Self-compassion training modulates alpha-amylase, heart rate variability, and subjective responses to social evaluative threat in women
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A growing body of research has revealed that social evaluative stressors trigger biological and psychological responses that in chronic forms have been linked to aging and disease. Recent research suggests that self-compassion may protect the self from typical defensive responses to evaluation. We investigated whether brief training in self-compassion moderated biopsychological responses to the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) in women. Compared to attention (placebo) and no-training control conditions, brief self-compassion training diminished sympathetic (salivary alpha-amylase), cardiac parasympathetic, and subjective anxiety responses, though not HPA-axis (salivary cortisol) responses to the TSST. Self-compassion training also led to greater self-compassion under threat relative to the control groups. In that social stress pervades modern life, self-compassion represents a promising approach to diminishing its potentially negative psychological and biological effects.
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Only two included studies assessed confounding factors, and only five reported the method of randomization.
“Only two studies assessed confounding factors, such as demand characteristics34,35, and only five reported the method of randomization36–40.”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThese compassion studies used as the major outcome measure a scale of Self-Compassion that assessed the same emotions that were elicited during the intervention.
“Also, these studies used as the major outcome measure a scale of Self-Compassion that assessed the same emotions that were elicited during the intervention35,37,38,47.”
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The Methods (Measures; page unavailable) say the study used the Self-Compassion Scale to assess changes in self-compassion, and Methods (Design and Procedures; page unavailable) describe training in kindness and acceptance toward oneself. But the paper also identifies anxiety and physiological responses as major outcomes; it does not present the Self-Compassion Scale as the major outcome measure. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredEarlier studies have failed to find any effects of contemplative mental training on HF-HRV at rest.
“Earlier studies have failed to find any effects of contemplative mental training on HF-HRV at rest52–54.”
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The null result for Local Power at rest is in line with earlier studies investigating the effects of contemplative mental training on HF-HRV.
“This is in line with earlier studies investigating the effects of contemplative mental training on HF-HRV52–54.”
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Recent studies on compassion using alternate forms of measurement, for example physiological measures such as heart-rate variability, provide important additional data to this debate.
“Recent studies on compassion using alternate forms of measurement, for example physiological measures such as heart-rate variability, provide important additional data to this debate [124–129].”
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After brief self-compassionate training, the self-compassion group showed greater resilience during a social threat than attention control or no intervention groups.
“After brief self-compassionate training, the self-compassion group showed greater resilience during a social threat than the other two groups [29].”
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Eight included studies used written or recorded meditation instructions.
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Compassion cultivation buffers against deleterious effects of psychosocial stressors by reducing autonomic stress response reactivity.
“Besides, compassion cultivation has been proved to buffer against the deleterious effects of psychosocial stressors by reducing the reactivity of the autonomic stress response (Arch et al., 2014; Breines et al., 2014), and may be of particular interest during the current COVID-19 pandemic (Khoury, 2020).”
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- Authors
- Arch, J. J., Brown, K. W., Dean, D. J., Landy, L. N., Brown, K. D., & Laudenslager, M. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
- University of Colorado Anschutz (US)
- Corresponding author
- Arch, Joanna J.
- Venue
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-04
- Volume
- 42
- Pages
- 49-58
- ISSN
- 0306-4530 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3985278
- OpenAlex
- W2116825219
- Semantic Scholar
- 0da0a4172d28968f552964c123cc629a2a0dd02f
- Cited by
- 290
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 6
- FWCI
- 25.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Psychoneuroendocrinology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (CA126971, R01CA126971)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Keywords
- self-compassion training, social-evaluative threat, Trier Social Stress Test, salivary amylase, heart rate variability, sympathetic nervous system, parasympathetic nervous system, anxiety, salivary cortisol, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, women, stress response
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Anxiety, Attention, Empathy, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System, Pituitary-Adrenal System, Saliva, Stress, Psychological, Meditation, Salivary alpha-Amylases, Young Adult
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