The Relationship Of Self-compassion,Coping Style And Compassion Fatigue Of Psychological Counselor Study

Compassion fatigue is the helpers’ mental health problem.It is point to that when helpers provide aid and empathy in order to help another(realistic,connotative or imaginative),produce burnout of helping work, even get secondary trauma. Then helpers’empathy ability and interest will decline.Even helpers’values and world view might be changed.At the same time,they often have some physical and psychological symptoms.Compassion fatigue can create significant impact to helpers’job and life. So reducing their compassion fatigue has special significance.In this paper psychological counselor were tested I revised compassion fatigue scale and investigated characteristics of psychological counselor’s self-compassion and compassion fatigue on the basis of previous studies and the internal influential factor of compassion fatigue.I also investigated the mechanism of self-compassion and compassion——mediating role of coping.In this study I using questionnaire method, select self-compassion scale, simple coping scale and compassion fatigue scale of this paper revised as research tools.I grant questionnaires to 622 psychological counselors I collect and analyzed the data. The results show that:First,the compassion fatigue scale that this paper revised contains two factors:job burnout and secondary trauma.The a factor of the total scale is 0.909,split-half reliability is 0904.And the content validity and construct validity of this scale is good.It’s the goodness of fit meet the requirements.Second,the characteristics of psychological counselor’s self-compassion is that:Isolation and over-identification of male psychological counselor is higher than female psychological counselor. The self-judgment and over-identification of psychological counselor under the age of 35 is higher than psychological counselor over the age of 36. Self-judgment, isolation and over-identification of unmarried psychological counselor is higher than married psychological counselor.In educational background(college graduate,undergraduate,master,doctor),there is no significant difference in self-compassion of psychological counselor and it’s factors. Self-judgment and over-identification of psychological counselor who was work less than 9 years is higher than psychological counselor who was work over 10 years.Over-identification of psychological counselor who comes from school is higher than psychological counselor who not comes from school.Third,the characteristics of psychological counselor’s compassion fatigue is that:In gender,there is no significant difference in compassion fatigue of psychological counselor and it’s factors.Compassion fatigue of psychological counselor under the age of 35 is higher than psychological counselor over the age of 36.Job burnout and compassion fatigue of unmarried psychological counselor is higher than married psychological counselor.In educational background(college graduate,undergraduate,master,doctor),there is no significant difference in compassion fatigue of psychological counselor and it’s factors.Compassion fatigue of psychological counselor who was work less than 9 years is higher than psychological counselor who was work over 10 years.Compassion fatigue of psychological counselor who comes from school is higher than psychological counselor who not comes from school.Fourth,there is a significant negative correlation between self-compassion and compassion fatigue.There is a significant positive correlation between self-compassion and positive coping.There is a significant negative correlation between self-compassion and negative coping.There is a significant negative correlation between negative coping and compassion fatigue.Fifth,self-compassion of psychological counselor can forecast compassion fatigue negatively.When negative coping is in,the ability of self-compassion’s forecast is reduce.It indicates that self-compassion of psychological counselor influence fatigue by negative coping.Negative coping play partially mediating role between self-compassion and compassion fatigue.