TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dreisörner, Aljoscha
A1  - Junker, Nina Mareen
A1  - Dick, Rolf van
T1  - The relationship among the components of self-compassion: a pilot study using a compassionate writing intervention to enhance self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness
T2  - Journal of happiness studies
N2  - Self-compassion has been theorized to have three components, each with a positive pole and a negative pole: self-kindness versus self-judgment, common humanity versus isolation, and mindfulness versus over-identification. Neff (Self Identity 2:85–101, 2003a) proposes that they mutually influence each other, however, this proposition has not been tested yet. We conducted a pilot study to see if improvements from training one component spilled over to the other two—and whether these trainings had an impact on well-being. 80 participants completed 8 weeks of self-compassionate writing exercises to enhance either self-kindness, common humanity, or mindfulness. Trait self-compassion was assessed using the six-factor model of the self-compassion scale. To address issues of alpha-error-inflation, the false discovery rate was fixed at 5%, and critical p values were adjusted accordingly. Participants in the mindfulness condition reported increased total self-compassion (p = .009), which was accompanied by increased self-kindness (p = .027) and lower isolation (p = .045). Participants in the common humanity condition reported improved total self-compassion (p = .018), lower over-identification (p = .045), and higher life-satisfaction (p = .049). The training in self-kindness failed to improve self-kindness or any other factor. These findings provide initial evidence that the components of self-compassion mutually enhance each other. They also emphasize the importance of mindfulness within the conceptualization of self-compassion.
KW  - Self-compassion
KW  - Self-kindness
KW  - Common humanity
KW  - Mindfulness
KW  - Compassionate writing exercises
KW  - Well-being
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63738
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-637386
SN  - 1573-7780
N1  - Open Access funding provided by Projekt DEAL. We thank Joost van Ginkel and Johannes B. Heekerens for their helpful comments during data analysis.
VL  - 22
IS  - 1
SP  - 21
EP  - 47
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V
CY  - Dordrecht [u.a.]
ER  -