Self-Compassion Mediates Religiosity and Social Support for the Psychological Well-Being of Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on the psychological well-being of health workers. This study aims to examine the role of self-compassion as a mediator of the relationship between religiosity and social support with the psychological well-being of health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research participants involved 289 health workers in health facilities in the Central Java region including hospitals, health centre, and clinics obtained by convenience sampling technique. Data analysis used the Process Macro v4.0 which was installed on SPSS v26.0. The results of this study indicate that self-compassion acts as a mediator of the relationship between religiosity and psychological well-being (effect =0.269; CI 0.168-0.389; R 2 med 0.028), and self compassion acts as a mediator of the relationship between social support and psychological well-being (effect =0.172; CI 0.113-0.240; R 2 med 0.040). However, self compassion as a mediator just plays a small role. The implication of this research is that health workers are focused on efforts to provide care and love for themselves such as motivating themselves, thinking positively, realizing what happens in life is human life experience.