Authors
Marcela Matos, Kirsten McEwan, Martin Kanovský, Júlia Halamová, Stanley R Steindl, Nuno Ferreira, Mariana Linharelhos, Daniel Rijo, Kenichi Asano, Sónia Gregório, Margarita G Márquez, Sara P Vilas, Gonzalo Brito‐Pons, Paola Lucena‐Santos, Margareth da Silva Oliveira, Erika Leonardo de Souza, Lorena Llobenes, Natali Gumiy, Maria Ileana Costa, Noor Habib, Reham Hakem, Hussain Khrad, Ahmad Alzahrani, Simone Cheli, Nicola Petrocchi, Elli Tholouli, Philia Issari, Gregoris Simos, Vibeke Lunding‐Gregersen, Ask Elklit, Russell Kolts, Allison C Kelly, Catherine Bortolon, Pascal Delamillieure, Marine Paucsik, Julia E Wahl, Mariusz Zieba, Mateusz Zatorski, Tomasz Komendziński, Shuge Zhang, Jaskaran Basran, Antonios Kagialis, James Kirby, Paul Gilbert
Publication date
2021/11
Journal
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
Volume
28
Issue
6
Pages
1317-1333
Description
Background
The COVID‐19 pandemic is a massive global health crisis with damaging consequences to mental health and social relationships. Exploring factors that may heighten or buffer the risk of mental health problems in this context is thus critical. Whilst compassion may be a protective factor, in contrast fears of compassion increase vulnerability to psychosocial distress and may amplify the impact of the pandemic on mental health. This study explores the magnifying effects of fears of compassion on the impact of perceived threat of COVID‐19 on depression, anxiety and stress, and social safeness.
Methods
Adult participants from the general population (N = 4057) were recruited across 21 countries worldwide, and completed self‐report measures of perceived threat of COVID‐19, fears of compassion (for self, from others, for others), depression, anxiety, stress and social safeness.
Results
Perceived …
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