{"id":1865,"date":"2023-12-21T12:58:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T10:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro\/?page_id=1865"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:32:51","slug":"tunde-poka-andrea-barta-laszlo-mero","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php\/2023-2\/2023-issue-no-2-vol-vii\/tunde-poka-andrea-barta-laszlo-mero\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcnde P\u00f3ka, Andrea Barta & L\u00e1szl\u00f3 M\u00e9r\u0151"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Self-Compassion Mediates the Relationships Between University Students\u2019 Mindfulness, Dysfunctional Attitudes, and Various Distress and Well-Being Indicators<\/i>
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\n Volume VII 2023, No 2, Pages: 35-66
\n DOI: http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.24193\/JRHE.2023.2.2<\/a>
\n T\u00fcnde P\u00f3ka, PhD Student, Evidence-Based Psychological Assessment and Interventions Doctoral School, Babe\u0219-Bolyai University, Romania, email: tunde.poka@ubbcluj.ro
\n Andrea Barta, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, Babe\u0219-Bolyai University, email: andrea.barta@ubbcluj.ro
\n L\u00e1szl\u00f3 M\u00e9r\u0151, Professor, Department of Affective Psychology, ELTE, Institute of Psychology, E\u00f6tv\u00f6s L\u00f3r\u00e1nd University, Hungary, email: mero.laszlo@ppk.elte.hu
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\n Abstract:<\/strong> Objective. The current study intended to model the relationships between mindfulness, dysfunctional attitudes, and self-compassion in predicting university students\u2019 various indicators of emotional distress and well-being of university students. We aimed to examine the mediative role of self-compassion and the mediative roles of self-coldness and self-warmth in these relationships.<\/p>\n

Methods. Applying a correlational design, validated instruments were used to measure mindfulness, dysfunctional attitudes, self-compassion (and its two main components: self-warmth and self-coldness), various indicators of emotional distress (i.e., negative affect, depression, anxiety, stress), and well-being (i.e., soothing positive affect, activating positive affect, satisfaction with life). The final sample consisted of N = 176 university students. The proposed models were tested by SEM (structural equation modeling) using SPSS AMOS 20.<\/p>\n

Results. The main results obtained were consistent with the hypotheses. As expected, higher levels of mindfulness led to higher well-being and lower emotional distress through increased self-compassion, and higher levels of dysfunctional attitudes led to lower well-being and higher emotional distress through decreased self-compassion. However, the results also indicated that self-coldness was more important than self-warmth in all of these relationships.<\/p>\n

Conclusion. The results of the proposed current study supported the models for the relationships between dysfunctional attitudes, mindfulness, and self-compassion (and its positive and negative components) in predicting the various indicators of emotional distress and well-being of university students. These findings support the use of self-compassion interventions, particularly those aimed at reducing self-coldness, to improve well-being and reduce distress among university students.
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\n Keywords:<\/strong> mindfulness, dysfunctional attitudes, self-compassion, distress, well-being\n<\/p>\n

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Self-Compassion Mediates the Relationships Between University Students\u2019 Mindfulness, Dysfunctional Attitudes, and Various Distress and Well-Being Indicators Article information: Volume VII 2023, No 2, Pages: 35-66 DOI: http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.24193\/JRHE.2023.2.2 T\u00fcnde P\u00f3ka, PhD Student, Evidence-Based Psychological Assessment and Interventions Doctoral School, Babe\u0219-Bolyai University, Romania, email: tunde.poka@ubbcluj.ro Andrea Barta, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, Babe\u0219-Bolyai University, email: andrea.barta@ubbcluj.ro …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1852,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":44,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1865","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1865\/revisions\/2260"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrehe.reviste.ubbcluj.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}