Fostering Self-Compassion and Need Satisfaction. Effectiveness of an Online Intervention
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Student self-compassion and basic psychological needs satisfaction play an important role in favouring overall well-being and resilience. Previous research based on correlational studies found they relate, letting open the question of the direction and the possibility that acting on self-compassion – a stable disposition – will affect perceived need satisfaction and frustration. This study aimed at filling in this research gap by testing the effectiveness of a self-compassion intervention to raise need satisfaction and curb need frustration. One-hundred-fifty-one university students were administered questionnaires to assess self-compassion and need satisfaction/frustration before and after participation to a four-week online programme (n=75) consisting in a range of self-compassion induction activities (compassionate imaging, reflecting, writing), proposed later to the waiting list control group (n=76). The results confirmed the effectiveness of the intervention in increasing self-compassion as well as need satisfaction by decreasing need frustration. Theoretical and educational implications as well as directions for future research are discussed.
