Introduction: Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is designed to help patients identify and process their emotions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of emotion-focused therapy on improving depression and self-compassion in women with breast cancer. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design with a control group and a 3-month follow-up. The sample con...

  Introduction: Self-compassion among nurses leads to spiritual care of the patients, which is an effective psychological component in the spiritual and emotional intelligence of nurses. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence with self-compassion of nursing students in Islamic Azad University, Babol Medical Science...

Background & aim: Treatment adherence is one of the main factors in achieving maximum clinical efficacy. It seems that self-compassion and coping strategies of patients, can be effective on improving treatment adherence. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of coping strategies in the relationship between self-compassion with treatment adherence in cardiovascular patients...

This study aims to investigate the mediating role of self-compassion and mindfulness in the relationship between perceived stress and psychological and physical health. This paper is applied in terms of purpose and is correlational in terms of method. Two hundred forty-nine senior undergraduate students were selected via convenience sampling and filled in The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS, Cohen ...

Introduction: Cancer disease can cause body shame in patients by causing physical changes, which needs to be researched. Therefore, the present study was done aimed to investigate the structural relationship model of mindfulness and self-compassion with body shame through body appreciation in cancer patients. Methods: The research method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical popul...

Abstract The present study investigated the effect of inducing self-compassion and self-esteem on regulating shame and guilt by the experimental method. Eighty students of University of Tehran (26 males, 54 females) completed the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), and the Shame-Proneness and Guilt-Proneness subscales of Test of Self-Conscious Affect (TOSCA). ...