Helping the self help others: self-affirmation increases self-compassion and pro-social behaviors

Reflecting on an important personal value in a self-affirmation activity has been shown to improve psychological functioning in a broad range of studies, but the underlying mechanisms for these self-affirmation effects are unknown. Here we provide an initial test of a novel self-compassion account o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lindsay, Emily K., Creswell, J. David
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4026714/