Self ‐compassion and emotional regulation as predictors of social anxiety

ConclusionsThe findings provide preliminary evidence that self ‐compassion can play an important role in alleviating social anxiety and that emotion regulation through ES and CR are important mechanisms of that influence.Practitioner points Adopting a more compassionate attitude towards the self can reduce the symptoms of social anxiety Emotional regulation through reducing emotional suppression may be a mechanism whereby higher levels of self ‐compassion reduce symptoms of social anxiety. Although higher levels of self‐compassion predict greater use of emotional regulation through cognitive appraisal, cognitive appraisal does not predict levels of symptoms of social anxiety The capacity to refrain from non‐compassionate self‐re sponding may reduce symptoms of social anxiety directly and indirectly through lower levels of emotional suppression and greater cognitive reappraisal (CR). However, compassionate self‐responding only influences symptoms of social anxiety through CR.
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Origial article Source Type: research