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Rushing, Jamie E. "Music Therapists’ Self-Compassion, Compassion for Others, and Professional Quality of Life." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/90.
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As helping professionals, music therapists show compassion to their clients but may lack necessary self-care skills to prevent burnout and promote well-being. Due to a lack of research in this area, this study investigated reported levels of compassion for others, self-compassion, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction among music therapists in relation to age, gender, and years of professional experience. A survey of 575 board certified music therapists in the USA revealed higher levels of compassion for others than self-compassion, low levels of burnout and secondary traumatic stress, and high levels of compassion satisfaction. Burnout strongly negatively correlated with both self-compassion and compassion satisfaction and strongly positively correlated with secondary traumatic stress. A MANCOVA revealed significant differences in compassion for others and compassion satisfaction based on gender, with female participants reporting significantly higher scores for both constructs. Additionally, there was a trend related to self-compassion and compassion levels increasing over time. There were strong associations between compassion and self-compassion with burnout and secondary traumatic stress; therefore, it would benefit music therapists to cultivate compassion practices to lower burnout risk.
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Weibel, David T. "A Loving-Kindness Intervention: Boosting Compassion for Self and Others." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1190652251.
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Skoda, Ashley Mae. "The Relation Between Self-Compassion, Depression, and Forgiveness of Others." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1314061381.
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Straughair, Collette. "Understanding compassion : a constructivist grounded theory study to explore the perceptions of individuals who have experienced nursing care." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2016. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/33325/.
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Background: It has been suggested that compassion is aspirational, rather than a reflection of the reality of contemporary nursing practice. This notion is reflected through reported negative experiences of nursing care, encountered by individuals across a range of age groups and care contexts. In response, a political and professional reaffirmation has ensued to declare that compassion remains a core philosophy of nursing, although this provides limited articulation of what compassion entails. Furthermore, there is limited empirical research to explore compassion exclusively through the perceptions of individuals who have experienced nursing care, highlighting a gap in existing knowledge. Aim: The aim of the research was to address this gap in knowledge and develop a more comprehensive understanding of compassion in nursing. Specifically, the research aimed to explore compassion, exclusively, through the perceptions of individuals who had personal experience of nursing care. Methodology and Methods: A constructivist grounded theory methodology was implemented, influenced by the theoretical perspectives of symbolic interactionism and social constructionism. The target sample population comprised a group of individuals who were in an established role to contribute to teaching and learning strategies to undergraduate health students within the university setting. Applying a theoretical sampling strategy, data was collected via eleven individual interviews, a focus group discussion with three participants and three additional individual interviews. Data was analysed using initial, focused and advanced coding techniques, supported by constant comparative analysis. Findings: Five data categories were generated from analysis. This comprised the four major categories of Self-Propensity for Compassion, Attributes for Compassion, Socialising for Compassion, Conditions for Compassion and the core category of Humanising for Compassion. Advancing reflexivity to consider these data categories at a more conceptual level identified that compassion was fundamentally characterised by experiences of humanising approaches to nursing care, which were dependent upon the equilibrium of five interrelated elements of compassion. These elements comprised Character for Compassion, Competence for Compassion, Motivation for Compassion, Connecting for Compassion and Action for Compassion. The five elements of compassion were subject to further influence by three overarching principal dimensions of compassion, which comprised Compassionate Self, Compassionate Interactions with Others and Compassionate Situational Contexts. In order to reflect participant perceptions of the complex nature of compassion, a grounded theory was constructed and assimilated into The Model of Compassion for Humanising Nursing Care. The new theoretical insight gained from this model provides a more comprehensive understanding of what compassion in nursing involves, offering an original contribution to the existing knowledge base and a foundation from which to address emerging implications for practice and opportunities for future research.
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Williams, Sian. ""If you're kind to me, I'll be kind to you" : compassion to self and others as a dynamic and relational process among young people who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviour : a grounded theory." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/21587/.
