Does compassion for oneself extend to prosocial behavior for others? Examining the relationship between self-compassion and prosocial behavior using multilevel meta-analysis

IF 2.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-14 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113047

Xinyi Liu , Jiayi Li, Xu Chen

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Self-compassion refers a positive attitude towards oneself, known to enhance individuals' psychological well-being. Its impact on interpersonal functions remains incompletely understood. A meta-analysis of research examining its relationship with prosocial behavior, delineating both overall and sub-components levels (i.e., self-warmth and self-coldness). From 59 studies (N = 39,625) yielding 369 effect sizes, multilevel meta-analysis revealed that self-compassion exhibits small-to-medium positive associations with general prosocial behavior and its diverse manifestations. Similar effect sizes were observed for the relationship between self-warmth and prosocial behavior, while self-coldness fails to yield significant effects. Moderation analysis indicated that the positive impact of self-compassion on prosocial behavior is contingent upon cultural context, types of prosocial behavior and sub-components of self-compassion. The association between self-warmth and prosocial behavior manifests variability across age groups. Future research should delve into the mediators of above links and the contexts in which it is most pronounced.

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对自己的同情会延伸到对他人的亲社会行为吗？运用多层次元分析研究自我同情与亲社会行为的关系

自我同情指的是对自己的一种积极的态度，可以增强个人的心理健康。它对人际关系功能的影响仍不完全清楚。对其与亲社会行为关系的研究进行了荟萃分析，描述了总体和次级成分水平（即自我温暖和自我冷漠）。通过对59项研究（N = 39,625）的369个效应量的多水平荟萃分析，发现自我同情与一般亲社会行为及其多种表现形式存在中小型正相关。自我温暖与亲社会行为之间的效应大小相似，而自我冷淡对亲社会行为的影响不显著。适度性分析表明，自我同情对亲社会行为的正向影响取决于文化背景、亲社会行为类型和自我同情的子成分。自我温暖和亲社会行为之间的关系在不同年龄组中表现出差异。未来的研究应深入研究上述联系的中介和最明显的背景。

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.