What is it about?
self compassion is an important variable for understanding the relationship between perfectionism and psychosomatic distress. we have shown for the first time that high self compassion is protective, but low self compassion is a risk factor, in the context of psychosomatic distress.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that the level of self compassion is an important variable for follow-up studies. It is the beginning of an optional way to investigate if it is possible to change the level of psychosomatic distress induced by perfectionism by manipulating the level of self compassion.
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Writing this article was an amazing experience for me because this is my first published article. This article made me interested in the study of pathology and personality.
Maor Yeshua
Ruppin Academic Center
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This page is a summary of: “Silence! The body is speaking” – a correlational study of personality, perfectionism, and self-compassion as risk and protective factors for psychosomatic symptoms distress, Psychology Health & Medicine, November 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2018.1546016.
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