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You have passion, but do you have self-compassion? Harmonious passion, obsessive passion, and responses to passion-related failure

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dc.contributor.authorSchellenberg, B.J.I.
dc.contributor.authorBailis, D.S.
dc.contributor.authorMosewich, A.D.
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractWhen people fail at a passion in their lives, how do they respond? We conducted two studies with undergraduates to test whether self-compassionate responding and being fearful of engaging in self-compassion following failure depended on whether the passion was relatively harmonious or obsessive (Vallerand, 2015). In Study 1 (n = 349), we found support for a model whereby fear of self-compassion was positively predicted by obsessive passion and negatively predicted by harmonious passion. Fear of self-compassion, in turn, predicted lower levels of self-compassion. We extended these findings in Study 2 (n = 82) by testing the causal relationship between obsessive passion and fear of self-compassion using a mindset induction procedure. We found that participants in an obsessively passionate mindset reported greater levels of fear of self-compassion compared to those in a control condition. Self-compassion is known to produce adaptive responses to failure (Neff, 2009). The present findings suggest that people with a predominant obsessive passion are more likely to avoid treating themselves with kindness and compassion when faced with failure, a tendency that likely contributes to the known maladaptive outcomes that are characteristic of an obsessive passion in times of adversity.
dc.identifier.citationPersonality and Individual Differences, 2016; 99:278-285
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.paid.2016.05.003
dc.identifier.issn0191-8869
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/119096
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPergamon Press
dc.relation.fundingSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
dc.relation.fundingUniversity of Manitoba
dc.rightsCopyright 2016 Elsevier
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.05.003
dc.subjectself-compassion
dc.subjectfear of self-compassion
dc.subjectharmonious passion
dc.subjectobsessive passion
dc.subjectdualistic model of passion
dc.subjectmotivation
dc.subjectmediation
dc.subjectundergraduate students
dc.titleYou have passion, but do you have self-compassion? Harmonious passion, obsessive passion, and responses to passion-related failure
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished
ror.mmsid9916069405701831

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