العطف على الذات و تقدير الذات و علاقتهما بالعافية النفسية لدى الطلبة الجامعيين

Abstract EN

This study aims to examine self-compassion and its relationship to depression, anxiety and self-esteem among 410 Jordanian college students.

Participants were given Self-Compassion Scale which assesses six different aspects of self compassion : self- kindness, self-judgment, common humanity, isolation, mindfulness, and over-identification, in addition to self-esteem, depression and social anxiety scales.

Findings support the association between self-compassion and its subscales and psychological well-being.

Moreover, results showed that self compassion composites demonstrate different influences, with self-judgment and over-identification were predictive of both self esteem and depression, and self-judgment, common humanity and over-identification were predictive of managing social anxiety.

Furthermore, it was found that self-compassion predicted significant variance in both depression and social anxiety (26 %; 38 %) respectively more strongly than self-esteem does (3.3 % ; 3.2 %).

These results support the hypothesis that self-compassion and self-esteem can be usefully distinguished and that self-compassion contributes unique variance to outcomes over and above that attributable to global self-esteem.

These findings may have important implications for counseling psychologists working with depression and anxiety in adolescence and emerging adulthood in college years (170 words).