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Self-Compassion: A Potential Shield Against Extreme Self-Reliance?

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  • Ping Ying Choo

    (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

  • Jacob M. Marszalek

    (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

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Can self-compassion protect young adults from the pitfalls of self-reliance? Emerging adults undergo a process of exploring their identities and establishing significant relationships that is vulnerable to stressors. Extreme self-reliance exacerbates this because of a lack of access to emotional support, threatening their well-being. Self-compassion facilitates emotional regulation and enhanced coping, which may protect young adults’ well-being from the consequences of self-reliance. We explored (a) the relationships among self-reliance, self-compassion and its elements (i.e., self-kindness, self-judgment, mindfulness, over-identification, common humanity, and isolation), and well-being, and (b) the potential of self-compassion as either a buffer or a mediator of the relationship between self-reliance and well-being. At an urban Midwestern public university, we recruited 208 young adults aged between 18 and 30 years (M = 21.94, SD = 3.49) with diverse backgrounds. We found that self-reliance, self-judgment, over-identification, and isolation were moderately-to-strongly negatively correlated with well-being, and that self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity were moderately-to-strongly (i.e., .30

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  • Ping Ying Choo & Jacob M. Marszalek, 2019. "Self-Compassion: A Potential Shield Against Extreme Self-Reliance?," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 971-994, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jhappi:v:20:y:2019:i:3:d:10.1007_s10902-018-9978-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s10902-018-9978-y
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