Psychology
Zahra Motlagh; MAHDI KHANJANI; Faramarz Sohrabi
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Empathy is one of the components of improving interpersonal interactions that originates from childhood experiences during caregiver-child interactions. Base on this fact, it is reasonable to consider positive and negative childhood experiences as a determining factor in the formation of people's empathy ...
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Empathy is one of the components of improving interpersonal interactions that originates from childhood experiences during caregiver-child interactions. Base on this fact, it is reasonable to consider positive and negative childhood experiences as a determining factor in the formation of people's empathy capacity. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and cognitive and emotional empathy, considering the mediating role of self-compassion .For this purpose, in a descriptive and correlational research, 240 students of different faculties of Allameh Tabataba’i University of Tehran were selected by proportional sampling process. Data were collected by childhood trauma questionnaire, empathy questionnaire and self-compassion scale and by using structural equation modeling and path analysis were analyzed.The findings of the research showed that there is no relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and emotional empathy regarding the mediating role of self-compassion; whereas, childhood traumatic experiences through self-compassion can affect cognitive empathy. Also, childhood emotional and physical traumatic experiences through self-compassion can affect empathy; however, due to dysfunctional emotion regulation mechanisms there is no relationship between the childhood sexual traumatic experiences and empathy, regarding to the mediating role of self-compassion. Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that the proposed model explains the relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and cognitive and emotional empathy by considering the role of self-compassion.
Educational Psychology
Ali Mostafaee; Jila Ahmadi
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The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between perceived social support and academic well-being of female students of the second year of high school in Mahabad city with the mediating role of self-compassion and pleasure-seeking. The research method is descriptive ...
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The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between perceived social support and academic well-being of female students of the second year of high school in Mahabad city with the mediating role of self-compassion and pleasure-seeking. The research method is descriptive and correlation type. The statistical population was the total female students of the second period of high school in Mahabad city, whose number was 3621. 348 students (After removing 35 incomplete questionnaires) were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research instruments were zimet et al.'s Perceived Social Support Scale (1988), Tuominen-Soinie etal.'s Academic Well-Being (2012), Neff's Self-Compassion scale (2003), and Snaith_Hamilton's anhedonia Scale (1995). Data were analyzed with spss 26 and pls 3 software. The results showed that there is a positive relationship (0.01) between pleasure seeking and academic well-being between perceived social support and academic well-being; Perceived social support and hedonism; self-compassion and academic well-being; and there is a positive relationship between perceived social support and self-compassion (0.05). Self-compassion plays a mediating role between perceived social support and academic well-being; Hedonism also plays a mediating role in the relationship between perceived social support and academic well-being.
Afsane Safarpour; Mohammad Ghamari; Simin Hosseinian
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Aim: Self-injury is a mechanism adolescents use to protect their fragile selves from the pressures of this period, which often cause severe physical and mental harm to themselves. To prevent or reduce these behaviors in adolescents, it is necessary to obtain appropriate information about ...
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Aim: Self-injury is a mechanism adolescents use to protect their fragile selves from the pressures of this period, which often cause severe physical and mental harm to themselves. To prevent or reduce these behaviors in adolescents, it is necessary to obtain appropriate information about this structure and identify the factors affecting them; therefore, the research was conducted to model the structural relationships between social cognition and identity styles, and self-injury behaviors with mediating role of self-compassion in adolescents. Method: The research method was correlational with the structural equations modeling type. The statistical population of the study included all adolescents aged 14-16 years, studying in public schools in Karaj in the academic year 2020-2021, from whom 247 people were selected online using the convenience sampling method. The identity Styles Inventory (Berzonsky, 1989), Social Cognition Inventory (Nejati, et al., 2018), Self-Injury Behavior Inventory (Klonsky & Glenn, 2009) Self-compassion Scale (Neff, 2003) were applied to collect data. Results: The results of the evaluation of the proposed model by structural equations in SPSS23 and Smart PLS3 software showed the direct and negative significant effects of identity styles (P < 0.01) and self-compassion (P < 0.05) on self-injury behaviors. Conclusion: The direct and negative effects of social cognition on self-injury behaviors were significant (P < 0.05), but the indirect effects of social cognition on self-injury behaviors were not significant.
mahsa babamohammadi; Parviz Sabahi; mahmmod najafi
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Objective: The concept self has been considered by psychologists as one of the important concepts. The concept of possible self is one of the dimensions of our knowledge, which plays an important role in people's thinking and decision about their future. Hence, it seems to be related to variables such ...
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Objective: The concept self has been considered by psychologists as one of the important concepts. The concept of possible self is one of the dimensions of our knowledge, which plays an important role in people's thinking and decision about their future. Hence, it seems to be related to variables such as perfectionism, self-compassion, and proactive coping. The purpose of this study was to compare perfectionism, self-compassion, and proactive coping among students with positive and negative possible selves. Method: The research sample consisted of 300 students of Shahrood industrial University who were selected by convenience sampling method and answered to perfectionism, self-compassion, proactive coping and possible selves questionnaire. Of these, according to the criteria for entry and exit, two groups of 40 people with positive and negative possible selves were selected. Data were analyzed by using multivariable analysis of variance. Results: The results showed that between groups, in terms of perfectionism, subscale of community-oriented perfectionism, and in the variable of self-compassion, there is a meaningful difference in self-kindness, self-judgment and over-identification subscales. There was also a significant difference between the two groups in terms of proactive coping. Conclusion: Overall, the results of this study showed that self-compassion, perfectionism, and proactive coping have an important role in people's possible selves.
hamed khashanaki; Nima Ghorbani; Javad Hatami
Volume 6, Issue 2 , February 2018, , Pages 39-57
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Introduction: Research shows a controversy concerning the relationship between social desirability and physical and mental health. The aim of the present study was to examine how social desirability as a personality trait is associated with physical and mental health and how it has been misused. ...
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Introduction: Research shows a controversy concerning the relationship between social desirability and physical and mental health. The aim of the present study was to examine how social desirability as a personality trait is associated with physical and mental health and how it has been misused. Method: The research design included two studies. In the first study, a sample of 220 students (95 males and 125 female) from the University of Tehran completed the Social Desirability (Balard, 1992), Self-Compassion (Raes et al, 2011), Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (Brown & Ryan, 2003), Subjective Vitality (Ryan & frederick, 1997), General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg et al, 1997), and Symptom Checklist (Bartone, 1995). In the second study, the persons with high and low self-compassion were exposed to socially desirable and common situation, then their physical symptoms were evaluated. Results: The correlation and regression analysis showed that social desirability had a positive relationship with self-compassion and mindfulness, but if it not associate with self-compassion and mindfulness, it might not predict physical and mental health. The comparison of groups also showed that high self-compassionate persons compared to low self-compassionate persons had some less negative symptoms during experience of socially desirable behaviour.Conclusion: A socially desirable behaviour might be compatible when it has been associated with self-regulation processes including mindfulness and self-compassion.
