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  • COVID-19 has brought tremendous and abrupt threats to various aspects of our daily lives, from school and work to interpersonal relationships. Self-compassion is put forth as a salutogenic perspective on oneself that buffers the adverse mental health impacts of these threats. During the peak of a local outbreak in Hong Kong in Spring 2020, 761 participants completed questionnaires on self-compassion, perceived threats, as well as perceived benefits and psychological distress. Controlling for demographic variables, negative indicators of self-compassion (aka self-coldness) was found to intensify the impacts of threats on psychological distress. The positive indicators of self-compassion also moderated the link between threats and perceived benefits, such that perceived benefits tend to be less related to threats in participants with higher self-compassion. Our findings highlight the impacts of both positive and negative indicators of self-compassion on the adjustment to such unprecedented challenges, and point to the possibility of enhancing people\'s resilience through fostering self-compassion and alleviating self-coldness.
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?:doi
  • 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.585270
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?:journal
  • Front_Psychiatry
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  • cc-by
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  • document_parses/pdf_json/55559b408e6b11f1c20fd45359505132579d82ae.json
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  • document_parses/pmc_json/PMC7674650.xml.json
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  • 33250793.0
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  • Medline; PMC
?:title
  • Self-Compassion Buffers the Adverse Mental Health Impacts of COVID-19-Related Threats: Results From a Cross-Sectional Survey at the First Peak of Hong Kong\'s Outbreak
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  • 2020-11-05

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