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Article: Self-Compassion May Be More Important Than Self-Esteem in Coping with Negative Events, New Studies Show.
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- May 14, 2007
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Byline: Duke University
DURHAM, N.C., May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Why do some people roll with life's punches, facing failures and problems with grace, while others dwell on calamities, criticize themselves and exaggerate problems?
The answer, according to researchers from Duke and Wake Forest universities, may be self-compassion - the ability to treat oneself kindly when things go badly. The results of their research, one of the first major investigations of self-compassion, were published in the May 2007 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
"Life's tough enough with little things that happen. Self-compassion helps to ...