Effects of Self-Compassion and Its Relationship with Depression

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25870688
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical psychology; Applied health science
• Research Institution: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (2014); Reitaku University (2013)
• Principal Investigator: YAMAGUCHI AYANO 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, 研究助手 (40592548)
• Research Collaborator: KIM Min-Sun ハワイ大学, コミュニコロジー学部, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 健康心理学 / ポジティブ心理学 / 健康 / 生きがい / 健康行動 / 健康（ヘルス）コミュニケーション / 自殺傾向 / うつ傾向

Outline of Final Research Achievements

For the first research, the results indicated that interdependence in all cultures was associated with socially oriented subjective well-being. In the United States, it was also correlated with social goal pursuit. However, independence in the United States correlated with individual-oriented subjective well-being, while in Hawaii, it also correlated with hedonic goal pursuit. For the second research, in the U.S., independent (vs. interdependent) self-construal had stronger impact on both types of self-criticism, while in Japan, interdependent (vs. independent) self-construal had stronger impact on both types of self-criticism, indicating that culturally dominant self-construal has a larger influence on self-criticism. In both cultures, internal (vs. comparative) self-criticism has a less negative impact on self-compassion.

Free Research Field

健康心理学、ポジティブ心理学、社会学、コミュニケーション、ヘルスサイエンス