- Title
- The relations between the positive and negative components of self-compassion and depressive symptoms among sexual minority women and men
- Creator
- Shakeshaft, Rhianydd; McLaren, Suzanne
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/185892
- Identifier
- vital:16795
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-021-01696-4
- Identifier
- ISBN:1868-8527 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Objectives: The experience of depression among sexual minority adults is a cause for concern. Research into protective factors is lacking. Self-compassion is considered to promote adaptive coping strategies and is associated with fewer depressive symptoms. The aim of this study was to investigate whether self-compassion and its components were associated with depressive symptoms among sexual minority adults and whether these relations were moderated by gender. Methods: A sample of 499 sexual minority women aged 18 to 77 years (M = 29.45, SD = 9.97) and 457 sexual minority men aged 18 to 79 years (M = 27.05, SD = 9.12) completed the Center for Epidemiology-Depression Scale and the Self-Compassion Scale. Results: Higher levels of self-compassion, self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness and lower levels of self-judgement, isolation, and over-identification were associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms. When all six components were entered simultaneously into a regression model, only the negative components predicted levels of depressive symptoms. Gender moderated the common humanity-depressive symptoms relation, with this relation being stronger for women than men. Conclusions: Results indicate that the negative components of self-compassion are associated with depressive symptoms among sexual minority adults and that the strength of the relations are not conditional on gender. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Relation
- Mindfulness Vol. 13, no. 1 (2022), p. 57-65
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021, The Author(s)
- Subject
- 5201 Applied and developmental psychology; 5203 Clinical and health psychology; 5205 Social and personality psychology; Depressive symptoms; Gender; Self-compassion; Sexual minority adults
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