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- Title
Self-Compassion and Anxiety in Adolescents with and without Anxiety Disorder.
- Authors
Tali, Edibe; Potharst, Eva S.; de Bruin, Esther I.; Utens, Elisabeth M. W. J.
- Abstract
Previous studies have linked self-compassion to mental health, specifically anxiety, in non-clinical adolescents, suggesting that self-compassion can be a protective factor against anxiety. This study compared the overall level of self-compassion and (un)compassionate self-responding in adolescents with and without an anxiety disorder and assessed the association between self-compassion and anxiety. This cross-sectional study included adolescents (12–19 years) with an anxiety disorder (N = 23) and a reference group (N = 28). Participants completed the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) and State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Results showed that overall self-compassion and uncompassionate self-responding were significantly lower and higher in the clinical than the reference group, respectively, while compassionate self-responding did not differ between groups. In the clinical group, only uncompassionate self-responding was significantly associated with higher anxiety. In the reference group, uncompassionate self-responding showed a significant positive association with anxiety, and compassionate self-responding showed a significant negative association with anxiety. Although the results suggest that low uncompassionate self-responding may buffer against anxiety, the role of compassionate and uncompassionate self-responding remains unclear. An alternative explanation is that the uncompassionate self-responding items measure the presence of psychopathology in adolescents with an anxiety disorder. More research on the construct validity of the SCS uncompassionate self-responding scale is needed.
- Subjects
MINDFULNESS; STATISTICS; SELF-perception; CROSS-sectional method; REGRESSION analysis; COMPARATIVE studies; CRONBACH'S alpha; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); T-test (Statistics); CHI-squared test; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ANXIETY; METROPOLITAN areas; DATA analysis software; DATA analysis; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; CHILDREN
- Publication
Children, 2023, Vol 10, Issue 7, p1181
- ISSN
2227-9067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/children10071181