标题：Well-being is linked to self-passion

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Self-passion may defend against symptoms of depression according to researchers who surveyed a sample of German adults.

Lead study author Annett K?rner and a team of researchers were interested in expanding upon previous research, examining a representative sample of adults living in Germany. The study, “The Role of Self-Compassion in Buffering Symptoms of Depression in the General Population,” was published in the October issue of PLOS on_E.

A total of 2,404 participants, who ranged in age from 18 to 91, took part in the study. Three sub-groups were assessed in the study: those with no depressive symptoms, those with probable major depressive disorder, and those with other depressive syndromes. The Patient Health Questionnaire (PDQ-9) was used to measure symptoms of depression, while the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) was used to assess self-passion. The SCS is prised of three positive subscales (self-kindness, mon humanity, mindfulness) indicating positive self-passion, and three negative subscales (self-judgment, isolation, over-identification), indicating a lack of self-passion. Additionally, a self-passion posite score prised of the three positives subscales, and a self-coldness posite score prised of the three negative subscales, were calculated.

Findings from this study indicated a significant difference between subgroups of non-depressed participants and those participants with a likely depressive disorder. As depressive symptoms increased based on sub-group, the lack of self-passion or self-coldness, also increased. While the self-passion posite score demonstrated a weaker ability to differentiate between those participants with more or less depressive symptoms, self-kindness and mindfulness differentiated between those participants without depressive symptoms and those with likely major depressive disorder.

Which ponents of self-passion best predicted depressive symptoms? Isolation accounted for the most variance in depression scores, while self-judgment and over-identification contributed minimally; findings related to isolation are supported in the literature as being a risk factor for depression.

Overall, the study authors concluded that “our core finding that self-passion has the potential to buffer the relationship between self-coldness and depression provides an argument for future research into beneficial effects of self-passion for psychological well-being in the general population.”