@article{ref1,
title="Self-compassion and social anxiety disorder",
journal="Anxiety, stress, and coping",
year="2012",
author="Werner, Kelly H. and Jazaieri, Hooria and Goldin, Philippe R. and Ziv, Michal and Heimberg, Richard G. and Gross, James J.",
volume="25",
number="5",
pages="543-558",
abstract="Abstract Self-compassion refers to having an accepting and caring orientation towards oneself. Although self-compassion has been studied primarily in healthy populations, one particularly compelling clinical context in which to examine self-compassion is social anxiety disorder (SAD). SAD is characterized by high levels of negative self-criticism as well as an abiding concern about others' evaluation of one's performance. In the present study, we tested the hypotheses that: (1) people with SAD would demonstrate less self-compassion than healthy controls (HCs), (2) self-compassion would relate to severity of social anxiety and fear of evaluation among people with SAD, and (3) age would be negatively correlated with self-compassion for people with SAD, but not for HC. As expected, people with SAD reported less self-compassion than HCs on the Self-Compassion Scale and its subscales. Within the SAD group, lesser self-compassion was not generally associated with severity of social anxiety, but it was associated with greater fear of both negative and positive evaluation. Age was negatively correlated with self-compassion for people with SAD, whereas age was positively correlated with self-compassion for HC. These findings suggest that self-compassion may be a particularly important target for assessment and treatment in persons with SAD.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1061-5806",
doi="10.1080/10615806.2011.608842",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2011.608842"
}