Self-compassion and Psychological Resilience Among Adolescents and Young Adults

By K. Neff, Pittman McGehee. 2010

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Individual Differences in Self-Compassion: The Role of Attachment and Experiences of Parenting in Childhood (2015, background): “Neff and McGeehee (2010) found that attachment security was related to higher self-compassion, whereas preoccupied and fearful attachments (both high in attachment anxiety) were associated with lower self-compassion.”
A Pilot Study of Contemplative Practices with Economically Disadvantaged Preschoolers: Children’s Empathic and Self-Regulatory Behaviors (2016, background): “Compassion has become increasingly recognized as indicative of psychological resilience and has been suggested to promote positive intergroup relationships across the lifespan (Greenberg and Harris 2012; Neff and McGehee 2010; Welker et al. 2014).”
Self-compassion, Interpersonal Conflict Resolutions, and Well-being (2013, background): “Higher levels of self-compassion have been associated with lower levels of depression, anxiety, maladaptive perfectionism, thought suppression, fear of failure, and egocentrism (Neff, 2003a ; Neff, Hseih, & Dejitthirat, 2005 ; Neff, Kirkpatrick, & Rude, 2007 ; Neff & McGehee, 2010 ).”
The Relationships Between Cognitive Flexibility with Dogmatism, Intellectual Flexibility, Preference for Consistency, and Self-Compassion (2011, background): “Higher self-compassion scores have been linked to better adaptive and psychological functioning and wellbeing (Neff, 2003a; Neff, Kirkpatrick, & Rude, 2007) not only in adults, but in adolescents as well (Neff & McGehee, 2010).”
Association Between Mindful Parenting and Adolescents’ Internalizing Problems: Non-judgmental Acceptance of Parenting as Core Element (2015, background): “In addition, higher levels of self-compassion have been found to be associated with lower levels of depression and anxiety in (young) adults as well as adolescents (Neff et al. 2007; Neff and McGehee 2010).”
A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between self-compassion and the psychological effects of perceived stress (2018, neutral): “…(e.g., Allen, Goldwasser, & Leary, 2012; Fong & Loi, 2016; Homan, 2016; Hope, Koestner, & Milyavskaya, 2014; Marshall & Brockman, 2016; Neff, 2011; Neff & McGehee, 2010), but some studies have examined cognitive outcomes such as ruminative thoughts, negative self-views, and suicidal ideation…”
Activating the inner caregiver: The role of support-giving schemas in increasing state self-compassion (2013, background): “Received 7 March 2012 Revised 25 July 2012 Available online 11 August 2012”
The science of self-compassion. (2012, background): “People who lack self-compassion are more likely to have critical mothers, come from dysfunctional families, and display insecure attachment patterns than self-compassionate people do (Neff & McGeehee, 2010).”
The Relationship between Self-compassion and Other-focused Concern among College Undergraduates, Community Adults, and Practicing Meditators (2013, background): “Given that women have sometimes been found to be less self-compassionate than men (Neff, 2003a ; Neff & McGehee, 2010 ; Neff & Vonk, 2009 ), yet also tend to be more sympathetic to others than men (Eisenberg & Lennon, 1983 ), it may be that women show a greater discrepancy between how they treat”
Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Self-Compassion (2015, background): “Several studies have found that females have lower levels of self-compassion than males (Neff, 2003a; Neff, Hseih, Dejitthirat, 2005; Neff & McGehee, 2010; Raes, 2010; Yarnell & Neff, 2012), while others have not found signiﬁcant sex differences (Iskender, 2009; Neff, Pisitsungkagarn, & Hseih,…”
Construct validity of the Self-Compassion Scale-Short Form among psychotherapy clients (2016, background): “In addition, people who lack self-compassion are more likely to have critical mothers, come from dysfunctional families, and display insecure attachment patterns than those with greater selfcompassion (Neff & McGehee, 2010; Wei, Liao, Ku, & Shaffer, 2011).”
Self-compassion and psychological well-being among adolescents in Hong Kong: Exploring gender differences (2016, result): “While some found females reported lower self-compassion than males (Neff, 2003a; Neff & McGehee, 2010), others did not obtain significant results (Neff, Pisitsungkagarn, & Hsieh, 2008; Yang, 2016).”
Adolescent self-compassion: Associations with narcissism, self-esteem, aggression, and internalizing symptoms in at-risk males (2015, background): “Neff and McGehee (2010) speculate that to the extent that adolescents hold a personal fable, they may also have a diminished sense of self-compassion.”
Self-Compassion When Coping With Venture Obstacles: Loving-Kindness Meditation and Entrepreneurial Fear of Failure (2019, background): “Neff and McGehee (2010), for example, found selfcompassion to be an effective intervention target when suffering from negative self- views, and Neff et al. (2005) reported preliminary evidence that, among students, self- compassion is negatively associated with fear of failure and positively…”
Self-Compassion Interventions and Psychosocial Outcomes: a Meta-Analysis of RCTs (2019, background): “…a notable gap in the literature considering the increasing body of research in adolescent samples linking self-compassion to health outcomes such as emotional well-being (Bluth and Blanton 2014; Galla 2016), and resilience against low selfesteem (Marshall et al. 2015; Neff and McGehee 2010).”
Maternal Attachment and Children’s Quality of Life: The Mediating Role of Self-compassion and Parenting Stress (2014, result): “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”