Psychophysiological stress response after a 6-week Mindful Self-Compassion training in psychiatric rehabilitation inpatients

Autor(en)

Andrea Andorfer, Sabina Kraler, Paul Kaufmann, Ewald Pollheimer, Christoph Spah, Jürgen Fuchshuber, Christian Rominger, Claudia Traunmüller, Andreas Schwerdtfeger, Human Friedrich Unterrainer

Abstrakt

Objectives: Mindfulness-based interventions (including self-compassion interventions) are effective in improving stress management at psychological and physical levels. Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is a newly developed program particularly aimed at increasing self-compassion. The main objective of this study was to determine whether the psychophysiological stress response during a social-evaluative speaking task differs in inpatients participating in the MSC or the Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) program at the end of their 6-week psychiatric rehabilitation stay (i.e., post-test only design). Method: Data from 50 inpatients (25 MSC, 25 PMR, 35 female) aged 19 to 76 years (M = 47.22, SD = 12.44) were analyzed in terms of psychophysiological stress response. For this purpose, heart rate variability, heart rate, and blood pressure were assessed together with several psychometric variables: positive and negative affect (PANAS), subjective stress perception (Visual Analog Scale), self-compassion (Self-Compassion Scale), cognitive reappraisal and suppression (Emotion Regulation Questionnaire), psychological distress (Brief Symptom Inventory-18), and appraisal and rumination (selected items). Results: After correction for alpha inflation no differences in the psychophysiological stress response and psychometric parameters between the MSC and PMR group were found. Discussion: In general, our results indicate that MSC is not superior to PMR training. However, more research with clinical randomized controlled trials investigating larger samples are needed to further affirm these initial findings.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Religionswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Medizinische Universität Graz, Verein Grüner Kreis, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Sonnenpark Neusiedlersee Zentrum für psychosoziale Gesundheit, Medizinische Universität Wien, Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität

Journal

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Band

14

ISSN

1664-0640

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1098122

Publikationsdatum

2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501001 Allgemeine Psychologie, 603909 Religionswissenschaft

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Psychiatry and Mental health

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/psychophysiological-stress-response-after-a-6week-mindful-selfcompassion-training-in-psychiatric-rehabilitation-inpatients(9faf3f59-150a-4b0a-88aa-2684f21dcde5).html