Neurostructural correlates of dispositional self-compassion

NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

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Article

Guan, Fang¹  Liu, Guanmin¹  Pedersen, Walker S.²  Chen, Outong^3,4  Zhao, Sasa⁵  Sui, Jie⁶  Peng, Kaiping¹ 

[1] Tsinghua Univ, Dept Psychol, Beijing, Peoples R China

[2] Harvard Med Sch, Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Dept Psychiat, Charlestown, MA USA

[3] Qingdao Univ, Normal Coll, Qingdao, Peoples R China

[4] Qingdao Univ, Sch Educ, Qingdao, Peoples R China

[5] Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Inst Sci Cognit Marc Jeannerod, UMR 5229, Lyon, France

[6] Univ Aberdeen, Sch Psychol, Aberdeen, Scotland

关键词: Self-compassion;    Self-judgment;    Mindfulness;    Emotion regulation;    Voxel-based morphometry;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107978

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Self-compassion is an important emotion regulation strategy predicting positive psychological health and fewer psychopathological problems, but little is known about its structural neural basis. In the current study, we investigated the neurostructural correlates of dispositional self-compassion and its components using voxel-based morphometry (VBM). We found that self-compassion was inversely correlated with gray matter volume (GMV) in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), which was primarily driven by the reduced self-judgment component. We also found that the mindfulness component was associated with greater GMV in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex/anterior cingulate cortex and the left supplementary motor area, while the isolation and the over-identification components were both correlated with greater GMV in the right inferior temporal gyrus, and over-identification additionally related to less GMV in visual areas. Our findings suggest that dispositional self-compassion and its components are associated with brain structure in regions involved in emotion regulation, self-referential and emotion processing, with implications for the cognitive and neural mechanisms of selfcompassion as well as those underlying the effects of self-compassion on its health outcomes.

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