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Trial reportPsychoneuroendocrinology2014

Self-compassion training modulates alpha-amylase, heart rate variability, and subjective responses to social evaluative threat in women.

Joanna J Arch, Kirk Warren Brown, Derek J Dean, Lauren N Landy, Kimberley D Brown, Mark L Laudenslager

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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86citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
7.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

86 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 289 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Resilience Interventions Conducted in Western and Eastern Countries-A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  3. Psychological interventions to foster resilience in healthcare students.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joanna J ArchUniversity of Colorado Boulder, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 345 UCB Muenzinger, Boulder, CO 80309-0345, USA. Electronic address: Joanna.Arch@Colorado.edu.
Kirk Warren BrownVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 USA.
Derek J DeanUniversity of Colorado Boulder, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 345 UCB Muenzinger, Boulder, CO 80309-0345, USA.
Lauren N LandyUniversity of Colorado Boulder, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 345 UCB Muenzinger, Boulder, CO 80309-0345, USA.
Kimberley D BrownUniversity of Colorado Boulder, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 345 UCB Muenzinger, Boulder, CO 80309-0345, USA.
Mark L LaudenslagerDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Colordo Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045 USA.
University of Colorado Boulder · USUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · US

Funding

Psychoeducation for BMT caregivers: Biobehavioral markers and outcomeR01CA126971 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI LAUDENSLAGER, MARK L. · 2008 to 2012
$2.7M
NCI NIH HHS CA126971NCI NIH HHS R01 CA126971
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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MeditationAdolescentAnxietyAttentionEmpathyFemaleHeart RateHumansHypothalamo-Hypophyseal SystemPituitary-Adrenal SystemSalivaSalivary alpha-AmylasesStress, PsychologicalYoung AdultSalivary alpha-AmylasesAlpha-amylaseCortisolHeart rate variabilitySelf-compassionSocial threatStress

Identifiers

PMID24636501
PMCPMC3985278
OpenAlexW2116825219

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