Predicting self-compassion in UK nursing students: Relationships with resilience, engagement, motivation, and mental wellbeing
Journal article
Authors | Kotera, Y., Cockerill, V., Chircop, James, Kaluzeviciute, G. and Dyson, Sue E. |
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Abstract | Self-compassion, being kind towards oneself, has been identified as a key protective factor of mental health. This is consistent with students’ experiences in the study of nursing, which attracts a large number of students in the United Kingdom. Despite the importance of self-compassion, knowledge in how to enhance self-compassion is under-researched. Self-compassion interventions are commonly related to meditative exercises. In order to suggest alternative approaches, relationships between self-compassion and more established constructs need to be appraised. Accordingly, this study evaluated predictors of self-compassion, examining its relationships with more established constructs examined in other healthcare student populations: resilience, engagement, motivation and mental wellbeing. An opportunity sample of 182 UK nursing students at a university in East Midlands completed self-report measures about these constructs. Correlation and regression analyses were conducted. Self-compassion was positively related to resilience, engagement, intrinsic motivation and mental wellbeing, while negatively related to amotivation. Resilience and mental wellbeing were identified as significant predictors of self-compassion. As resilience and mental wellbeing are relatively familiar to many nursing lecturers and students, educators can incorporate a self-compassion component into the existing resilience training and/or mental wellbeing practices. |
Keywords | self-compassion; resilience; nursing students; mental wellbeing; cross-sectional study; regression analysis |
Year | 2021 |
Journal | Nurse Education in Practice |
Publisher | Elsevier |
ISSN | 1471-5953 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2021.102989 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/625614 |
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Publication dates | 11 Feb 2021 |
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Deposited | 12 Feb 2021, 11:05 |
Accepted | 02 Feb 2021 |
Contributors | University of Derby |
File | File Access Level Open |
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https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/93xxv/predicting-self-compassion-in-uk-nursing-students-relationships-with-resilience-engagement-motivation-and-mental-wellbeing
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