Compassion Protects Mental Health and Social Safeness During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across 21 Countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The COVID-19 pandemic is having an unprecedented detrimental impact on mental health in people around the world. It is important therefore to explore factors that may buffer or accentuate the risk of mental health problems in this context. Given that compassion has numerous benefits for mental health, emotion regulation, and social relationships, this study examines the buffering effects of different flows of compassion (for self, for others, from others) against the impact of perceived threat of COVID-19 on depression, anxiety, and stress, and social safeness.

Methods

The study was conducted in a sample of 4057 adult participants from the general community population, collected across 21 countries from Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, Asia, and

SUBMITTER: Matos M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8724602 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature