The Role of Self-compassion in Romantic Relationships

By K. Neff, Natasha Beretvas. 2013

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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Maternal Attachment and Children’s Quality of Life: The Mediating Role of Self-compassion and Parenting Stress (2014, background): “This finding is in accordance with the studies developed by Neff and colleagues (Neff and Beretvas 2012; Neff and McGehee 2010), which demonstrated that secure attachment was positively linked to self-compassion, in contrast to insecure attachment styles (fearful and preoccupied), which were negativ”
Individual Differences in Self-Compassion: The Role of Attachment and Experiences of Parenting in Childhood (2015, background): “Further, individuals higher in self-compassion report greater romantic relationship satisfaction (Neff & Beretvas, 2013).”
Self-Compassion and Dispositional Mindfulness Are Associated with Parenting Styles and Parenting Stress: the Mediating Role of Mindful Parenting (2016, background): “…associated with a variety of positive individual outcomes (e.g., higher levels of optimism, happiness, and positive affect; Neff 2003; Neff et al. 2007), but also has been proven to benefit others as well as interpersonal relationships (Neff 2012; Neff and Beretvas 2013; Yarnell and Neff 2013).”
Self-Compassion and Well-Being in Parents of Children with Autism (2014, background): “The scale demonstrates convergent validity (e.g., correlates with partner ratings), discriminate validity (e.g., no correlation with social desirability), and good test-retest reliability (Neff 2003a; Neff and Beretvas 2013).”
Self-compassion in clinical practice. (2013, background): “Selfcompassionate individuals are described by their romantic partners as being more emotionally connected, accepting, and autonomy-supporting while being less detached, controlling, and aggressive than those lacking self-compassion (Neff & Beretvas, 2012).”
Old Wine in New Bottles? The Case of Self–Compassion and Neuroticism (2017, methodology): “…loadings fixed to equality, is implicitly assumed when researchers simply sum across all items of the SCS, as is typically performed in research on self-compassion (e.g. Bergen-Cico & Cheon, 2014; Birnie, Speca, & Carlson, 2010; Neff & Beretvas, 2013; Neff & Faso, 2015; Schoenefeld & Webb, 2013).”
New frontiers in understanding the benefits of self-compassion (2018, background): “…role of self-compassion in terms of health (e.g., Biber & Ellis, 2017), body image and disordered eating (e.g., Braun, Park & Gorin, 2016), motivation (e.g., Breines & Chen, 2012), interpersonal relationships (Neff & Beretvas, 2013) and physiological functioning (e.g., Arch, Landy & Brown, 2016).”
Relating Mindfulness, Heartfulness, and Psychological Well-Being: the Role of Self-Compassion and Gratitude (2018, result): “…with others, this effect is consistent with the literature showing that self-compassionate people easily extend the kindness and care they feel towards themselves to others, and particularly to their relationship partners, and this improves relationship quality (e.g., Neff and Beretvas 2013).”
Self-Compassion and Psychological Well-being (2017, background): “In a study of heterosexual couples (Neff & Beretvas, 2013), individuals who were more selfcompassionate were described by their partners as being more emotionally connected, accepting and autonomy-supporting while being less detached, controlling, and verbally or physically aggressive than those…”
The Role of Self-Compassion in Goal Pursuit and Well-Being Among University Freshmen (2014, background): “…(sample item: “When I’m going through a very hard time, I give myself the caring and tenderness I need”), common humanity, and mindfulness, and the reverse scores of the three negative facets, self-judgment, isolation, and over-identification (e.g., as recommended by Neff & Beretvas, 2013).”
Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Self-Compassion (2015, background): “…are signiﬁcantly correlated with therapist and partner ratings of self-compassion), and discriminate validity (e.g., no correlation with social desirability or narcissism), and that the SCS has excellent test–retest reliability (Neff, 2003a; Neff & Beretvas, 2013; Neff, Kirkpatrick, et al., 2007).”
The Self-Compassion Scale is a Valid and Theoretically Coherent Measure of Self-Compassion (2016, background): “70) between self-reported and partnerreported scores on the SCS among couples in long-term romantic relationships (Neff and Beretvas 2013).”
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) (2019, background): “Neff and Beretvas (2013) found that people high in self-compassion are described by romantic partners as more emotionally connected and supportive and less detached and controlling than those low in self-compassion.”