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August 25, 2025AdolescentsOpen Access

Self-Compassion as a Mediator of the Longitudinal Link Between Parent and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms

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SCSónia CherpeUniversity of CoimbraMCMarina CunhaInstituto Superior Miguel TorgaAXAna XavierHospitais da Universidade de Coimbra

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Longitudinal analysis reveals self-compassion mediates depressive symptoms in adolescents, highlighting parental influence.

Key Points

  • Self-compassion serves as a mediator of depressive symptoms, reducing long-term mental health risks.
  • Mediation analyses indicated that self-compassion accounted for 53% of the outcome variance in adolescent depression.
  • Longitudinal design examined parent-adolescent dyads over 12 months, with assessments at two time points.
  • Findings suggest fostering self-compassion in adolescents may mitigate adverse outcomes of depression.

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Cherpe et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af63e9ad7bf08b1eae4783https://doi.org/10.3390/adolescents5030045
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