آموزش خود دلسوزی آلفا-آمیلاز، ضربان قلب و واکنش ذهنی به تهدید ارزیابی اجتماعی در زنان را تعدیل می کند

Summary A growing body of research has revealed that social evaluative stressors trigger biological and psychological responses that in chronic forms have been linked to aging and disease. Recent research suggests that self-compassion may protect the self from typical defensive responses to evaluation. We investigated whether brief training in self-compassion moderated biopsychological responses to the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) in women. Compared to attention (placebo) and no-training control conditions, brief self-compassion training diminished sympathetic (salivary alpha-amylase), cardiac parasympathetic, and subjective anxiety responses, though not HPA-axis (salivary cortisol) responses to the TSST. Self-compassion training also led to greater self-compassion under threat relative to the control groups. In that social stress pervades modern life, self-compassion represents a promising approach to diminishing its potentially negative psychological and biological effects.

4. Conclusions This experiment represents the first to show that self-compassion training can diminish psychobiological responses to social evaluative threat, relative to rigorous control conditions, and offers a fresh perspective on social self-preservation. The findings are noteworthy given the intensity of the TSST stressor relative to the brevity of the self-compassion training (45 min over 5 days). In that social stress is a ubiquitous feature of modern life, our findings suggest that self-compassion is a promising approach to diminishing its potentially negative psychological and biological effects.