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Self-Compassion during COVID-19 in Non-WEIRD Countries: A Narrative Review

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic impacted people’s mental health negatively worldwide, including in non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic) countries. Self-compassion, kindness and understanding towards oneself in difficult times have received increasing at...

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Autores principales: Kotera, Yasuhiro, Kirkman, Ann, Beaumont, Julie, Komorowska, Magdalena A., Such, Elizabeth, Kaneda, Yudai, Rushforth, Annabel
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10378945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37510457
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11142016
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author Kotera, Yasuhiro
Kirkman, Ann
Beaumont, Julie
Komorowska, Magdalena A.
Such, Elizabeth
Kaneda, Yudai
Rushforth, Annabel
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description The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic impacted people’s mental health negatively worldwide, including in non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic) countries. Self-compassion, kindness and understanding towards oneself in difficult times have received increasing attention in the field of mental health. Self-compassion is strongly associated with good mental health in various populations. This narrative review aimed to synthesise the evidence on self-compassion and mental health in non-WEIRD countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. MEDLINE and PsycINFO were searched for empirical studies. Self-compassion was consistently associated with positive mental health in non-WEIRD countries too. However, how, and to what degree, each component of self-compassion impacts mental health remains to be evaluated across different cultures. Future research such as multi-national intervention studies, or component network meta-analysis, is needed to advance our understanding of how self-compassion improves mental health in different populations.
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spelling pubmed-103789452023-07-29 Self-Compassion during COVID-19 in Non-WEIRD Countries: A Narrative Review Kotera, Yasuhiro Kirkman, Ann Beaumont, Julie Komorowska, Magdalena A. Such, Elizabeth Kaneda, Yudai Rushforth, Annabel Healthcare (Basel) Review The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic impacted people’s mental health negatively worldwide, including in non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic) countries. Self-compassion, kindness and understanding towards oneself in difficult times have received increasing attention in the field of mental health. Self-compassion is strongly associated with good mental health in various populations. This narrative review aimed to synthesise the evidence on self-compassion and mental health in non-WEIRD countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. MEDLINE and PsycINFO were searched for empirical studies. Self-compassion was consistently associated with positive mental health in non-WEIRD countries too. However, how, and to what degree, each component of self-compassion impacts mental health remains to be evaluated across different cultures. Future research such as multi-national intervention studies, or component network meta-analysis, is needed to advance our understanding of how self-compassion improves mental health in different populations. MDPI 2023-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10378945/ /pubmed/37510457 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11142016 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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