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Mediation of Self-Compassion on Pathways from Stress and Anxiety to Depression among Portuguese Higher Education Students
| dc.contributor.author | Serrão, Carla | |
| dc.contributor.author | Valquaresma, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rodrigues, Ana Rita | |
| dc.contributor.author | Duarte, Ivone | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-11T13:26:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-11T13:26:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-09-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Higher education is a context that requires students to develop academic, social and institutional tasks. As a result of this complex and multidimensional process, students tend to experience greater stress, anxiety and depression, making it crucial for students to mobilize a set of essential personal, social and instrumental resources, for a more positive adaptation to the academic context. Self-compassion is an adaptative emotion-regulation strategy and may help students to better adjust to academic issues. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of self-compassion as a mediator in the relationship between anxiety and depression, as well as stress and depression. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using an online questionnaire distributed through social media. Stress and anxiety were found to be positively related to depression scores and negatively related to self-compassion. A bootstrapped mediation model confirmed the existence of a significant positive partial mediation effect exerted by self-compassion on the relationship between stress and depression (b = 0.12, 95% CI [0.05, 0.18]). The analysis also showed a significant positive partial mediation effect exerted by self-compassion in the relationship between anxiety and depression (b = 0.13, 95% CI [0.08, 0.18]). Conclusions: Self-compassion might partially mediate the relationship between stress and depression and between anxiety and depression. Findings underscore self-compassion as a potentially protective factor against negative psychological symptoms. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11182494 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/23498 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.relation | his work is funded by National Funds through the FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the scope of the project UIDP/05198/2020 (Centre for Research and Innovation in Education, inED) | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Depression | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Self-compassion | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Stress | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Higher education | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Mediation of Self-Compassion on Pathways from Stress and Anxiety to Depression among Portuguese Higher Education Students | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
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| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Suiça | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Healthcare | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Serrão | |
| person.familyName | Valquaresma | |
| person.familyName | Rodrigues | |
| person.givenName | Carla | |
| person.givenName | Andreia | |
| person.givenName | Ana Rita | |
| person.identifier | 1132633 | |
| person.identifier | https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=pt-PT&authuser=1&user=rG5u8LsAAAAJ | |
| person.identifier | 1981987 | |
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| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-6001-1164 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-5803-9413 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-7808-3358 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 16646995600 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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