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KMID : 0981220160160030365
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2016 Volume.16 No. 3 p.365 ~ p.381
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Post-Traumatic Negative Beliefs as a Mediator in the Relationship between Self-Compassion and Psychological Symptoms among Trauma Survivors
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Ahn Ryu-Yeon
Cho Yong-Rae
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Abstract
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The aims of this study were to examine the relations between self-compassion and post-traumatic stress symptoms(PTSS), depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms, and then to shed light on the mechanism underlying these relations in a sample of trauma survivors. Based on previous studies and literature review, we proposed and tested a mediating role of post-traumatic negative beliefs in the relationship between self-compassion and psychological symptoms. Seventy eight survivors of the artillery attack on Yeonpyeong island completed self-report inventories of self-compassion, post-traumatic negative beliefs, PTSS, depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms. Self-compassion showed significant correlations with post-traumatic negative beliefs, depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms. However, self-compassion was not significantly correlated with PTSS. Moreover, post-traumatic negative beliefs mediated the relationship between self-compassion and depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms, as well as PTSS. The bootstrapping method indicated that all these indirect effects were significant. It is suggested that non-significant correlation of self-compassion with PTSS may be due to a suppression effect. These findings suggest that self-compassion may reduce several psychological symptoms such as PTSS through decreased post-traumatic negative beliefs in a sample of trauma survivors.
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KEYWORD
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self-compassion, post-traumatic negative beliefs, trauma, psychological symptoms, mediational effect
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