TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Neurostructural correlates of dispositional self-compassion
JO  - Neuropsychologia
A1  - Guan, Fang
A1  - Liu, Guanmin
A1  - Pedersen, Walker S.
A1  - Chen, Outong
A1  - Zhao, Sasa
A1  - Sui, Jie
A1  - Peng, Kaiping
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Self-compassion is an important emotion regulation strategy predicting positive psychological health and fewer psychopathological problems, but little is known about its structural neural basis. In the current study, we investigated the neurostructural correlates of dispositional self-compassion and its components using voxel-based morphometry (VBM). We found that self-compassion was inversely correlated with gray matter volume (GMV) in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), which was primarily driven by the reduced self-judgment component. We also found that the mindfulness component was associated with greater GMV in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex/anterior cingulate cortex and the left supplementary motor area, while the isolation and the over-identification components were both correlated with greater GMV in the right inferior temporal gyrus, and over-identification additionally related to less GMV in visual areas. Our findings suggest that dispositional self-compassion and its components are associated with brain structures in regions involved in emotion regulation, self-referential and emotion processing, with implications for the cognitive and neural mechanisms of self-compassion as well as those underlying the effects of self-compassion on its health outcomes.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0028-3932
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107978
ID  - ref1
ER  -