خلاصة:
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between adaptive and
maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies, self-compassion, and self-esteem; and
to determine whether self-compassion compared to self-esteem, was a better predictor of the
scores on the adaptive and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The statistical population included all students of
the University of Applied Science and Technology (unit 47 in Tehran), in the education year
2015-2016. A total of 146 students were selected using a convenient sampling method. After
explaining the purpose and procedure of the study to the participants and obtaining their verbal
consent, the following questionnaires were administered: The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale,
the Self-Compassion Scale, and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Pearson
correlation coefficient, two variable and multivariable regression analyses were used to analyze
the data. All analyses were performed using SPSS software version 17.
Results: The results indicated that both self-compassion and self-esteem were positively related
to adaptive and negatively related to maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies.
Regression analysis revealed that self-compassion was a better predictor of maladaptive
strategies, and self-esteem was a better predictor of adaptive strategies.
Conclusion: Self-compassion is a good indicator of mental health. In some aspects, selfcompassion
relative to self-esteem, is a better predictor of mental health. It also contains some
healthy aspects of self-esteem. Therefore, teaching self-compassion skills to therapists and
patients can be a useful technique to improve the mental health of the society.
ملخص الجهاز:
"Maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies include: self-blame (thoughts of blaming yourself for negative experiences); blaming-others (thoughts of put- ting the blame of the negative event on others); catastro- phizing (thoughts of focusing on the terror of the experi- ence or thinking that the negative event is the worst thing that could happen to you); rumination (constantly think- ing about the feelings and thoughts accompanied with the unpleasant event, without trying to modify the envi- ronment) (Garnefski, Teerds, Kraaij, Legerstee, & Van Den Kommer, 2004).
Two-variable and multivariable regression analyses with the Enter method were used to examine the relation- ship of self-esteem and self-compassion with adaptive and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies.
This finding is consistent with those of Paradise and Kernis (2002), Freire and Tavares (2011), Dogan, Totan, and Sapmaz (2013), Zare and Najafi (2007), Afshary, Babakhani, Ah- madi, Shamseddinilorry (2016), Forrester, Slater, Jomar, Mitzman & Taylor (2017), and Alavinezhad, Mousavia and Sohrabib (2014), regarding the significant associa- tion of self-esteem with self-regulation.
In support of this finding, it has been shown that those with higher self-compassion tend to have better psychological health, because in these people, the unavoidable pain and feeling of failure that everyone may experience is not continued due to a cruel self-blame, feeling of isolation, and excessive identifi- cation with thoughts and emotions (Neff & Pommier, 2013).
In summary, the study results indicate that both self- compassion and self-esteem have a positive relation- ship with cognitive emotion regulation strategies and a negative relationship with maladaptive strategies."