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Huihui Wang1, Xueting Zhang1, Arsalan Haider2
1College of Teacher Education, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, 750000, China.
Abstract:
Although self-compassion has been linked to self-control, little is known about the psychological mechanisms underlying this relationship. This cross-sectional study examined whether resilience and pathological narcissism statistically mediate the association between self-compassion and self-control in a sample of 3766 Chinese undergraduates (Mage = 18.74, SD = 1.42). Parallel mediation analyses revealed significant indirect effects via resilience (indirect effect = 0.05, 95% CI = [0.04, 0.06], accounting for 11.2% of the total effect) and via pathological narcissism (indirect effect = 0.09, 95% CI = [0.07, 0.10], accounting for 20.2%). Specifically, self-compassion was positively associated with resilience, which in turn predicted higher self-control. For the narcissism pathway, self-compassion was negatively associated with narcissism, which, in turn, negatively predicts self-control. These findings suggest that resilience and pathological narcissism may help explain how self-compassion relates to self-control.
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