experiments that
examined how self-compassion moderates peoples’ response to a
variety of negative, ego-threatening situations. They found that
experimentally induced self-compassion increased the belief that
shortcomings can be changed, the desire to make amends and
avoid repeating a moral transgression, effort in studying for a test
following failure, and motivation to improve a personal weakness.
Thus, in the context of self-compassion, negative events were
associated with positive response. A similar effect has also been
demonstrated in a clinical trial. Luoma, Kohlenberg, Hayes, and
Fletcher (2012) compared ACT to treatment as usual (TAU) in
reducing substance use. Similar to self-compassion interventions,Fig. 1. A contextual model of different ways of relating to difficult thoughts.
202 S.L. Marshall et al. / Personality and Individual Differences 81 (2015) 201–206
3. ACT seeks to promote a kind acceptance of difficult inner experi-
ences such as shame. The study found that the ACT group, com-
pared to the TAU group, initially showed higher levels of shame
during active treatment, but better long-term outcomes in reduced
substance use. ACT appeared to allow the clients to more fully
experience and process shame and this resulted in better
outcomes.
It is clear from the above review that self-compassion can
potentially protect people from the harmful effects of negative life
events and ego-threats. We sought to extend these adult findings
to adolescents and, in particular, to examine the extent that self-
compassion could lessen or even negate the influence of low self-
esteem on the development of poor mental health (Gilbert, 2010;
Neff, 2003b). The young person high in self-compassion is expected
to react to adversity and negative self-evaluations with self-kind-
ness and a recognition that these negative evaluations are a normal
part of being human (Neff, 2003a). A recent meta-analysis found a
strong link between self-compassion and mental health indicators
(MacBeth & Gumley, 2012). Self-compassion also predicts unique
variance in mental health, after controlling for global self-esteem
(Neff, 2003a). However, studies including both self-esteem and
self-compassion as predictors of mental illness are limited (Neff,
2003a), and longitudinal designs with these variables are non-
existent.
The present study is the first to examine self-esteem, self-com-
passion and their interaction as predictors of changing mental
health in young people. In line with theory, we hypothesized that
self-compassion moderates the link between self-esteem and men-
tal health, with a weaker link being observed amongst those high
in self-compassion.
2. Method
2.1. Participants
Over two years, 2448 adolescents in Grades 9 and 10 partici-
pated in at least one wave of data collection (M = 14.65 years;
SD = .45; 49.6% female; 50.4% male). The sample consisted of par-
ticipants from the Australian Character Study who attended 17
Catholic High schools in two states of Australia. Catholic Schools
in Australia account for 20.52% of secondary schools (Australian
Bureau of Statistics, 2012). The two diocese were concentrated in
the city of Wollongong (New South Wales) and Cairns
(Queensland), but also included schools within regional and rural
areas, thereby ensuring a diverse socioeconomic and cultural mix
of participants. Concerning marital status, in Grade 9 75.7% of
the parents were married, 18.5% were separated or divorced, and
5.8% were classified as ‘‘other’’. The vast majority of participants
classified themselves as ‘‘Caucasian Australian’’ (63.3%) or
European (13.7%), with the next most frequent categories being
‘‘other’’ (11.9%), aboriginal (3.4%) or New Zealander (1.6%). Ethics
approval was granted by the University and informed consent
was obtained from study participants.
The data for this study had a nested structure with students
nested within the 17 schools. Our research hypotheses were not
focused on multi-level hypotheses (e.g., interest in both student
and school). There was little evidence for clustering of the variables
within schools, with the interclass correlations for all study vari-
ables below .04. However even when interest is at a single level,
failure to account for the nested structure can result in under-
estimated standard errors and too liberal tests of statistical signifi-
cance (see Hox, 2010 for a general introduction). To control for this
we used a sandwich estimator in Mplus via the TYPE = COMPLEX
command. This sandwich estimator adjusts standard errors for
the effects of clustered data and provides more appropriate tests
of statistical significance.
2.2. Measures
Self-esteem and self-compassion were measured in Grade 9 and
mental health was measured in both 9 and 10. In all models self-
esteem items were treated as binary and estimated using a probit
link function. All other items were treated as continuous and esti-
mated using a Gaussian link function. For such items we explored
their distribution and in all cases skewness and kurtosis were small
and well within acceptable levels:
(1) Self-esteem (a = .86) was measured using the Rosenberg 10-
item scale (RSE; Rosenberg, 1979) utilising a binary response
style (‘‘yes’’ or ‘‘no’’).
