SELF-COMPASSION SOOTHES THE SAVAGE EGO-THREAT SYSTEM: EFFECTS ON NEGATIVE AFFECT, SHAME, RUMINATION, AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS

By Edward A. Johnson, K. O'Brien. 2013

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Does Self-Compassion Entail Reduced Self-Judgment, Isolation, and Over-Identification? A Response to Muris, Otgaar, and Petrocchi (2016) (2016, background): “…decreases depressed mood among people with major depressive disorder (Diedrich et al. 2014), reduces depressive symptoms in shame-prone individuals (Johnson and O’Brien 2013), reduces overeating in dieters (Adams and Leary 2007), and reduces disordered eating behavior and body shame in female…”
• The Self-Compassion Scale is a Valid and Theoretically Coherent Measure of Self-Compassion (2016, methodology): “…and mindfulness in response to suffering) have been shown to increase positive affect and motivation but also to decrease negative emotions such as anxiety, shame, and depression (Breines and Chen 2012; Diedrich et al. 2014; Johnson and O’Brien 2013; Leary et al. 2007; Odou and Brinker 2014).”
• The relevance of self‐compassion as an intervention target in mood and anxiety disorders: A narrative review based on an emotion regulation framework (2017, background): “For example, initial evidence suggests that rumination mediates the relationship between self-compassion and symptoms of depression in undergraduate student samples (Johnson & O’Brien, 2013; Raes, 2010) and depressed outpatients (Krieger et al., 2013).”
• Self-Compassion Interventions and Psychosocial Outcomes: a Meta-Analysis of RCTs (2019, background): “There were no child RCT studies which met inclusion criteria for the current review; all included studies investigated adults with the lowest reported mean age being 19.7 years (Johnson and O'Brien 2013).”
• Self-Compassion and Well-Being in Parents of Children with Autism (2014, background): “Depression among parents of children with autism is often fueled by feelings of shame, self-blame, and grief (Cappe et al. 2011; Johnson and O’Brien 2013).”
• Self-Compassion: Theory, Method, Research, and Intervention. (2022, background): “One experimental study asked participants to think of an episode from their past in which they were ashamed of themselves, then asked them to write about the incident self-compassionately ( Johnson & O’Brien 2013).”
• Self-compassion and Posttraumatic Growth: Cognitive Processes as Mediators (2017, background): “Practically, findings may help develop effective brief interventions such as self-compassion writing (Baum and Rude 2013; Johnson and O'Brien 2013; Wong and Mak 2016) to enhance posttraumatic growth among trauma-exposed individuals.”