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Relation between family strain and depressive symptoms in middle-aged adults: the moderating effect of self-compassion

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Interpersonal strain is linked with depressive symptoms in middle-aged adults. Self-compassion is an emerging resilience construct that may be advantageous in navigating relationship strain by helping individuals respond to emotions in a kind and nonjudgmental way. Although theory and empirical evidence suggests that self-compassion is protective against the impact of stress on mental health outcomes, many studies have not investigated how self-compassion operates in the context of relationship strain. In addition, few studies have examined psychological or physiological mechanisms by which self-compassion protects against mental health outcomes, depression in particular. Thus, this study examined 1) the extent to which trait self-compassion buffers the relation between family strain and depressive symptoms, and 2) whether these buffering effects are mediated by hope and inflammatory processes (IL-6) in a sample of 762 middle-aged, community-dwelling adults. Results from structural equation models indicated that family strain was unrelated to depressive symptoms and the relation was not moderated by self-compassion. Hope, but not IL-6, mediated the relation between family strain and depressive symptoms and the indirect effect was not conditional on levels of self-compassion. Taken together, the findings suggest that family strain may lead individuals to experience less hope and subsequent increases in depressive symptoms, and further, that a self-compassionate attitude does not affect this relation. Implications for future self-compassion interventions are discussed.

Date Created
2019
Contributors
  • Mistretta, Erin (Author)
  • Davis, Mary C. (Thesis advisor)
  • Karoly, Paul (Committee member)
  • Infurna, Frank (Committee member)
  • Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
  • Clinical Psychology
  • depressive symptoms
  • Hope
  • middle-age
  • relationship strain
  • Self-Compassion
  • Attitude (Psychology)
  • Middle-aged persons--Psychology.
  • Families--Psychological aspects.
Resource Type
Text
Genre
Masters Thesis
Academic theses
Extent
vii, 93 pages : illustrations
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.55478
Statement of Responsibility
by Erin Grace Mistretta
Description Source
Viewed on October 28, 2020
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2019
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Clinical psychology
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  • 2020-01-14 09:12:39
System Modified
  • 2021-08-26 09:47:01
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  • 1 year 5 months ago
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  • MODS XML

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