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The Korean Journal of Health Psychology

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The effects of perceived stress and self compassion on the relationship between self criticism and depression

The Korean Journal of Health Psychology / The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, (P)1229-070X; (E)2713-9581
2011, v.16 no.1, pp.49-62
https://doi.org/10.17315/kjhp.2011.16.1.004


& (2011). The effects of perceived stress and self compassion on the relationship between self criticism and depression. The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, 16(1), 49-62, https://doi.org/10.17315/kjhp.2011.16.1.004

Abstract

This study was aimed to examine whether or not self critical students are more vulnerable to depression and negative emotional response when they are asked to recall after read the three hypothetical scenarios related to failure or mistakes. Furthermore, the research was to investigate the relationship between self-criticism and depression is mediated by perceived stress, and is moderated by self compassion. 233 participants were college students, who were divided up into 25% of highly critical students and 25% of low critical students. They were asked to complete the questionnaires of depression, perceived stress, and self compassion. The results revealed that the highly self-critical students were more vulnerable to negative emotions, perceived stress, depression and low self-compassion compared to students who were less critical of themselves. Also, it were presented that the relationship between self-criticism and depression is mediated by perceived stress moderated, and is moderated by self compassion. These findings suggest that self-criticism has more negative affect including depression through perceived stress, but it can be overturned by the practice of loving-kindness meditation to one's self. Finally, we discuss limitations of this study and suggest future directions for this research.

keywords
자기비판, 우울, 부정 정서, 지각된 스트레스, 자기자비, self-criticism, depression, negative affect, perceived stress, self-compassion.

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