Testing a Self-Compassion Intervention Among Job Seekers: Self-Compassion Beneficially Impacts Affect Through Reduced Self-Criticism

A Reconsideration of the Self-Compassion Scale’s Total Score: Self-Compassion versus Self-Criticism

The Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) is currently the only self-report instrument to measure self-compassion. The SCS is widely used despite the limited evidence for the scale's psychometric properties, with validation studies commonly performed in college students. The current study examined the factor structure, reliability, and construct validity of the SCS in a large representative sample from t...

Self - criticism and self - compassion : Risk and resilience

Mediators between self-criticism and depression: Fear of compassion, self-compassion, and importance to others.

This study was an investigation of the relationships between internalized self-criticism and depression and between comparative self-criticism and depression as these relationships are mediated by the fear of self-compassion, fear of compassion from others, self-compassion, and the perception that one is important to others. To examine these relationships, data were gathered via online survey m...

A Review of Self Criticism and Self Compassion in mental health

Self-criticism has been introduced as the core pathology of many mental disorders and one of the maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. Numerous studies have confirmed the significance of self-criticism as a meta-diagnostic construct. In the past, self-criticism was equated with shame and perfectionism, but self-criticism has a more limited definition than perfectionism. Self-criticism is a...

The effects of self-construals, self-criticism, and self-compassion on depressive symptoms

The purpose of this exploratory study was to cross-culturally examine associations among self-construals, comparative vs. internalized self-criticisms, self-compassion, and depressive symptoms. 1200 undergraduates in the city of Kyoto, Japan, and 420 college students in Tennessee and Michigan participated in this study. The results indicated that both independent and interdependent self-constru...