Self-compassion moderates the influence of procrastination on postponing sporting activity

Rapoport, Olga; Bengel, Sandra; Möcklinghoff, Sarah; Neidhardt, Eva

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.111242

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“…With self-compassion, individuals are better able to show themselves kindness and understanding for their limitations and hardships, which may generate increased motivation to persist in valued behaviors even after initial setbacks [50,51]. Self-compassion has been linked to greater intrinsic motivation, resilience, and persistence [8,50,52]. Our findings add to this knowledge by raising the question of whether initial self-compassion is more important for engagement than over-time improvements; perhaps those who have the highest underlying self-compassion and the lowest levels of self-judgment engage most.…”

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Body Positivity and Self-Compassion on a Publicly Available Behavior Change Weight Management Program

McCallum

May

et al. 2021

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According to recent research, body positivity and self-compassion are key outcomes that are tied to better psychological and physical health. To date, it is unclear whether body positivity and self-compassion improve, stay constant, or deteriorate over the course of a weight management program, particularly one that addresses the psychological roots of behavior change. Additionally, beyond controlled settings, there are no studies on body positivity and self-compassion in individuals who choose to join a commercial weight management program. Therefore, this single-arm prospective study examined changes in body positivity and self-compassion from baseline to the 16 week milestone of Noom Weight, a commercial behavior change weight management program informed by acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). We also examined how baseline and over-time changes in body positivity and self-compassion predicted engagement in program-measured relevant behaviors (e.g., exercises logged). Participants were a random subset of individuals who had recently self-enrolled in the program (n = 133). Body positivity and self-compassion were measured via survey at baseline and end of the core program (16 weeks). Self-reported weight and program-recorded engagement were extracted from the program database. Compared to baseline, body appreciation, body image flexibility, self-compassion, and body-focused rumination significantly improved at 16 weeks (all ps < 0.007). Participants lost a statistically significant amount of weight (3.9 kg; t(128)) = 10.64, p < 0.001) by 16 weeks, which was 4.4% body weight. Greater engagement, especially messaging a coach, reading articles, and logging meals, was associated with improvements over time in body appreciation (r = 0.17, p = 0.04), body image flexibility (r = −0.23, p = 0.007), and the brooding component of rumination (r = −0.23, p = 0.007). Greater engagement was also associated with baseline total self-compassion (r = 0.19, p = 0.03) and self-judgment (r = 0.24, p = 0.006). The results suggest that individuals experience improvements in body positivity and self-compassion while learning about ACT, DBT, and CBT through curriculum and coaching in this setting. The results also have important clinical implications, such as the possibility that psychologically-oriented (i.e., ACT, DBT, and CBT-based) weight management could be important to improve body positivity or that baseline self-compassion could be used to target individuals at risk for lower engagement. Future work should investigate these possibilities as well as delineate the causal relationships between body positivity, self-compassion, engagement, and weight loss.

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Body Positivity and Self-Compassion on a Publicly Available Behavior Change Weight Management Program

McCallum

May

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“…Some studies have already shown this (negative) impact of procrastination on health-promoting behaviour, e.g. going to bed on time (Kroese et al, 2014(Kroese et al, , 2016Rapoport et al, 2023) or exercise regularly (Kelly & Walton 2021;Klingsieck & Weigelt, 2016;Rapoport et al, 2022). It has been shown that high procrastinators exercise less than they intended to, sleep less, do not keep to their scheduled bedtimes, and generally report more health problems.…”

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“…With self-compassion having a rather positive influence on healthy behaviour (Brion et al, 2014;Dunne et al, 2018;Sirois, 2020;Terry et al, 2013), and procrastination having a rather negative influence on healthy behaviour (Kroese et al, 2014(Kroese et al, , 2016Rapoport et al, 2022;Sirois et al, 2003), the exact impact of procrastination and self-compassion combined is not entirely clear. That is, the two factors could have an independent effect on health behaviour, or conversely, it could be that they have a joint effect on health behaviour.…”

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“…It is known that procrastination and self-compassion are negatively related (Sirois, 2014) and that they can influence certain parameters in different directions. For example, selfcompassion has a positive effect on sleep quality and sleep satisfaction, whereas bedtime procrastination has a negative effect on these parameters (Rapoport et al, 2023). It has also been shown that self-compassion has the ability to minimise the influence of procrastination on behaviour.…”

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“…However, if these high procrastinators show high values in self-compassion, the effect is cancelled out and they do as much sport as they have planned (comparable to the low sport procrastinators). Yet, these effects could only be demonstrated to a limited extent for other areas such as bedtime procrastination (Rapoport et al, 2023). The question arises in which way self-compassion and procrastination influence and possibly interact in one crucial health behaviour field, namely dental attendance.…”

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"Can I please postpone my dentist appointment?" - Exploring a new area of procrastination

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It is known that both procrastination and self-compassion are associated with health behaviours in the sense that the former reduces them and the latter increases them. It is also known that regular visits to the doctor and especially to the dentist are part of a healthy lifestyle. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of procrastination and self-compassion on dental attendance. For this purpose, a new questionnaire was designed and confirmed by means of an explorative factor analysis. The results show that procrastination has an influence on dental attendance, even when the influence of dental anxiety is excluded. No conclusion can be drawn about the influence of self-compassion on dental attendance.These results open up a new area in which procrastination plays an important role and which has been neglected until now. The study emphasises the importance of further research into procrastination behaviour in the health area, in order to be able to minimise it in the long term.

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Self-compassion moderates the influence of procrastination on postponing sporting activity

Cited by 7 publications

References 38 publications

Body Positivity and Self-Compassion on a Publicly Available Behavior Change Weight Management Program

Body Positivity and Self-Compassion on a Publicly Available Behavior Change Weight Management Program

"Can I please postpone my dentist appointment?" - Exploring a new area of procrastination

Procrastination in the Intention–Behaviour gap: Exercise procrastination and the moderating role of emotion

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