(2) Self-compassion (a = .75) was measured using the 12-item
short form of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS-SF; Raes,
Pommier, Neff, & Van Gucht, 2011) utilising a 5-point
Likert style (1 = ‘‘almost never’’ to 5 = ‘‘almost always’’).
(3) Mental health (aT1 = .90; aT2 = .90) was measured using the
12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12, Goldberg
et al., 1997), utilising a 5-point scale (1 = ‘‘Almost never’’ to
5 = ‘‘Almost always’’).
2.3. Statistical analysis
Structural equation modelling was used to form latent variables
from scale items, and predict Grade 10 mental health, using Grade
9 mental health and interactions between adolescents’ self-com-
passion and self-esteem. Controlling for Grade 9 mental health
meant that self-compassion and self-esteem predicted residual
change in mental health from Grade 9 to 10. For the self-esteem
items we used a probit link function to account for the binary
response scale of the self-esteem items and a Gaussian link func-
tion or all other items. In order to provide estimates of fit (e.g.,
CFI, RMSEA, TLI) we used multivariate weighted least squares in
models without the latent interaction. To estimate the latent inter-
action, however, we had to switch to robust maximum likelihood
estimation. Both estimators give similar results and the point esti-
mates for the model without the latent interaction were almost
identical under either estimator.
2.3.1. Latent interactions
The interaction between self-esteem and self-compassion in
predicting change in mental ill-health in adolescence over a one
year period was estimated using the LMS approach (Klein &
Mossbrugger, 2000). The use of LMS precludes the use of fit indices,
hence we report fit based on the models without the interaction
term. Unlike the unconstrained approach, however, LMS approach
as implemented in Mplus allows for relatively straightforward
estimation of complex interactions, including the three way inter-
action between the two latent variables of self-esteem and self-
compassion and gender reported in this paper. Furthermore, LMS
can be implemented where measurement structures are complex,
as in the present context in which the interaction was between
latent variables consisting of continuous (in the case of self-com-
passion) and binary (in the case of self-esteem) indicators.
Standardized effects were calculated by the formulas provided by
Mùthen (2012).
2.3.2. Missing data and complex survey design
Given that this was a longitudinal study, missing data is a
potential concern. Indeed, 35.7% of the sample completed only
Grade 9 or Grade 10 in this study. In situations such as the present,
it is now well recognized in the social sciences that traditional
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4. approaches to missing data (e.g., listwise or pairwise deletion) are
inappropriate and can lead to biased parameter estimates. Modern
methods like full-information-maximum-likelihood (FIML) pro-
vide a principled approach to missing data which uses all the avail-
able information for parameter estimation (Enders, 2010). This
procedure was employed for all models.
3. Results
Given that all of the constructs considered in this analyses were
assessed by way of self-reports, we considered the possible effect
of shared method variance on the results. It should be noted that
self-reports have been identified as the most adequate source of
information regarding emotional states, such as those considered
in the present study (e.g., Ilies, Fulmer, Spitzmuller, & Johnson,
2009). To ensure common method variance did not play a role,
we estimated a full measurement model including an additional
orthogonal latent method factor related to all items (Podsakoff,
MacKenzie, Lee, & Podsakoff, 2003). The fit of this model, which
included longitudinal measurement invariance for mental health,
was acceptable: v2
(1025) = 1458, CFI = .97, TLI = .97,
RMSEA = .01.1
The variance explained by this self-report method
factor only accounted for an average of 16.2% of the total variance
in the items, which suggests little bias was likely due to method vari-
ance (Lance, Dawson, Birkelbach, & Hoffman, 2010; Podsakoff et al.,
2003; Williams, Cote, & Buckley, 1989). Although common method
bias was likely to be small, all models controlled for the common
method factor.
Table 1 provides latent correlations, means and standard devia-
tions. Importantly, the clear evidence in favor of the fit of the mea-
surement model and the relatively modest latent correlations
provide strong support for the hypothesized measurement struc-
ture that implies self-esteem, self-compassion, and mental health
all measure related but distinct constructs.
We next tested the hypothesized model without the interaction
between self-esteem and self-compassion. In addition, this model
included the regression of T1 mental health, self-compassion, and
self-esteem main effects on T2 mental health. The SEM analyses
revealed significant main effects for T1 mental health (b = .30,
SE = .04, p < .001), and self-esteem (b = .18, SE = .04, p < .001), and
a marginal main effect for self-compassion (b = .07, SE = .04,
p = .09).
We then refitted the model including the latent interaction.
Consistent with our hypothesis, there were significant and
independent main effects of self-esteem (b = .27, SE = .04,
p < .001) and self-compassion (b = .09, SE = .04, p < .05).