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The past decade has seen increasing research interest in compassion to self and others, both as a construct and a likely precipitant of psychological wellbeing. A growing literature base suggests that psychotherapeutic interventions aimed at increasing self-compassion can help to alleviate negative effects often associated with shame and self-criticism. Compassion-focused interventions have subsequently been proposed for populations likely to experience heightened shame. Despite the interest in this area, only limited research has attempted to explore how compassion is understood and experienced among varying populations. Research that has been undertaken has tended to adopt quantitative approaches, utilising self-report measures validated with well-educated, often academic, populations. There is clearly a need for the construct of compassion to be explored with other populations, particularly those who may be disadvantaged and/or at risk of heightened levels of shame. One such population is young people who have come to the attention of services for engaging in harmful sexual behaviour (HSB). This research therefore intended to fill this gap and extend the existing literature base on compassion by employing a qualitative approach. Nine young people (8 males, 1 female) aged 14-18, who were receiving input from youth offending services for HSB, were recruited for this research. Each participant took part in a one-off interview where they were asked about their understanding and experiences of compassion to and from self and others. Adopting a Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology, data were analysed through an iterative process of constant comparison, leading to the construction of a substantive theoretical model grounded in the data. The resultant model explicates the dynamic and relational process of compassion to self and others experienced by young people who have engaged in HSB. The model is considered in relation to existing literature and implications for clinical practice are discussed, along with directions for future research.
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Moore, Simone. "What is the best predictor of emotional distress - mindfulness, self-compassion or other-compassion?" Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2013. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/45261/.
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Aims and objectives. The aim of the current research was to explore the relationship of mindfulness, self- and other-compassion with emotional dysregulation and symptoms in a clinical population suffering from mild-moderate anxiety and depression. Method. In order to investigate the relationships amongst the variables of interest, a cross-sectional design was employed. Quantitative data were collected via five self-report questionnaires measuring mindfulness, self-compassion, other-compassion, emotion dysregulation and emotional distress (anxiety, depression and stress), in addition to demographic information. A total of 94 adults enrolled in Improving Access to Psychological Therapy groups completed the questionnaires. Results. Multiple regression analysis indicated that all three predictor variables (mindfulness, self-compassion and other-compassion) significantly predicted variance within the measure of emotional distress, with mindfulness holding the most predictive power. Only mindfulness and self-compassion significantly predicted variance within the measure of emotion dysregulation, with self-compassion holding the most predictive power. Mediation analysis showed that emotion dysregulation partially mediates the relationship between mindfulness and emotional distress. Additionally, mediation analysis showed that emotion dysregulation perfectly mediates the relationship between self-compassion and 12 emotional distress. Emotion dysregulation did not significantly mediate the relationship between other-compassion and emotional distress. Conclusions. This study was the first to empirically explore the relationship of other-compassion with emotion dysregulation and emotional distress. The current findings suggest that other-compassion was not as important as mindfulness and self-compassion in regards to emotion dysregulation. The role of mindfulness and self-compassion within emotion dysregulation and emotional distress supports previous research findings. It is argued that the current study‟s findings are supportive of theoretical accounts that explain mindfulness and self-compassion as mind-training tools designed to improve emotion regulation in order to reduce emotional distress.
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Hacker, Thomas. "The relational compassion scale : development and validation of a new self rated scale for the assessment of self-other compassion." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/462/.
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Objective: Previous research on the assessment of compassion focussed on self-reported self-compassion measures. This study reported on the development and evaluation of a new compassion scale that expands the previous conceptualisation by incorporating relational aspects of compassion. Methods: In an online study, 201 participants completed the relational compassion scale and a random sample of four questionnaires comprising measures of self-compassion, emotional approach coping, self-attacking/self-criticism and attachment. Moreover, the criterion-based validity of the scale was tested with an extreme group comparison design for which 30 Arts and Engineering students were recruited. Results: Consistent with a relational conceptualisation of compassion, findings supported a four-factor structure of the measure. Furthermore, the scale was positively correlated with measures of self-compassion, emotional approach coping, reassured self and a secure attachment style. However, the self to other compassion factor of the scale did not correlate with the self-attacking/self-criticism scale. Conclusions: Findings suggest that compassion can be conceptualised from within a relational framework. Moreover, this study indicates a need for further research investigating the relationship between self- and other-compassion in clinical samples and the interaction between different affect regulation systems.
