The Relationship Between Self-Compassion and Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis.

By Ulli Zessin, Oliver Dickhäuser, S. Garbade. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 2015

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• A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between self-compassion and the psychological effects of perceived stress (2018, methodology): “We have known for many years that self-compassion correlates with an array of indices of well-being, including depression and anxiety (for reviews, see MacBeth & Gumley, 2012; Neff, 2009; Zessin et al., 2015).”
• Self-compassion and Posttraumatic Growth: Cognitive Processes as Mediators (2017, background): “Recent metaanalyses showed that self-compassion is significantly associated with better cognitive and psychological well-being (Zessin et al. 2015) and less psychopathology (MacBeth and Gumley 2012).”
• The Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale and Academic Achievement: An Overview of the Prevailing Literature and a Meta-analysis (2020, background): “Coding Strategy The study recorded numerous publication, demographic and descriptive characteristics, as well as data relating to the effect sizes and possible moderator variables (Zessin et al., 2015).”
• Effectiveness of Self-Compassion Related Therapies: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2018, unknown): “…large correlations between higher levels of self-compassion and lower levels of depression, anxiety and stress in adults (r = − 0.54; MacBeth and Gumley 2012) and adolescents (r = − 0.55; Marsh et al. 2018), as well as greater overall psychological well-being (r = 0.47; Zessin et al. 2015).”
• The Self-Compassion Scale is a Valid and Theoretically Coherent Measure of Self-Compassion (2016, background): “One of the most consistent findings is that self-compassion is related to psychological wellbeing (Barnard and Curry 2011; Zessin et al. 2015).”
• Self-Compassion: Theory, Method, Research, and Intervention. (2022, background): “The empirical literature strongly supports the link between self-compassion and well-being (Neff et al. 2018a, Phillips & Hine 2021, Zessin et al. 2015).”
• Gender Differences in Self-Compassion: Examining the Role of Gender Role Orientation (2018, background): “Research typically shows that self-compassion is positively associated with psychological wellbeing (Barnard and Curry 2012; Zessin et al. 2015).”
• Does Self-Compassion Entail Reduced Self-Judgment, Isolation, and Over-Identification? A Response to Muris, Otgaar, and Petrocchi (2016) (2016, result): “Neff and Germer (2013) found that participation in MSC had a moderate to large effect on anxiety and depression (Cohen’s d=0.76 and 0.86, respectively) in keeping with meta-analyses of studies using an SCS total score (MacBeth and Gumley 2012; Zessin et al. 2015).”
• Self-Compassion Interventions and Psychosocial Outcomes: a Meta-Analysis of RCTs (2019, background): “In addition to an absence of psychopathology, self-compassion has also been linked with greater selfreported psychological well-being (r = 0.47; Zessin et al. 2015).”