| When Leaving Your Ex, Love Yourself: Observational Ratings of Self-Compassion Predict the Course of Emotional Recovery Following Marital Separation. | |
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PMID: 22282874 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Divorce is a highly stressful event, and much remains to be learned about the factors that promote psychological resilience when marriages come to an end. In this study, divorcing adults (N = 109) completed a 4-min stream-of-consciousness recording about their marital separation at an initial laboratory visit. Four judges rated the degree to which participants exhibited self-compassion (defined by self-kindness, an awareness of one's place in shared humanity, and emotional equanimity) in their recordings. Judges evidenced considerable agreement in their ratings of participants' self-compassion, and these ratings demonstrated strong predictive utility: Higher levels of self-compassion at the initial visit were associated with less divorce-related emotional intrusion into daily life at the start of the study, and this effect persisted up to 9 months later. These effects held when we accounted for a number of competing predictors. Self-compassion is a modifiable variable, and if our findings can be replicated, they may have implications for improving the lives of divorcing adults. |
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David A Sbarra; Hillary L Smith; Matthias R Mehl |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-1-26 |
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Title: Psychological science Volume: - ISSN: 1467-9280 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2012 Jan |
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Created Date: 2012-1-27 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9007542 Medline TA: Psychol Sci Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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University of Arizona. |
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