Effects Of The Mindful Self-Compassion Program On The University Student's Self-Compassion

The aim of this research is to develop a psycho-education program with the intention of increasing the individuals' level of self-compassion and test the aforementioned program's efficiency on the university students. An experimental design with experimental-control groups, pre-test, post-test and follow-up tests is used in the research. Mindful Self-Compassion Program, which is 8 session, is implemented on the experimental group, and for the control group, no experimental procedure is implemented. Self-Compassion Scale, which is developed by Neff and adapted to Turkish by Deniz, Kesici and Sümer, and personal information form, is used as data collection tool. Descriptive statistics, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, and Mann Whitney U Test were used when testing hypotheses. There is no significant difference between the experimental and control groups' self-compassion scores before the experimental procedure. After the experimental procedure, participants' self-compassion scores in the experimental group were found to be significantly higher than those in the control group. In the follow-up measurement applied one month after the experimental procedure, there was no significant difference between the post-test scores of the experimental group and the follow-up test scores. According to these results, it can be said that the Mindful Self-Compassion Program is effective in increasing the self-compassion levels of the individuals