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MacBeth, Angus M. "The Narrative Compassion Scale : development and validation of an interview measure of compassion and recovery in complex mental health difficulties." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2875/.
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Objectives: The ability to regulate affect in the face of stress has implications for recovery and chronicity in complex mental health problems such as schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder. In addition to adaptive integrating and maladaptive sealing over recovery styles it may be possible to delineate a further maladaptive recovery style of “ruminative preoccupation”. In addition, the capacity to compassionately relate to self and others may be linked to an recovery trajectories. The current study presents data on the utility of a Narrative Compassion Scale for recovery in a mixed clinical sample of individuals with diagnoses of psychotic disorder (with or without interpersonal violence) and Borderline Personality Disorder Design: A cross-sectional mixed methods design was used with a within subjects condition and three between subjects groups Methods: Forty-Three individuals were interviewed and transcripts coded with the Narrative Compassion Scale (NCS). Self-report measures of compassion, attachment, interpersonal problems and symptoms were completed. Symptomatology was also measured. Results: Three recovery styles were identified. Compassion was strongly positively correlated with Integration; and negatively correlated with Sealing Over. NCS compassion was unrelated to self-reported compassion, symptoms, interpersonal problems or attachment. Differential patterns of recovery emerged between clinical groups, with lower preoccupation and higher sealing-over in the psychosis with history of interpersonal violence group. Conclusions: The NCS is a promising narrative measure of recovery and compassionate responding. Implications are discussed in terms of a transdiagnostic understanding of recovery processes.
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Bove, Frank John. "SOCIAL SELF AND RELIGIOUS SELF: AN INQUIRY INTO COMPASSION AND THE SELF-OTHER DIALECTIC." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1195568243.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2007.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed July 3, 2008). Advisor: Jeffrey Wattles. Keywords: social self; self-other dialectic; pure experience; I-Me; I-Thou; sunyata; kenosis; basho; absolute nothingness; George H. Mead; Nishida Kitaro; Steve Odin. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65).
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Jacobs, Tyler Perry. "Compassion and Pride May Affect Nonconscious Mimicry by Changing Perceptions of Self-Other Similarity." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1563897600756219.
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Quick, Sophia. "Nursing Student Perceptions of Health Care Worker Appearance and Compassion, Skill, Knowledge, and Trustworthiness." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/623.
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Background: Many health care facilities enforce strict dress code policies prohibiting visible body modifications, including tattoos, piercings, and vibrant hair colors. As popularity of body modifications among young adults surges, facilities may be forced to adapt policies as these workers enter the workforce. While some evidence exists related to patient perceptions of health care workers with body modifications, there is little about how nursing students perceive them. This study aimed to describe undergraduate, pre-licensure nursing students’ perceptions of health care worker appearance on compassion, skill, knowledge, and trustworthiness.
Methods: Using cross-sectional design, an on-line Likert-type survey was used to collect data from 137 undergraduate, pre-licensure nursing students in Northeast Tennessee. Participants viewed photos of male and female workers with various body modifications. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: There were statistically significant differences between groups across all four variables. Male and female health care workers without body modifications were rated highest on all four variables. Male and female with tattoos were rated the second highest. Male and female with facial piercings were rated lowest. The female health care worker color, irrespective of body modification type, was rated higher than the male counterpart across all variables.
Conclusion: Results suggest that nursing students may perceive health care workers without body modifications to be the most compassionate, skilled, knowledgeable, and trustworthy. Students may perceive tattoos as more acceptable in the workplace than facial piercings or vibrant hair colors. Students may perceive body modifications as more acceptable for females than males.
