The Unconditional Self-Kindness Scale: Assessing the Ability to Respond with Kindness to Threats to the Self
| Autor: | Kelly Erickson, Anne Guzman, Bruce W. Smith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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050103 clinical psychology
Health (social science) Social Psychology Kindness Self media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Protective factor 050109 social psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Context (language use) Mental health Social support Scale (social sciences) Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychological resilience Psychology Social psychology Applied Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Mindfulness. 9:1713-1722 |
| ISSN: | 1868-8535 1868-8527 |
| Popis: | Despite psychology’s awareness of the benefit of viewing oneself positively, there is a dearth of scales on self-kindness, with one notable example in a subscale of self-compassion. The purpose of this study was to develop and test a unique measure of self-kindness. The measure is called the Unconditional Self-Kindness (USK) scale because it assesses self-kindness in the context of common and potential harmful threats to the self. These threats include (1) being criticized and rejected by another person, (2) failing or making a mistake, and (3) becoming aware of personal flaws and imperfection. A total of 1452 undergraduate participants filled out the USK scale and a range of mental health, risk, and protective factors. The results showed that the USK scale was internally consistent, loaded on a single latent variable, demonstrated test-retest reliability, and was related in the expected directions to the mental health, psychological well-being, and variety of risk and protective factor measures. In addition, the USK scale still predicted several mental health predictors when controlling for protective factors including grit, hope, resilience, self-esteem, and social support. Finally, mean USK scores were significantly higher in men than women and in Native American participants than all other ethnicities and significantly lower in non-Hispanic White participants than all other ethnicities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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