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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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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)
OpenAlex
W2116825219
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
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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