explanation of self-compassion based on attachment styles and perfectionism

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Mahboubeh Fooladchang
• Narjes Abbasi

Department of Educational Psychology, School of Education and Psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

10.30495/jpmm.2023.30163.3609

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to explain the mediating role of perfectionism in the relationship between attachment styles and students' self-compassion. The design of the present study is correlational in which the causal relationships between variables were studied in the form of structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the present study included all male and female undergraduate students of Shiraz University in the academic year of 1397-1398, of which 295 students (162 girls (54.9%) and 133 boys (45.1%)) by the method Multi-stage random cluster sampling was selected and the Revised Adult Attachment Style Scale (Collins and Read, 1990), Self-Compassion-Short Form (Raes, Neff and Van Guchet, 2010) and Perfection Completed Orientalism (Hill et al., 2004). The results of structural equations using Amos software showed that the final model fits well with the research data. The results of structural equation model showed that avoidant attachment style has a direct effect on self-compassion. Attachment styles also influenced adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism. In addition, the mediating role of adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism in the relationship between attachment styles and self-compassion was acknowledged. Overall, the results of this study indicate the determining role of attachment styles and perfectionism in students' self-compassion.

Keywords

• Self-compassion
• attachment styles
• adaptive perfectionism
• maladaptive perfectionism

Main Subjects

• Psychological Models and Methods

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