When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade: Self-Compassion Increases Adaptive Beliefs About Failure

Volunteers’ compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and post-traumatic growth during the SARS-CoV-2 lockdown in Spain: Self-compassion and self-determination as predictors

“…The precise mechanisms that explain the protective effects of self-compassion are unclear, but some potential candidates could contribute to improving it. Thus, emotional regulation and emotional awareness [ 62 , 63 ] or changing beliefs in failure [ 64 ] are thought to be helpful for this aim.…”

Dealing with the Ups and Downs of Life: Positive Dispositions in Coping with Negative and Positive Events and Their Relationships with Well-Being Indicators

“…From these results, we can draw three preliminary conclusions: first, self-compassion has a pervasive positive association with well-being, ranging from cognitive to more affective dimensions, characterized by both positive and negative valence. Such pervasiveness can be due to the fact that self-compassion acts on multiple channels: it involves self-kindness (Neff 2003) and positive responses toward the self in times of trouble (Miyagawa et al 2019), but also the belief that adverse conditions are shared with all humanity (Neff 2003), and it does not involve extreme self-reliance (Choo et al 2019). These processes reflect both a positive and accepting attitude toward the self, which may be positively related to life satisfaction and positive emotions, and the ability to see negative events in a larger perspective, which can help reduce negative feelings, and find meaning in such events and in life in general.…”

“…By definition, self-compassion stands as a useful tool when individuals have to cope with negative events involving self-preoccupation, such as failure, rejection, and embarrassment (Leary et al 2007;Neff 2003). Indeed, self-compassionate people accept responsibility for their role in unpleasant events without excessively ruminating on these events, thereby mitigating negative affect stemming from them (Leary et al 2007); in a self-compassionate stance, failures are seen as learning opportunities (Miyagawa et al 2019).…”

“…Self-compassion is composed of three aspects: self-kindness, which is the tendency to avoid harsh self-judgment and to rely on kindness in front of one's own failures; mindfulness, which is a balanced awareness of personal negative experiences, without over-identifying with them; and common humanity, which is the belief that one's own limits and negative feelings are shared with the entire humanity. Besides being related to well-being, self-compassion was shown to buffer against both negative events and negative self-feelings (Leary et al 2007), and it was positively associated with the belief that failures are learning opportunities and part of life (Miyagawa et al 2019).…”

Will Self-Compassion Relieve Distress?: A Correlational Study Among Indonesian Undergraduate Students

“…18 People with high self-compassion are more likely to have constructive changes in the face of various difficult life events, 19 report that their personal shortcomings can be changed, 20 experience a decline in maladaptive beliefs, hold and promote adaptive beliefs about failures by increasing the positive responses to the self and decreasing the negative responses to the self. 21 Later, self-compassion is positively associated with mastery goals and negatively associated with performance goals, which is mediated by the lesser fear of failure and greater perceived competence. 22 The present study aimed to examine the relation between self-compassion and distress among Indonesian undergraduate students in emerging adulthood.…”