background and purpose: regarding the role of body image and self-esteem in mental health in women, research examined the mediating role of self-esteem and body image in relation to the self-compassion and mental health in female students research method: the population is composed of girl students of payam noor of delfan city. for this purpose, 280 students were selected by random cluster samp...

aim and background: it appears that depressed people have low self-compassion and forgiveness due to having negative attitudes. in order to test this hypothesis, the current study investigated the role of self-compassion and forgiveness in the prediction of depression severity among university students. methods and materials: in a correlational study during 2010-11, 136 individuals were randoml...

PURPOSE The treatment a patient receives is greatly affected by what he or she chooses to disclose to a physician. This qualitative study investigated such factors as culture and background that contribute to Latina patients' nondisclosure of medical information. METHODS Participants were 28 Latina women living in Brooklyn. In-depth interviews in English or Spanish were conducted and document...

Meditation is becoming increasingly popular as a topic for scientific research and theories on meditation are becoming ever more specific. We distinguish between what is called focused Attention meditation, open Monitoring meditation, and loving kindness (or compassion) meditation. Research suggests that these meditations have differential, dissociable effects on a wide range of cognitive (cont...

OBJECTIVE To consider whether or not deinstitutionalization and the integration of community mental health care with primary health care services have reduced stigma toward mental illness in Jamaica. METHODS A qualitative study of 20 focus groups, with a total of 159 participants grouped by shared sociodemographic traits. Results were analyzed using ATLAS.ti software. RESULTS Participant na...

I n recent years, the healthcare industry has become more competitive and the availability of choices and limited resources necessitate the need to focus on customer service and patient satisfaction. Patients trust and recommend hospitals because of the nursing care they receive.1 Patient satisfaction is influenced by the relationship developed between the nurse and patient. The level of satisf...

the aim of this paper is to study the philosophical anthropology of mandaeans from their authentic sources. the method of the study has been documentary and analytical - deductive. sabean mandaeans is one of the earliest religions of such beliefs as monotheism, prophethood and resurrection. today, believers of this religion live quietly in southern iraq and khuzestan. the quran has mentioned sa...

OBJECTIVE The present study investigated the effectiveness of a newly developed 3-week self-compassion group intervention for enhancing resilience and well-being among female college students. METHOD Fifty-two students were randomly assigned to either an intervention designed to teach skills of self-compassion (n = 27) or an active control group intervention in which general time management s...

This brief commentary highlights the faulty reasoning underlying claims that selfcompassion should not be conceptualized or measured as a unitary construct because compassionate self-responding (CS) and uncompassionate (UCS) are differential predictors of psychological outcomes. The Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) is well-validated measure has been used in thousands studies on selfcompassion.Self-c...