Self-Compassion Interventions and Psychosocial Outcomes: a Meta-Analysis of RCTs
This is the meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of self-compassion interventions, and it matters because most of the self-compassion literature is correlational. Correlations between questionnaires tell you that people who report treating themselves kindly also report feeling better, which is compatible with the kindness helping, with feeling better making kindness easier, or with both reflecting something else. Trials, in which people are randomly assigned to receive training or not, are the only design that separates those. Pooling them gives the field its best estimate of what the interventions actually produce across psychosocial outcomes. This vault cites it whenever a claim about self-compassion needs to rest on more than a correlation, and anything specific taken from it should be traced to the paper. Written without an abstract, from the title and from the neighbouring work cited here.
This is the meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of self-compassion interventions, and it matters because most of the self-compassion literature is correlational. Correlations between questionnaires tell you that people who report treating themselves kindly also report feeling better, which is compatible with the kindness helping, with feeling better making kindness easier, or with both reflecting something else. Trials, in which people are randomly assigned to receive training or not, are the only design that separates those. Pooling them gives the field its best estimate of what the interventions actually produce across psychosocial outcomes. This vault cites it whenever a claim about self-compassion needs to rest on more than a correlation, and anything specific taken from it should be traced to the paper. Written without an abstract, from the title and from the neighbouring work cited here.
Written from the the paper's title and the surrounding literature already cited here.
What our sources record
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10, 1455-1473. 27 randomised controlled trials. Hedges' g: self-compassion 0.75, stress 0.67, depression 0.66, mindfulness 0.62, anxiety 0.57, self-criticism 0.56, eating behaviour 1.76, rumination 1.37. The self-compassion outcome is measured with the disputed scale.
Where we use it
- Why You Are Kinder to Your Friends Than to Yourself, Why We Care
Reliability of this reference
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The source
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-019-01134-6
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-019-01134-6