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Does Self-Compassion Predict Spiritual Experiences of Turkish University Students?

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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.

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Akin, A., Akin, U. Does Self-Compassion Predict Spiritual Experiences of Turkish University Students?. J Relig Health 56, 109–117 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-015-0138-y

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