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The roles of self-compassion and psychological flexibility in the psychological...

Research has suggested that the perception of life satisfaction and quality of life tends to decrease during adolescence, and points out that adolescent girls tend to report lower levels of psychological well-being when compared with adolescent boys. Furthermore, studies have highlighted the role of affiliation indicators in the psychological well-being of adolescent girls. However, the study of the mechanisms ...

The roles of self-compassion and psychological flexibility in the psychological...

Research has suggested that the perception of life satisfaction and quality of life tends to decrease during adolescence, and points out that adolescent girls tend to report lower levels of psychological well-being when compared with adolescent boys. Furthermore, studies have highlighted the role of affiliation indicators in the psychological well-being of adolescent girls. However, the study of the mechanisms ...

Feelings of shame and the psychological well-being of adolescents: Fears of rec...

Objectives: The current study aims to test the mediating role of fears of receiving compassion from others and of current feelings of social safeness and connectedness in the association between external shame and the psychological well-being of adolescents. We hypothesize that adolescents with higher levels of external shame may have lower psychological well-being indicators due to increased fear of receiving ...

Kindness toward One’s Self and Body: Exploring Mediational Pathways between Ear...

Recent literature has emphasized the role played by early emotional experiences on body image and eating-related psychopathology. Nevertheless, the mechanisms underlying the link between positive rearing experiences and eating psychopathology remain scarcely explored. Thus, this study aimed to explore a model in which it was hypothesized that early emotional experiences, characterized by warmth, safeness, and s...

Does committed action act as a buffer against the impact of shame on depression?

Shame and depression: The roles of self-reassurance and social safeness

Cognitive fusion: Maladaptive emotion regulation endangering body image appreci...

Body appreciation: A buffer against the impact of shame on depression.

Shame is defined as a painful affect, associated with the perception that one's personal characteristics and/or behaviours are seen by others as unattractive. Since it signals the possibility of rejection, high levels of shame associate with high psychological suffering and several psychopathological conditions, namely depression. In contrast, body appreciation is considered a set of attitudes of acceptance and...

Early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology: The mediating...

Research on human development and functioning has highlighted the importance of earlyemotional and relational experiences. Particularly, an association between the absenceof early positive memories and the presence of disordered eating has been evidenced byrecent investigations. However, the study of the mechanisms underlying this associationremains unclear.Using a sample of 490 women, the hypothesis that early...

Emotion regulation and disordered eating: The distinct effects of body image-re...

Different emotion regulation processes may influence the impact of a negative perception of one’s own weight and body image on the engagement in disordered eating. In this regard, the present study aims to clarify the distinct effects of cognitive fusion and body appreciation in the relationship between body image discrepancy and disordered eating, while controlling the effect of BMI, in a sample of 369 women. ...