Self-compassion has received considerable attention for promoting well-being and reducing psychopathology, and preliminary findings generate the hypothesis that self-compassion influences mental health indirectly through adaptive emotion regulation strategies.The cross-sectional study investigates the links between self-compassion, emotion regulation (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression), and depression/anxiety symptoms in 420 charcotabs Slovak adolescents and young adults (Mage = 19.4, SD = 3.2).
We examined the direct and indirect effects of self-compassion on depression/anxiety symptoms through cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression as mediators.The bivariate correlation analysis confirmed that depression and anxiety were significantly negatively correlated with cognitive reappraisal and self-compassion.As predicted, depression and anxiety symptoms significantly and positively correlated with emotion suppression.Mediation analysis demonstrated an indirect effect of self-compassion on both depression and anxiety through a cognitive reappraisal.
However, when controlling for the effect of depression, the mediation effect of cognitive reappraisal gul rune d2 on the relationship between self-compassion and anxiety was eliminated.The study confirms that cognitive reappraisal affects the relationship between self-compassion and depression by regulating negative emotions.However, the protective role of self-compassion and cognitive reappraisal in reducing anxiety symptoms is questionable.