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Self‐compassion and social anxiety: The mediating effect of emotion regulation strategies and the influence of depressed mood
OBJECTIVES: Self‐compassion constitutes a positive way of relating towards the self that enables emotional regulation and reduces emotional distress. This research first explored differences among a sample of persons with social anxiety disorder (SAD) and groups of high socially anxious (HSA) and lo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9796305/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35859529 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/papt.12417 |
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author | McBride, Nicholas Luke Bates, Glen W. Elphinstone, Brad Whitehead, Richard |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Self‐compassion constitutes a positive way of relating towards the self that enables emotional regulation and reduces emotional distress. This research first explored differences among a sample of persons with social anxiety disorder (SAD) and groups of high socially anxious (HSA) and low socially anxious (LSA) students on self‐compassion, emotion regulation, and social anxiety. We then investigated emotional regulation as a mediator of the prediction of social anxiety by self‐compassion and the influence of depressed mood on those relationships. DESIGN: Study 1 compared a SAD group to matched groups of HSA and LSA students. Study 2 utilized the total sample (n = 330 students and n = 33 SAD) to test mediation. Self‐compassion and emotion regulation were predictors of social anxiety and depression a covariate. RESULTS: In Study 1, the SAD group did not differ from the HSA group on most aspects of self‐compassion and emotional regulation but was higher on depression. Both were lower on most measures and higher on depression than the LSA group. In Study 2, higher self‐compassion predicted lower social interaction anxiety, and emotional regulation strategies mediated this effect, regardless of depression. However, for social performance anxiety, controlling for depression removed mediation. Refraining from uncompassionate responses was directly connected to social anxiety, whereas compassionate responses influenced social anxiety via emotional regulation. CONCLUSIONS: Results affirm the ameliorative role of self‐compassion on social anxiety and emotion regulation strategies as mechanisms of that influence. However, self‐compassion's influence was affected by depression and type of social anxiety. Also, refraining from uncompassionate self‐responding appears to be of prime importance in predicting social anxiety, whereas compassionate self‐responding influences social anxiety via emotion regulation. |
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spelling | pubmed-97963052022-12-30 Self‐compassion and social anxiety: The mediating effect of emotion regulation strategies and the influence of depressed mood McBride, Nicholas Luke Bates, Glen W. Elphinstone, Brad Whitehead, Richard Psychol Psychother Research Articles OBJECTIVES: Self‐compassion constitutes a positive way of relating towards the self that enables emotional regulation and reduces emotional distress. This research first explored differences among a sample of persons with social anxiety disorder (SAD) and groups of high socially anxious (HSA) and low socially anxious (LSA) students on self‐compassion, emotion regulation, and social anxiety. We then investigated emotional regulation as a mediator of the prediction of social anxiety by self‐compassion and the influence of depressed mood on those relationships. DESIGN: Study 1 compared a SAD group to matched groups of HSA and LSA students. Study 2 utilized the total sample (n = 330 students and n = 33 SAD) to test mediation. Self‐compassion and emotion regulation were predictors of social anxiety and depression a covariate. RESULTS: In Study 1, the SAD group did not differ from the HSA group on most aspects of self‐compassion and emotional regulation but was higher on depression. Both were lower on most measures and higher on depression than the LSA group. In Study 2, higher self‐compassion predicted lower social interaction anxiety, and emotional regulation strategies mediated this effect, regardless of depression. However, for social performance anxiety, controlling for depression removed mediation. Refraining from uncompassionate responses was directly connected to social anxiety, whereas compassionate responses influenced social anxiety via emotional regulation. CONCLUSIONS: Results affirm the ameliorative role of self‐compassion on social anxiety and emotion regulation strategies as mechanisms of that influence. However, self‐compassion's influence was affected by depression and type of social anxiety. Also, refraining from uncompassionate self‐responding appears to be of prime importance in predicting social anxiety, whereas compassionate self‐responding influences social anxiety via emotion regulation. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-07-20 2022-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9796305/ /pubmed/35859529 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/papt.12417 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The British Psychological Society. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles McBride, Nicholas Luke Bates, Glen W. Elphinstone, Brad Whitehead, Richard Self‐compassion and social anxiety: The mediating effect of emotion regulation strategies and the influence of depressed mood |
title | Self‐compassion and social anxiety: The mediating effect of emotion regulation strategies and the influence of depressed mood |
title_full | Self‐compassion and social anxiety: The mediating effect of emotion regulation strategies and the influence of depressed mood |
title_fullStr | Self‐compassion and social anxiety: The mediating effect of emotion regulation strategies and the influence of depressed mood |
title_full_unstemmed | Self‐compassion and social anxiety: The mediating effect of emotion regulation strategies and the influence of depressed mood |
title_short | Self‐compassion and social anxiety: The mediating effect of emotion regulation strategies and the influence of depressed mood |
title_sort | self‐compassion and social anxiety: the mediating effect of emotion regulation strategies and the influence of depressed mood |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9796305/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35859529 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/papt.12417 |
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