Self‐compassion promotes social safeness in patients with eating disorders: A 12‐week longitudinal study

British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 31, 2025

Abstract Objectives Social safeness, the affective experience of being comforted and soothed by others, promotes positive mental health when compromised, contributes to illness. Although there is some knowledge about factors that give rise social research has focused on developmental predictors such as parental warmth, leaving it unclear how adults who lacked these early experiences can feel socially safe. Self‐compassion a skill be cultivated; involves directing warmth inward may thereby facilitate emotional states akin safeness. We tested this theory in population known for low with eating disorders, examining whether increases self‐compassion facilitated subsequent safeness during cognitive‐behavioural group‐based treatment. Design A longitudinal design was used. Methods Eighty‐six patients disorders completed Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire, Self‐Compassion Scale, Safeness Pleasure Scale approximately every three weeks over 12‐week intensive disorder treatment program. Results Multilevel modelling revealed following periods increased self‐compassion, individuals reported higher levels ( B t1 = .16, p < .01; t2 .18, .05). Additionally, average course experienced .53, .01). Conclusion Findings suggest cultivation feelings generally lack. therefore highlight role development play fostering people psychological disorders.

Language: Английский

The impact of loneliness on sleep quality in adolescents: a moderated chain mediation model

Current Psychology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 43(35), P. 28121 - 28133

Published: Aug. 19, 2024

Language: Английский