Relationships of Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Meditation Experience With Shame-Proneness
Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy January 1, 2014 Hannah Woods, Michael Proeve
Shame-proneness is strongly linked to worse mental health, while guilt-proneness is less harmful. In a sample of undergraduates, shame-proneness was strongly negatively correlated with all facets of mindfulness and with self-compassion, whereas guilt-proneness was weakly positively correlated with self-compassion and some facets of mindfulness. Hierarchical regression showed that shame-proneness was predicted by self-compassion but not by mindfulness. More frequent meditation was associated with greater mindfulness and self-compassion and lower shame-proneness, but not guilt-proneness.