Exchange of Self for others Associations Between Social Awareness, Self-Compassion, and Satisfaction in Social Relationships
Date of Award
2011
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Social Sciences
First Advisor
Graham, Steven
Keywords
Social Awareness, Self Compassion, Social Relationships, Satisfaction, Social Perspective-Taking
Area of Concentration
Psychology
Abstract
Self-compassion is a recently proposed construct based in Buddhist philosophy which represents fostering a warm and comforting attitude towards those aspects of oneself and one's life that are disliked. The current studies examined self-compassion from within the context of two distinct forms of social awareness styles: �imagine other� and �imagine self.� Two studies used the Self-Compassion Scale (Neff, 2003a) to examine self-compassion�s association with social awareness style, attribution-making, and perceived satisfaction in relationships. For the first study, perspective-taking was assessed using the Social Awareness Inventory (Sheldon, 1996). In a second study, participants were placed in either a imagine other, imagine self, or objective perspective-taking condition and were instructed to write about a time they witnessed a peer experience a negative event. In opposition to the hypothesis, social awareness style was not related to self-compassion. In line with the expected results, however, self-compassion was related to relationship satisfaction. Additionally, common humanity, a main constituent of self-compassion, was found to be associated with both the imagine other perspective-taking style as well as satisfaction in social relationships.
Recommended Citation
deCordre', Meg, "Exchange of Self for others Associations Between Social Awareness, Self-Compassion, and Satisfaction in Social Relationships" (2011). Theses & ETDs. 4502.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/4502
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