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Rabon, Jessica K. "Self-Compassion and Suicidal Behavior: Indirect Effects of Depression, Anxiety, and Hopelessness across Increasingly Vulnerable Samples." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3458.
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Suicide is a significant public health concern worldwide and the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. Risk factors for suicide include depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and previous suicide attempts, among others. Some vulnerable groups may have unique risk factors that exacerbate suicide risk; for instance, college students experience academic stress, and individuals with chronic illnesses, such as fibromyalgia and cancer, face persistent health complications. However, protective characteristics, such as self-compassion, may reduce suicide risk. Comprised of self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity, self-compassion is beneficially associated with mental and physical health, and to the task of suicide prevention. As such, we examined the relation between self-compassion and suicidal behavior, and the potential parallel mediating effects of depression, anxiety, and hopelessness across four samples (community, N = 632; collegiate, N = 338; fibromyalgia, N = 508; cancer, N = 241). Across all four samples, the combined effect of depression, anxiety, and hopelessness mediated the relation between self-compassion and suicidal behavior. Our findings provide support for the notion that self-compassion has a beneficial association with suicidal behavior directly, as well as indirectly via its influence on the suicide risk factors of depression, anxiety, and hopelessness. Increasing self-compassion through interventions such as Compassion-Focused Therapy and Mindful Self-Compassion may not only increase self-compassion, but may also facilitate adaptive coping, particularly in times of distress, that ameliorates symptoms of psychopathology and suicide risk. Future prospective, longitudinal studies, and randomized control trials, are needed to examine causal effects of self-compassion on emotional dysfunction and suicidal behavior.
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Shashok, Alan. "A Midlife Educator’s Story Of Change: How Learning To Live For Compassion, Meaning And Leadership Transformed Me." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2019. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1038.
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What are a person’s core beliefs? What do they hold dear and to be true? How does one go about examining their ideals and challenging them risking discovering there is a different way of living, thinking, or showing up? These questions and more are what drove me to enroll in the University of Vermont Graduate College and the Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS) program. I probably could have attended a few self-help seminars, paid a life coach or seen some type of counselor to help me explore these issues. Doing the exploring via higher education and the IDS program seemed much more meaningful, especially as the program progressed.
Through Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) I have been able to closely examine myself, my life stories, with a different lens, even different then using the advantage of hindsight, in hopes of finding a path toward different self-realization. Important to note I said different, not better, as each person’s experience is valid, something you will see as you read the thesis. In so doing, you will be exposed to three basic explorations, my personal stories, my professional stories, and my political stories. All intertwine and relate to each other, but each have their own narrative to contribute to this journey. By the end, you, as the reader and consumer of these stories, may find similar paths to search for yourself in whatever place you currently find your life.
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Many, Mary Alice. "Efficacy of Self-Care and Traditional Mental Health Counseling in Treating Vicarious Traumatization Among Counselors of Hurricane Katrina Survivors." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1463.
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The population consisted of 9,000 Gulf Coast Licensed Professional Counselors. Surveys were returned by 609 participants. In the researcher-developed demographic survey, 586 individuals responded to the questions regarding age, gender, ethnicity, and years of counseling experience; 585 individuals responded to questions about exposure to prior trauma, and personal Katrina-related losses; 578 individuals responded to the question about the percentage of their work week that was spent counseling victims, and 579 individuals responded to questions regarding the type of mental health care strategy they participated in. There were 439 usable surveys for the PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) (Weathers, Litz, Huska, & Keane, 1994) and 448 for the Compassion Fatigue Subscale of The Compassion Fatigue and Satisfaction Self-Test for Helpers (Figley & Stamm, 1996).
The PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) (Weathers, Litz, Huska, & Keane, 1994) was utilized to evaluate Gulf Coast Licensed Professional Counselors for vicarious traumatization within the first year of working with Hurricane Katrina survivors. A total score of 30 or above on the PCL-C is required to meet criteria for PTSD. A total of 32.1% of respondents (141 individuals) scored 30 or above- criteria for vicarious traumatization. Respondents were evaluated for current compassion fatigue symptoms using the Compassion Fatigue. A score of 36-40 indicates high risk for compassion fatigue and a score of 41 and above indicates an extremely high risk for compassion fatigue. When the participants were evaluated based on their symptoms 5 years after Hurricane Katrina, 5.1% scored 36 or above, indicating high or extremely high risk for compassion fatigue.
The strategies examined were traditional clinical psychotherapy (individual, group, couples or family) and non-clinical self-care (prayer, meditation, exercise, yoga, engaging in pleasurable activities). The relationship between these types of mental health care and CFS scores were examined, and the results indicated that participation in traditional mental health counseling is associated with lower CFS scores, which indicate a lower risk for compassion fatigue, and participation in non-clinical self-care is also associated with lower CFS scores, which indicates a lower risk for compassion fatigue; however, participation in traditional mental health counseling is more strongly associated with lower CFS scores than non-clinical self-care.
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Patti, Chris J. "Compassionate Storytelling with Holocaust Survivors| Cultivating Dialogue at the End of an Era." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3587827.
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We live in a frantic, fractured, ever-quickening, and violent world that is at the end of the era in which we will be able to talk with survivors of the Shoah. To date, there have been approximately 100,000 recorded interviews of Holocaust survivors. The vast majority of these interviews—such as the 52,000 done for Steven Spielberg's and USC Shoah Foundation Archive—have used traditional, single-session, and "neutral" methods of oral history interviewing to "capture" and "preserve" the legalistic, historical "testimonies" of survivors. The present study responds to this situation and unique moment in time by slowing down, listening, speaking repeatedly and intimately, forming interpersonal relationships, and storytelling with three Holocaust survivors in the Tampa Bay area: Salomon Wainberg, Manuel Goldberg, and Sonia Wasserberger. I do this in order to see those I work with as experiential authorities able to help me address the classic and post-modern issues of human meaning, connection, and value in the post-Holocaust world. I first contextualize this work within extant and related research in the field of communication. Then I situate this project in the broader intersections of work on the history of the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors. This is followed by an outline of the particular collaborative oral history and ethnographic theories and methods that influence this work. These contexts lead to three chapters, the ethnographic stories of each survivor I have worked with for the past three years. Each story focuses on: a) the oral history and ethnographic significance of sharing particularities of each survivor's experience through our dialogues together; b) broader insights and explorations of the central themes (compassion, identification, and affinity) that emerged from our interviews and relationships. The final chapter concludes by reflecting on and synthesizing the values and limitations of this project. As a whole, this dissertation cultivates and exemplifies: a) a unique understanding of humane and humanistic approaches to ethnographic methods in the fields of communication and oral history; b) compassion, identification, and affinity as important lenses and motives to consider in research with individuals (in particular individual survivors of mass atrocities); c) the historical value and need to continue developing diverse approaches to scholarship that centralize personal stories, dialogue, peace, wisdom, and work that represents marginalized experiences and experiences of marginalization in a violent, oppressive world. This dissertation is offered as a token of remembrance of the Holocaust and to those who shared their stories with me.
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Sadeghi-Tari, Daniel. "Socio-Affective Moral Enhancement : A Cognitive Neuroscientific Perspective." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17473.
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Taylor, Pamela. "Relations between the Self and Others: Recalled Childhood Invalidation, Self-Compassion, and Interpersonal Relationships." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3964.
