Self-compassion, Achievement Goals, and Coping with Academic Failure

By K. Neff, Ya-Ping Hsieh, Kullaya Dejitterat. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Self-Compassion: Conceptualizations, Correlates, & Interventions (2011, background): “People who tend to overidentify may magnify the significance of failures (Neff et al., 2005; Shapiro et al., 2007).”
Self-Compassion: Theory, Method, Research, and Intervention. (2022, background): “Research (e.g.,Neff et al. 2005) indicates that self-compassion is positively associated with mastery goals (the intrinsic motivation to learn and grow) and negatively associated with performance goals (the desire to enhance one’s self-image).”
Self-compassion, self-regulation, and health (2011, background): “In brief, self-compassionate people appear to monitor their behaviors and goals in a more straightforward, nonjudgmental, and nondefensive fashion that allows them to make better decisions regarding goal pursuit (Neff et al., 2005).”
The science of self-compassion. (2012, background): “In addition, my colleagues and I (Neff et al., 2005) found that self-compassion was positively associated with mastery goals—the intrinsic motivation to learn and grow—and negatively associated with performance goals—the desire to enhance one’s selfimage (Dweck, 1986).”
The Self-Compassion Scale is a Valid and Theoretically Coherent Measure of Self-Compassion (2016, background): “2005, 2007a, b, 2008); lower levels of depression, anxiety, stress, rumination, self-criticism, perfectionism, body shame, and fear of failure (Breines et al. 2014a, b; Finlay-Jones et al. 2015; Neff 2003a; Neff et al. 2005; Raes 2010), and healthier physiological responses to stress (Breines et al.”
Individual Differences in Self-Compassion: The Role of Attachment and Experiences of Parenting in Childhood (2015, background): “Self-compassion involves a kind and gentle acceptance of one’s own shortcomings and failures, rather than engaging in efforts to avoid or escape from difficult emotion (Allen & Leary, 2010; Neff et al., 2005), again, a feature of attachment avoidance.”
CONTRIBUTION OF SELF-COMPASSION TO COMPETENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH IN SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS (2009, background): “…subscales to measure the three components of self- compassion both positively (mindfulness, common humanity, and self- kindness) and negatively (overidentification, isolation, and self- judgment), her research has treated self- compassion as a uni- form construct (neff, 2003b, neff et al., 2005).”
Self-Compassion in Iranian Muslims: Relationships With Integrative Self-Knowledge, Mental Health, and Religious Orientation (2012, positive): “Research does in fact confirm that self-compassion predicts broadly better psychological functioning (eg, Neff, 2003b ; Neff, Hsieh, & Dejitterat, 2005 ; Neff, Kirkpatrick, & Rude, 2007 ; Neff, Rude, & Kirkpatrick, 2007 ).”
A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between self-compassion and the psychological effects of perceived stress (2018, background): “Some studies have reduced this concern by measuring self-compassion days or weeks before the outcome of interest (e.g., Leary, Tate, Adams, Batts Allen, & Hancock, 2007; Marshall et al., 2015; Neff et al., 2005).”
The Relationship between Self-compassion and Other-focused Concern among College Undergraduates, Community Adults, and Practicing Meditators (2013, background): “Research indicates that selfcompassion is associated with better emotional coping skills (Neff et al., 2005), greater ability to repair negative emotional states (Neely, Schallert, Mohammed, Roberts, & Chen, 2009), and to positive states of being more generally (HollisWalker & Colosimo, 2011; Neff,…”