Activating the inner caregiver: The role of support-giving schemas in increasing state self-compassion
Activating the inner caregiver: The role of support-giving schemas in increasing state self-compassion
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jesp.2012.07.015
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Chen, Serena
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作者：
Breines, Juliana G.;Chen, Serena
自我同情，包括以同情心对待自己的痛苦，反映了给予他人支持的人际经验。在四个实验中，我们检验了激活支持图式可以增加状态自我同情的假设。在实验1和2中，参与者首先回忆起一个负面事件（实验1）或经历了一次实验室测试失败（实验2），然后被随机分配回忆一次给予支持的经历，而不是与另一个人一起玩，最后完成了一项自我同情的测量。实验3和4研究的影响，实际上给予支持，以另一个人（通过书面建议），不给予支持或只是阅读关于另一个人的问题相比，并评估了努力投入写一个自我安慰的声明，可操作的声明长度（实验3），和自我报告的自我同情（实验4）。正如预测的那样，两种形式的支持图式激活都会增加自我同情。涉及影响，自尊，和他人的问题意识的替代解释进行了讨论。这些结果表明，增加对自己的同情的一种方法是将它给予他人。(C)2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Self-compassion, which involves treating one's own suffering with compassion, mirrors the interpersonal experience of giving support to others. In four experiments we examined the hypothesis that activating support-giving schemas can increase state self-compassion. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants first recalled a negative event (Experiment 1) or experienced a lab-based test failure (Experiment 2), then were randomly assigned to recall an experience of giving support to versus having fun with another person, and finally completed a measure of state self-compassion. Experiments 3 and 4 examined the effects of actually giving support to another person (via written advice), compared to not giving support or simply reading about another's problem, and assessed effort invested in writing a self-comforting statement, operationalized as statement length (Experiment 3), and self-reported self-compassion (Experiment 4). As predicted, both forms of support-giving schema activation increased self-compassion. Alternative explanations involving affect, self-esteem, and awareness of others' problems were addressed. These results suggest that one way to increase compassion for the self is to give it to others. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.