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Self-compassion refers to one’s kind, mindful, and self-referential response to the perception of one’s painful experiences and has been linked to a number of positive aspects of psychological well-being (Neff, 2003a, 2003b). Despite this, thus far, there has been very little research examining how this concept relates to various aspects of social relationships. The current study investigates whether levels of reported self-compassion are related to rejection sensitivity and excessive reassurance seeking from others. Furthermore, aspects of recalled parenting are examined to determine whether those who recalled their parents as unsupportive of their negative displays of emotion also demonstrated low self-compassion, a relationship proposed to be mediated by perceived mattering and experiential avoidance. Questionnaires measuring these constructs were administered online to 241 undergraduate students. Parental validation of negative displays of emotion was found to lead to increased self-compassion, a relationship which was mediated by experiential avoidance and perceived mattering. Parental invalidation was not related to self-compassion. In turn, increased mattering and self-compassion led to lower rejection sensitivity, whereas increased experiential avoidances led to excessive reassurance seeking. Further research in this area is needed in order to experimentally assess the cause and effect relationships between parenting, self-compassion, rejection sensitivity, and reassurance seeking.Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Master’s Scholarship
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Bouberlová, Sabina. "Psychologické aspekty soucitu." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-393569.
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The goal of this work is to introduce the phenomenon of compassion from the aspect of psychology. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis presents efforts made up to now to define compassion from a psychological point of view. The theoretical part of this work deals with the description of compassion in terms of evolutionary, social psychology and neuroscience. Based on the theoretical assumption that the relationship of a person towards himself or herself and towards other people is interconnected, this work also focuses on a description of a psychological construct of self-compassion. The empirical part of the diploma thesis is devoted to the translation of a new self-evaluation questionnaire called the Multidimensional Compassion Scale from USA, and the verification of the psychometric characteristics of the questionnaire and its convergent and discriminant validity. For the sake of questionnaire verification, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) was used, as well as the Interpersonal reactivity Index (IRI), a dimension called Compassionate reaction to one's own experiences from the Self-compassion Scale (SCS-26-CZ) questionnaire, and a dimension called Nonjudging intrapsychic experiences from the Five Aspects of Mindfulness Questionnaire (DPAV). Items of low difficulty were found within...
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Caiado, Brigida do Vale. "Feeling (un)safe with self and others: Early memories of warmth and safeness, external shame, self-criticism, fears of compassion and social anxiety." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/84263.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia apresentada à Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da EducaçãoEmbora diversos estudos tenham abordado o impacto negativo de experiências de abuso, vergonha externa e auto-criticismo na ansiedade social (AS), poucos abordaram o impacto de experiências de falta de calor/segurança e dos medos da compaixão na AS, não existindo nenhum que aborde todas estas variáveis em conjunto, particularmente diferenciando o papel deste tipo de experiências com pais e com pares. Deste modo, o presente estudo pretendeu avaliar o impacto diferencial das memórias precoces de calor e segurança (MPCS) com pais e com pares na explicação da AS, explorando o papel mediador da vergonha externa, autocritica e medos da compaixão nesta relação. O estudo transversal dispôs de duas amostras comunitárias: estudantes universitários (N = 762; Midade = 20.46; DP = 3.723) e não-estudantes (N = 180; Midade = 37.84; DP = 10.76). A não invariância do modelo hipotetizado para estudantes e não-estudantes, conduziu à realização de duas path analysis para testar o modelo em cada uma das amostras. Em ambas as amostras, vergonha externa, autocriticismo e medo de receber compaixão dos outros, mediaram totalmente a relação entre MPCS (pais e pares) e AS, com este medo a mediar parcialmente a relação da vergonha externa e autocriticismo com a AS. A relação entre a vergonha externa e AS foi também mediada pelo autocriticismo. Nos não-estudantes acrescentou-se o papel mediador do medo da auto-compaixão, demonstrando que o efeito dos medos da compaixão na AS variou consoante a amostra. O papel das MPCS dos pares, comparativamente ao dos pais, revelou um maior impacto na AS. O seu efeito nas outras variáveis em estudo também variou consoante a amostra. Em termos clínicos, estes resultados salientam a importância de trabalhar não só a auto-compaixão, mas também os medos da compaixão na AS, especialmente o medo de receber compaixão dos outros. Outros resultados são discutidos, assim como as implicações clínicas e contributos do presente estudo.
