Effect Of Self-Compassion On High School Girls With Fat Negative Physical Self Perception

Self-compassion refers to the ability of an individual to be open,understand and tolerate themselves in the face of pain,to perceive and face up to their emotions,and to realize that like others,all people(including himself)are worthy of sympathy.Previous studies found that Self-compassion is a positive emotion regulation strategy,which can effectively reduce the negative emotion experience.Fat Negative Physical Self(FNPS)is defined as negative cognition,emotion and behavior regarding the self as fat.There are some studies found that individuals with lower levels of self-compassion have higher levels of negative cognition of physical self.Based on this,the current study conducted to first verify whether the induction of self-compassion induction can alleviate negative emotional experience;secondly,to further explore the impact of self-compassion on the FNPS perception.Study 1 verifies whether self-compassion can be induced there by reducing negative emotions.A mixed experimental design of 2(Group: self-compassion induction group,control group)× 2(Emotion and Self-compassion Score: Pre-test,Post-test)was used.The mean scores of subjects before and after self-compassion and emotion were measured.The results showed that the mean scores of self-compassion groups in the post-test mood scores were significantly lower than the pre-test scores,and the self-compassion level scores were significantly higher than the pre-test scores,but there were no significant difference was found in the control group.The results showed that through the induction of self-compassion,the level of stateful self-compassion was significantly increased and negative emotions were significantly reduced.Study 1 explored that self-compassion can alleviate the negative emotional experience of negative events,so whether it can also reduce the negative emotional experience of negative physical self in the face of negative physical events,and form an objective cognition of physical self? Study 2 used vocabulary judgment tasks,using 2(Groups: Self-compassion induction group,Control group)× 2(Category: Body words,Non-body words)× 4(Relevance to physical information: positive,negative,metaphor,resemblance)Mixed experimental design.Among them,the group is an inter-group variable,the classification and the degree of correlation with physical information are intra-group variables,and the dependent variable is the subject’s emotional preference and response time when making a judgment on the stimulus words.The results show that the Self-compassion induction groups is significantly longer than the control group in judging the responses of negative,metaphoric,and similar words related to fat and negative body.The Self-compassion condition responded to the scores of emotional preferences of the words related to fat body.The scores of fat positive words,fat negative words,fat metaphor words and fat similar words were higher than those in the control group,but no significant difference between the two groups.The results of this study indicate that induced self-compassionate perspective effectively reduced the sensitivity of obese adolescent females with FNPS to information related to physical self schema,and the subjects of self-compassion induced group did not have positive emotional preferences for words related to physical self schema.In conclusion,we found that guiding young people to learn to treat themselves from the perspective of self-compassion can reduce the negative emotional experience of young people when facing negative events in life and form objective self cognitive.