Importantly, these effects were qualified by a significant interac-
tion (b = À.09, SE = .04, p < .01). As illustrated in Fig. 2, those low
in self-compassion (À1 SD) showed a stronger relationship
between self-esteem and mental health than those high in self-
compassion. We reran the model controlling for measures of socio-
economic status (mother’s and father’s employment), marital sta-
tus of parents, and gender. Included in this model was a three-
way interaction between self-compassion, self-esteem, and gender.
These background variables did have a significant effect on mental
health (v2
[17] = 203, p < .001), however, follow-up tests suggested
this was due to significant differences in mental health across gen-
der (b = .243, p < .001; Boys were approximately half a point higher
on mental health than girls). Despite this significant difference, the
two-way interaction between self-compassion and self-esteem
remained significant (b = .18, p < .001). The three-way interaction
between self-compassion, self-esteem, and gender was not signifi-
cant (b = .02, p = .54).
4. Discussion
Self-compassion and self-esteem had independent longitudinal
effects on changing mental health, which replicates and extends
previous cross-sectional findings (Neff, 2003a). We found support
for our hypothesis that the longitudinal effect of self-esteem
depended on self-compassion. Both people high and low in self-
compassion benefited from having high self-esteem, with high
self-esteem predicting improvements in mental health a year later.
The effect of self-compassion was only observed amongst those
experiencing low self-esteem: Amongst those high in self-compas-
sion, low self-esteem had little influence on their future mental
health, but amongst those low in self-compassion, low self-esteem
predicted significant drops in mental health.
Our results are consistent with the central idea that self-com-
passionate adolescents forgive personal failings and recognize the
failings as normal. When experiencing thoughts such as ‘‘what is
wrong with me,’’ the self-compassionate adolescents are expected
to treat themselves kindly through accepting imperfection instead
of ruminating about it or treating themselves harshly. Our data
Table 1
Factor correlations, means, and standard deviations.
T1 self-
compassion
T1 self-
esteem
T1 mental
health
T2 mental
health
T1 self-compassion 1
T1 self-esteem À.44 1
T1 mental health .39 .53 1
T2 mental health .25 .35 .40 1
Means 3.05 .66 3.04 3.02
SD .56 .28 .57 .55
Fig. 2. Latent interaction of self-esteem and self-compassion in Grade 9 predicting
residual change in mental health in Grade 10.
1
Note that the fit of this model was similar to that of a model in which item
loadings onto mental health at T1 and T2 were free to vary: v2
(1014) = 1452,
CFI = .97, TLI = .97, RMSEA = .01 Dv2
(11) = 6, p = .87. We relied on the criteria by
Cheung and Rensvold (2002) who suggest invariance between nested models if CFI is
6.01 (we utilized the same criteria for the TLI) and the criteria described by Chen
(2007) who suggest invariance between nested models if RMSEA is 6.015. This
suggests that longitudinal measurement invariance was a viable assumption. We also
tested measurement invariance across gender for self-esteem, self-compassion, and
mental health; all of which models suggested invariance using the criteria above.
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5. supports suggestions that self-compassion protects against nega-
tive self-judgements (Kuyken et al., 2010; Leary et al., 2007; Neff
& Vonk, 2009), facilitating processes such as growth and accep-
tance focused coping (Neff, Hsieh, & Dejitterat, 2005).
The present study focused on a one-year time lag, from Grade 9
to 10. Future research is needed to examine these effects in differ-
ent age groups and different time lags. For example, a diary study
could be used to examine the influence of daily self-esteem and
self-compassion on future well-being. The effects observed here
might be even stronger at shorter time lags but might fade in the
long run. Alternatively, the effects might be weaker at first but
may gain momentum with time as adolescents mature in their
capacity to self-reflect. Also, using a diary study would allow
researchers to more clearly tie self-esteem and self-compassion
to contextual factors such as joyful or stressful life events. It might
also be worthwhile to explore the development of self-esteem,
self-compassion, and mental health over an entire developmental
period from early childhood to later adulthood. This would allow
researchers to identify potential critical periods when self-compas-
sion may be especially important for mental health, for example,
during major life transitions.
Future self-compassion intervention research with adolescence
seems also justified. Past research demonstrates self-compassion
can be cultivated among adults (Adams & Leary, 2007; Birnie,
Speca, & Carlson, 2010; Kuyken et al., 2010; Neff & Germer,
2012). However, past studies among adolescents have focused on
clinical populations (Reddy et al., 2012). The present study sug-
gests that self-compassion might have benefits for a general ado-
lescent population, highlighting the need for further intervention
research.
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