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The associations of self-compassion, 5C’s and mental wellbeing of adolescents

Over the last two decades, a psychological construct of self-compassion has been intensively researched. Self-compassion is defined as a self- attitude that involves treating oneself with warmth and understanding in difficult times and recognizing that making mistakes is part of being human. Since recently, practitioners and scientist are developing and evaluating interventions focused on improving self-compassion in adolescents. Studies indicate the potential of these interventions in preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral problems of adolescents. The present study examines the correlation between self-compassion, different components of 5C PYD model, and mental wellbeing of adolescents. The main aim is to explore the relative contribution of the particular 5C characteristics and self- compassion to wellbeing of adolescents. The survey was conducted on a sample of 568 students (64.7% female) from Croatian high schools with an average age of 16, 2. Positive Youth Development short form was used to assess 5C characteristics of youth (Geldhof et al., 2014). Self-compassion was assessed with the Self-Compassion Scale for Youth (Neff et al., 2021) while adolescents’ mental wellbeing was assessed with the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (Warwick Medical School, 1997). Preliminary analysis showed the presence of significant correlations between assessed constructs. The results of hierarchical regression analysis showed that combined, adolescents’ gender, age, and components of 5C model explained 59% of the variance of mental wellbeing in adolescents. Adding the self-compassion into the model increased the portion of the variance explained to 64%. In the final model, confidence, selfcompassion and connection were the strongest predictors of mental wellbeing of adolescents. Obtained results show the importance of self- compassion in understanding the positive development of youth.

self-compassion ; 5C model ; mental wellbeing ; adolescents

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