Mindful Self-compassion and Perfectionism

NCT ID: NCT03453437

Last Updated: 2021-08-17

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

379 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-02-03

Study Completion Date

2019-05-14

Brief Summary

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The study is a randomized controlled study. A total of 200 students will be invited to participate in a 5-session mindful self-compassion course aimed at increasing self-compassion and reducing maladaptive perfectionism, anxiety, depression, and unhealthy body image. Self-compassion is the ability to show oneself kindness in instances of perceived inadequacy, failure, and suffering by attending to distressing experiences with kindness, mindfulness, and the ability to recognize these as a part of a shared humanity. Twelve participants will be randomly selected for pre- and post interviews to qualitatively evaluate outcome. Ten participants with high perfectionistic tendencies will be selected to participate in a narrative life story interview.

Detailed Description

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The investigators will test four hypotheses:

1. At baseline, low levels of maladaptive perfectionism, and lower levels of depression, anxiety and body appreciation - reversed, will be related to greater self-compassion. The investigators expect high level of maladaptive perfectionism to be related to lower baseline self-compassion, higher levels of depression and anxiety and lower levels of body appreciation.
2. The intervention, a five session self-compassion intervention, will be sufficient to induce positive changes in perfectionism and psychological symptoms of anxiety, depression and body-appreciation- reversed.
3. Changes in self-compassion will co-vary with changes in maladaptive perfectionism and body appreciation.
4. Higher baseline levels of maladaptive perfectionism will predict greater gains from the intervention, because perfectionistic students will have greater need for a self-compassion intervention.

Conditions

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Perfectionism Depression Anxiety Body Image

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Control group

Receiving no intervention (control groups will be offered the intervention after the experimental group has completed the course)

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Active group

Receiving Mindful Self-Compassion intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Mindful Self-Compassion

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Mindful self-compassion is a course developed by Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer designed to cultivate self-compassion as measured by three subcategories: self-kindness, mindfulness, and a sense of common humanity. This study will shorten the original 8-week course to 5 sessions, and will include interventions and lectures aimed directly toward addressing evaluative concerns perfectionism.

Interventions

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Mindful Self-Compassion

Mindful self-compassion is a course developed by Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer designed to cultivate self-compassion as measured by three subcategories: self-kindness, mindfulness, and a sense of common humanity. This study will shorten the original 8-week course to 5 sessions, and will include interventions and lectures aimed directly toward addressing evaluative concerns perfectionism.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* College/university students

Exclusion Criteria

* N/A
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Bergen

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Per-Einar Binder, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Bergen

Locations

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University of Bergen

Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

Site Status

Countries

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Norway

References

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Reference Type DERIVED
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Other Identifiers

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UiBMSC2018

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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