Although several studies have addressed the negative impact of early experiences of abuse, external shame and self-criticism on social anxiety (SA), few studies have addressed the impact of early experiences of lack of warmth/safeness and fears of compassion on SA, and none addressed all of these variables together, particularly differentiating the role of these experiences with parents and peers. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the differential impact of early memories of warmth and safeness (EMWS) with parents and with peers in SA, exploring the mediating role of external shame, self-criticism and fears of compassion in this relationship. The cross-sectional study included two community samples: university students (N= 762; Mage = 20.46; DP = 3.72) and nonstudents (N = 180; Mage = 37.84; DP = 10.76). The non-invariance of the hypothesized model for students and non-students was revealed and two path analysis were performed to test the model in each sample. In both samples, external shame, self-criticism and fear of receiving compassion from others, fully mediated the relationship between EMWS (with parents and peers) and SA, with this fear of compassion partially mediating the relationship of external shame and self-criticism with SA. The relation between external shame and SA was also mediated by self-criticism. In non-students the mediating role of the fear of self-compassion was added, demonstrating that the effect of fear of compassion on SA varied according to the sample. The impact of EMWS with peers, compared to parents, showed a greater impact on SA. Its effect on the other variables also varied according to the sample. Clinical implications highlight the importance of targeting not only self-compassion, but also fears of compassion, specially fear of receiving compassion from others. Other results are discussed, as well as other clinical implications and contributions of the present study.
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Ramalho, Tânia Sofia Mendes. "How compassionate abilities influence the experience of loneliness and quality of life of people with and without physical chronic disease?" Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/94552.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Psicologia apresentada à Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da EducaçãoObjetivo: O presente estudo examina as diferenças das competências compassivas, da solidão e da qualidade de vida, entre os indivíduos com e sem um diagnóstico de doença física crónica. Foi testado um modelo integrativo com o objetivo de examinar se a solidão medeia o impacto da autocompaixão e da abertura para receber compaixão dos outros na qualidade de vida física, psicológica e social.Design: Para este estudo transversal, foram recrutados indivíduos com (n = 278) e sem (n = 455) doença física crónica de modo a responder a um protocolo online de autorresposta.Medidas principais: Escalas dos Atributos e Ações Compassivas (CEAS), Escala da Solidão UCLA (UCLA Loneliness Scale) e Instrumento para a avaliação da Qualidade de Vida da Organização Mundial de Saúde (WHOQOL-BREF).Resultados: Indivíduos com doença física crónica reportaram menores competências compassivas e qualidade de vida, e maior solidão, quando comparados com os participantes sem diagnóstico. Para ambos, as competências compassivas estavam negativamente associadas à solidão, e positivamente associadas à qualidade de vida. Os resultados da Path analysis indicam que as competências compassivas têm um efeito direto na solidão, o que explica a qualidade de vida percebida dos indivíduos. Conclusão: Os resultados destacam o papel crucial da capacidade de dar compaixão a si mesmo e recebê-la por parte dos outros, na solidão e na qualidade de vida, tanto nos indivíduos com, como nos sem doença física crónica. Estes resultados aparentam ter implicações importantes para a investigação e para a prática clínica.
Objective: The current study examined the differences between compassionate abilities, loneliness, and quality of life (QoL), in individuals with and without a diagnosis of a physical chronic disease. An integrative model to examine whether loneliness mediated the impact of self-compassion and openness to receive compassion from others in physical, psychological, and social quality of life was tested.Design: In this cross-sectional study, individuals with (n = 278) and without (n = 455) a physical chronic disease were recruited through an online self-report questionnaire.Main Outcome measures: Compassionate Attributes and Engagement Scales, UCLA Loneliness Scale, and World Health Organization quality of life - BREF.Results: Individuals with a physical chronic disease reported lower compassionate abilities and quality of life, and higher loneliness, when compared with participants without a diagnosis. For both groups, compassionate abilities were negatively linked to loneliness, and positively linked to quality of life. Path analysis results indicated that compassionate abilities have a direct effect on loneliness, which explains individuals’ perceived quality of life. Conclusion: The present study highlights the crucial role of the ability to give ourselves and to receive compassion from others in loneliness and individuals’ quality of life, both in individuals with and without a physical chronic disease. These findings seem to have important research and clinical implications.
