title: Does Self-Compassion Predict Spiritual Experiences of Turkish University Students?
abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive role of self-compassion on spiritual experiences. Participants were 285 university students. In this study, the self-compassion scale and the spiritual experiences scale were used. Self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness factors of self-compassion were found positively, and self-judgment, isolation, and over-identification factors of self-compassion were found negatively related to spiritual experiences. According to regression results, spiritual experiences were predicted negatively by self-judgment and over-identification. Further common humanity predicted spiritual experiences in a positive way. Self-compassion has explained 21 % of the variance in spiritual experiences.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Education, Department of Psychological Counselling and Guidance, Sakarya University, 54300, Sakarya, Turkey. aakin@sakarya.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Akin
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Education, Department of Psychological Counselling and Guidance, Sakarya University, 54300, Sakarya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Umran
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Akin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D029181:Spirituality; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014421:Turkey; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Regression analysis; Self-compassion; Spiritual experiences