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How does self-compassion help people adjust to chronic skin conditions? A template analysis study

OBJECTIVES: Skin conditions can greatly impact people's lives, but greater understanding of the processes involved in positive adjustment is required. Self-compassion has strong links to wellbeing and adaptive functioning and therefore may play an important role in adjustment to skin conditions...

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Autores principales: Clarke, Elaine N., Norman, Paul, Thompson, Andrew R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9606614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36313995
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.974816
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description OBJECTIVES: Skin conditions can greatly impact people's lives, but greater understanding of the processes involved in positive adjustment is required. Self-compassion has strong links to wellbeing and adaptive functioning and therefore may play an important role in adjustment to skin conditions. DESIGN: Template analysis was used to explore how self-compassion operates in people living with skin conditions, with reference to existing theories of self-compassion. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with highly self-compassionate people with chronic skin conditions (N = 10). Theoretical models of self-compassion were used in the development of the initial template and interview schedule. Participants were purposively selected on the basis of having high scores on a measure of self-compassion. RESULTS: Participants reported a variety of ongoing skin-related difficulties and their ways of managing these. Sensitivity to distress and care for wellbeing were identified as foundation themes: necessary components of a compassionate response to distress. Eleven types of difficulty-management strategies built upon these foundation themes: empathy, non-judgement, distress tolerance, self-kindness, mindful attention, perspective-taking, self-talk, self-care, using social support, concealment, and idiosyncratic coping strategies. CONCLUSIONS: Components of self-compassion helped people adjust to chronic skin conditions in a wide variety of ways, indicating that psychological adjustment is not a simple, linear process. Sometimes compassionate responses occurred automatically and sometimes with deliberate effort. Further research on compassion-based interventions for people with skin conditions is warranted.
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spelling pubmed-96066142022-10-28 How does self-compassion help people adjust to chronic skin conditions? A template analysis study Clarke, Elaine N. Norman, Paul Thompson, Andrew R. Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine OBJECTIVES: Skin conditions can greatly impact people's lives, but greater understanding of the processes involved in positive adjustment is required. Self-compassion has strong links to wellbeing and adaptive functioning and therefore may play an important role in adjustment to skin conditions. DESIGN: Template analysis was used to explore how self-compassion operates in people living with skin conditions, with reference to existing theories of self-compassion. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with highly self-compassionate people with chronic skin conditions (N = 10). Theoretical models of self-compassion were used in the development of the initial template and interview schedule. Participants were purposively selected on the basis of having high scores on a measure of self-compassion. RESULTS: Participants reported a variety of ongoing skin-related difficulties and their ways of managing these. Sensitivity to distress and care for wellbeing were identified as foundation themes: necessary components of a compassionate response to distress. Eleven types of difficulty-management strategies built upon these foundation themes: empathy, non-judgement, distress tolerance, self-kindness, mindful attention, perspective-taking, self-talk, self-care, using social support, concealment, and idiosyncratic coping strategies. CONCLUSIONS: Components of self-compassion helped people adjust to chronic skin conditions in a wide variety of ways, indicating that psychological adjustment is not a simple, linear process. Sometimes compassionate responses occurred automatically and sometimes with deliberate effort. Further research on compassion-based interventions for people with skin conditions is warranted. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9606614/ /pubmed/36313995 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.974816 Text en Copyright © 2022 Clarke, Norman and Thompson. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9606614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36313995
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.974816
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