Attributional styles and life events in the classroom: Vulnerability and invulnerability to depressive mood reactions.

Metalsky, Gerald I.; Abramson, Lyn Y.; Seligman, Martin E. P.; Semmel, Amy; Peterson, Christopher

doi:10.1037//0022-3514.43.3.612

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“…Life stress is one of the most studied components of theories of depressive symptoms and NSSI. For example, both the diathesis-stress model 8 and evolutionary theories 9 of depression imply that life stress plays a prominent role in the development of depressive symptoms. According to several theoretical conceptualizations of NSSI, stressful life events may function as proximal predictors of this behavior.…”

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The Effects of Self-Criticism and Self-Compassion on Adolescents’ Depressive Symptoms and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

Gao¹,

Liu²,

Liu³

et al. 2023

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Purpose Symptoms of depression increase during adolescence as do nonsuicidal self-injurious behaviors (NSSI). The present study aimed to investigate how self-criticism interacted with the effects of stressful life events on depressive symptoms and NSSI and whether self-compassion would buffer these negative effects. Methods A total of 908 Chinese adolescents ( M age = 13.46, SD = 0.57) completed a cross-sectional survey. The main and interacted effects of stressful life events, self-criticism, self-compassion on depressive symptoms and NSSI were examined respectively. Results The results showed that self-criticism significantly moderated the relationships between stressful events and depression and NSSI. Self-compassion could buffer the negative impacts of stressful events and self-criticism on NSSI but not on depression. High self-compassion significantly reduced the magnitude of the association between stressful life events and NSSI in adolescents with low self-criticism but not in those with high self-criticism. Conclusion Self-criticism exacerbated the negative impacts of stressful life events on both depressive symptoms and NSSI, but self-compassion only buffered the impact of stressful life events on NSSI. Interventions designed to reduce NSSI risk of Chinese adolescents may benefit from training them to improve self-compassion abilities and to be less self-critical.

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