Mindful Self-Compassion Training Reduces Stress and Burnout Symptoms Among Practicing Psychologists: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Web-Based Intervention
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Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a six-week web-based mindful self-compassion program on stress and burnout symptoms in a group of helping professionals. Method: In a randomized controlled trial 101 practicing psychologists were assigned to a training group (n = 51) and a wait-list control group (n = 49). The training program involved 15 min exercises per day, six days a week, for six weeks. The participants completed the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS), the Five Facets of Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), and the Shirom Melamed Burnout Questionnaire (SMBQ) pre and post intervention. Results: Eighty-one participants (n = 40 in the training group, n = 41 in the control group) took part in the pre and post assessments. Selective gains for the intervention group were observed for SCS total score (d = 0.86; d = .94 for the self-compassion scale). Levels of self-coldness were reduced following the training and mindfulness scores increased (d = 0.60). Most important, levels of perceived stress (d = .59) and burnout symptoms (d = .44 for SMBQ total, mental aspects in particular) were lower post intervention. The results largely confirmed the hypothesis that the measures of distress would be more strongly related to self-coldness than self-compassion, a pattern seen in cross-sectional analyses and longitudinal analyses, at least for burnout. Conclusions: The mindful self-compassion program appeared effective to increase self-compassion/reduce self-coldness, and to alleviate stress and symptoms of burnout in the study sample. Additional studies, preferably three-armed RCTs with long-term follow-up, are warranted to further evaluate the effectiveness of the program.
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The self-guided format, which lacks an external figure who delivers the intervention contents, offers a high degree of availability, flexibility, and convenience.
“The self-guided format, which implies the lack of an external figure who delivers the contents of the intervention, offers a high degree of availability, flexibility, and convenience [24].”
The attrition rate in the present study was elevated (11/26; 42%) and falls at the superior end of the range of rates reported for minimally monitored or guided Internet-based online self-compassion interventions in nonclinical samples (17% to 55%).
“The attrition rate in the present study, while elevated (n = 11/26; 42%), falls at the superior end of the range of rates reported for minimally monitored or guided Internet-based online self-compassion interventions in nonclinical samples (17% to 55%; Eriksson et al., 2018; Finlay-Jones et al., 2017; Halamová et al., 2018a; Krieger et al., 2016; Sommers-Spijkerman et al., 2018).”
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- Authors
- Eriksson, T., Germundsjö, L., Åström, E., & Rönnlund, M.
- Affiliations
- Umeå University (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Rönnlund, Michael
- Venue
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2018-11-27
- Volume
- 9
- Pages
- 2340-2340
- ISSN
- 1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6277494
- OpenAlex
- W2903400622
- Cited by
- 225
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 70 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 27.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Frontiers in Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DiVA at Umeå University (Umeå University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Keywords
- mindful self-compassion, self-compassion, self-coldness, burnout, perceived stress, psychologists, helping professionals, online intervention, mindfulness, occupational stress, mental health of psychologists
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