The Importance of Self-Compassion in Terms of Self Psychology

Autor: Ming-Yu Claudia Wong
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Psychiatry International, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 120-126 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2673-5318
DOI: 10.3390/psychiatryint2020009
Popis: Self-compassion has fostered a new way to build connectedness with oneself and affirmed the importance of offering compassion to oneself. However, there have been numerous arguments about the similarity with other self-related concepts, yet they have neglected its importance in self-psychology. For instance, self-compassion could be seen as an important element in Kohut’s concept of self in illustrating the self-object and self-experience theory, thus leading to a healthy self. Additionally, the self-schemas (self-esteem and self-efficacy) have been sufficiently shown to be associating with and predicting positive psychological outcomes and have further demonstrated the positive relations with self-compassion. Self-compassion thus demonstrated that similar features have been shared among the self-schemas. Moreover, with the claim that self-compassion was more precise than self-esteem, self-compassion should be emphasized by self-psychology then to develop a new era of “true self-esteem”.
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