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Compassion Protects Mental Health and Social Safeness During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across 21 Countries.
Article in Mindfulness, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05308537 (The Effectiveness of the Mindful Compassion Care Program), which is not on this map. Cited by 39 papers.
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The Effectiveness of the Mindful Compassion Care Program (MCCP) in Reducing Burnout and Psychological Distress Amongst Frontline Hospital Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Randomized Controlled Trial
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Validity of the Chinese Mandarin version of the compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others for nursing students.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Disconnecting from Difficult Emotions in Times of Crisis: The Role of Self-Compassion and Experiential Avoidance in the Link Between Perceived COVID-19 Threat and Adjustment Disorder Severity.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The development of the Polish version of the Compassionate Engagement and Action Scales.PloS one · 2025Article
- Development of a multicomponent survey of experiences of tragedy-based and fear-based trauma in COVID-19 healthcare professionals.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The effect of psychological richness on the meaning in life of college students: the chain mediating effect of sense of coherence and self-compassion.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Factors affecting the adoption of metaverse in healthcare: The moderating role of digital division, and meta-culture.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Compassionate care during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- The role of mindfulness and compassion in early adults' subsequent mental health, coping and compliance with health guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective longitudinal study.Social and personality psychology compass · 2023Article
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- Compassion apps for better mental health: qualitative review.BJPsych open · 2023Article
- Resilience, Coping, and the Covid-19 Pandemic Across the Globe - an Update: What Have we Learned?Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2023Review
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44 authors at 20 institutions in 17 countries.
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Abstract
Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic is having an unprecedented detrimental impact on mental health in people around the world. It is important therefore to explore factors that may buffer or accentuate the risk of mental health problems in this context. Given that compassion has numerous benefits for mental health, emotion regulation, and social relationships, this study examines the buffering effects of different flows of compassion (for self, for others, from others) against the impact of perceived threat of COVID-19 on depression, anxiety, and stress, and social safeness. Methods: The study was conducted in a sample of 4057 adult participants from the general community population, collected across 21 countries from Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, Asia, and Oceania. Participants completed self-report measures of perceived threat of COVID-19, compassion (for self, for others, from others), depression, anxiety, stress, and social safeness. Results: Perceived threat of COVID-19 was associated with higher scores in depression, anxiety, and stress, and lower scores in social safeness. Self-compassion and compassion from others were associated with lower psychological distress and higher social safeness. Compassion for others was associated with lower depressive symptoms. Self-compassion moderated the relationship between perceived threat of COVID-19 on depression, anxiety, and stress, whereas compassion from others moderated the effects of fears of contracting COVID-19 on social safeness. These effects were consistent across all countries. Conclusions: Our findings highlight the universal protective role of compassion, in particular self-compassion and compassion from others, in promoting resilience by buffering against the harmful effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and social safeness. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12671-021-01822-2.
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