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  • Psychology
  • Compassion Science

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  • Self-reassurance, a compassionate cognitive style, down-regulates neural threat and pain markers.
  • The connection between neural and self-report measures of reassurance is not well understood.
  • Previous research utilized fMRI to study neural responses during self-reassurance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between neural markers (fMRI) and self-report data during self-reassurance.
  • To explore correlations between brain activity and self-reported self-criticism and fear of self-compassion.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of previously published fMRI data measuring neural responses during self-reassurance.
  • Identification of correlations between fMRI-derived regions of interest and self-report measures.
  • Application of generalized additive modelling to analyze the relationship between neural activation and self-report data.

Main Results:

  • Greater inadequate self-criticism correlated with increased neural activation in the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and anterior insula (AI).
  • Fear of expressing self-compassion showed a non-significant relationship with MPFC activation after multiple comparison correction.
  • No significant relationships were found between brain activation and 'hated' or 'reassuring' forms of self-criticism.

Conclusions:

  • Preliminary evidence suggests neural activity during self-reassurance correlates with self-report markers.
  • A novel modelling method for neural and self-report data in compassion science is presented.
  • Findings have implications for future research, especially with clinical populations.