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Schultz, Clea. "Reading affect in post-apartheid literature: Compassion and other difficult feelings in Ivan Vladislavić." Thesis, 2014.
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I aim to explore compassion and affect in South African literature because there is a
remarkable dearth of criticism on both compassion and affect in this field. I hope this
thesis will be a small remedying contribution. As I wish to explore material conceptions
of compassion and affect, this study will also engage in commentary on everyday South
African society as reflected by the “web cracked mirror” (Titlestad and Gaylard, 7) held
up to it: its literature. My case study is Ivan Vladislavić because he is a writer intricately
engaged with everyday South African society, particularly the material realities and lived
experiences of the people living within it. He never uses the word “compassion” in his
texts, excepting in the mouth of Merle in The Restless Supermarket. (192) Nevertheless,
the way in which he chooses and portrays his subject matter is infused with compassion,
albeit in his aloof style. I have come to this conclusion through close reading of three of
his texts – The Restless Supermarket, The Exploded View and Portrait with Keys – and
intend to make close reading a large part of this thesis. I must also state this thesis will
be my own personal enquiry and research, not an empirical project. The nature of affect
is such that a study of affect must always be deeply subjective and, in fact, affected.
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TSENG, YU-FANG, and 曾于芳(釋天映). "The research of compassion and Facilitation Wisdom―Comparison of Avatamsaka Sutra to Other Works by Pre-Qin Philosophers." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b394mp.
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碩士玄奘大學
宗教與文化學系碩士班
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"Avatamsaka Sutra" has a verse saying: "All Buddha Dharmas rely on kindness and compassion. Kindness and compassion again rely on expedient means." In Mahayana Buddhism, compassion and wisdom are the highest goals for Bodhisattva. The compassion in "Avatamsaka Sutra" is mainly about the Paramita of Making Offerings, and redemption of all sentient beings, so that all sentient beings can get the Buddha fruit. When Bodhisattva faces different sentient beings, the teaching and propaganda methods can also vary. This is the manifestation of facilitation wisdom. The purpose is to let all sentient beings know the methods and sequence that should be practiced on the way to self-realization and enlightenment. The core idea of "Analects of Confucius" is benevolence（kind-heartedness）. The "Analects of Confucius" believe that "benevolence" is fundamentally about being filial to parents and loving to brothers. The highest goal of Confucianism is to fill the world with "benevolence." The facilitation wisdom specified in "Yanzi's Spring and Autumn Annals" is mainly used in exhortations, and they can include backhanded compliments, scolding the locust while pointing at the mulberry, telling white lies and speaking words for confidence-building. These facilitation wisdom are meant to make the other party come to realize the truth, correct bad behaviors and change for the good. The ideas of universal love in Mozi are also related to compassion and facilitation wisdom. The importance of this study is to compare the compassion in Avatamsaka Sutra with benevolence（kind-heartedness） in Analects of Confucius, explore the universal love in Mozi, and disntinguish between the facilitation wisdom in Avatamsaka Sutra, Yanzi's Spring and Autumn Annals and Mozi. Research results and relevant contributions: The author finds that the compassion in "Avatamsaka Sutra" can contain the benevolence（kind-heartedness） in "Analects of Confucius" and the universal love in "Mozi.” The facilitation wisdom in "Avatamsaka Sutra" can contain the facilitation wisdom in Yanzi's Spring and Autumn Annals.