Self-Compassion as a Mediator of Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depressive Symptoms in College Students

By Kristin E. Mehr, Aimee C. Adams. 2016

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Aneta V. Lalova
2. E. J. Lumley
3. Maree J. Abbott
4. Joachim Stoeber
5. Ashish Harrysunker
6. Caroline Hunt
7. Mengxi Yin
8. Alissa Beath

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Aneta V. Lalova
2. E. J. Lumley
3. Joachim Stoeber
4. Ashish Harrysunker
5. Caroline Hunt
6. Mengxi Yin
7. Alissa Beath
8. Madeleine Ferrari

Citations in the corpus

• Self-Compassion Interventions and Psychosocial Outcomes: a Meta-Analysis of RCTs (2019, background): “Dispositional self-compassion appears to predict the lack of typical markers of psychological disturbance such as neurotic perfectionism (Mehr and Adams 2016) and thought rumination (Svendsen et al.”
• The Misunderstood Schema of the Strong Black Woman: Exploring Its Mental Health Consequences and Coping Responses Among African American Women (2020, background): “Research has shown that self-compassion is negatively correlated with MP (Neff, 2003a) and mediates the relation between MP and depression symptoms (Mehr & Adams, 2016).”
• Perfectionism, (self-)compassion, and subjective well-being: A mediation model (2020, background): “Moreover, recent findings suggest that the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and depression is mediated by self-compassion (Mehr & Adams, 2016).”