The network dynamics of self-compassion components and psychological symptoms during an intervention

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The change process of psychological interventions is complex and should be understood with a systems perspective. This study sought to examine the network dynamics of self-compassion components and psychological symptoms during an intervention. A total of 139 participants completed daily assessments during a 28-day intervention. Utilizing multilevel vector autoregressive (VAR) model, temporal and contemporaneous networks were generated and group differences in network dynamics were evaluated through descriptive assessment and permutation tests. The intervention group displayed a significant increase in self-compassion and decrease in psychological symptoms, with self-compassion mediating the intervention effects on symptoms. Network analysis revealed some network dynamics that might be relevant to desirable therapeutic changes in the intervention group. The intervention group demonstrated a significantly less connected contemporaneous depression network, indicating a decreased vulnerability to symptom activation. Additionally, the intervention group showed significantly more temporal connections from self-compassion to anxiety, indicating an increased influence of self-compassion on anxiety. These findings suggest that the intervention may have reshaped the interconnection pattern of symptoms and that between self-compassion components and symptoms.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Applied psychology. Health and well-being - 16(2024), 1 vom: 24. Feb., Seite 296-314

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huang, Jiasheng [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Siyu [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Wanting [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yuyin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Intervention process
Journal Article
Psychological network
Psychological symptoms
Self-compassion

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Date Completed 06.02.2024

Date Revised 06.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/aphw.12488

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361659873