Response to a mindful self-compassion intervention in teens: A within-person association of mindfulness, self-compassion, and emotional well-being outcomes

Abstract As adolescence can be a stressful developmental stage, the purpose of this study was to determine if a novel mindful self-compassion program would decrease stress, depressive symptoms, and anxiety and increase resilience, gratitude, and curiosity/exploration (positive risk-taking), and to a...

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Published inJournal of adolescence (London, England.) Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 108 - 118
Main Authors Bluth, Karen, PhD, Eisenlohr-Moul, Tory A., PhD
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2017
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects
Adolescent
Adolescent Development
Adolescents
Anxiety - psychology
Behavior modification
Child
Cohort Studies
Curiosity
Depression - psychology
Emotional well-being
Empathy
Female
Humans
Intervention
Male
Mental depression
Mental health
Mindfulness
Mindfulness - methods
Pediatrics
Resilience
Self compassion
Stress
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Symptoms
Teenagers
Well being
Intervention
Self-compassion
Mindfulness
Adolescents
Emotional well-being
Stress
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Summary:Abstract As adolescence can be a stressful developmental stage, the purpose of this study was to determine if a novel mindful self-compassion program would decrease stress, depressive symptoms, and anxiety and increase resilience, gratitude, and curiosity/exploration (positive risk-taking), and to ascertain if mindfulness and self-compassion co-varied with these outcomes over time. Forty-seven adolescents in the southeast U.S. enrolled in an 8-week mindful self-compassion course in five cohorts. Measures were assessed at pre-intervention, post-intervention, and 6-week follow-up. Multilevel growth analyses revealed main effects of time on perceived stress, resilience, curiosity/exploration and gratitude. Additionally, both mindfulness and self-compassion co-varied with perceived stress and depressive symptoms; mindfulness also co-varied with anxiety and self-compassion co-varied with resilience and curiosity/exploration. Implications of these findings are that this program has potential in decreasing stress and increasing resilience and positive risk-taking. Future studies with a control group need to be conducted to confirm these findings.
Bibliography:Karen Bluth, an author of this manuscript, is a co‐developer of
Making Friends with Yourself: A Mindful Self‐Compassion Program for Teens
and shares ownership of the copyright of this curriculum.
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ISSN:0140-1971
1095-9254
DOI:10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.04.001