Lucy Sessions, Noelle Robertson, Christopher Jones, Alice Welham
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Purpose: Social work is an intrinsically challenging profession, with high levels of distress and burnout reported amongst professionals. Self-compassion has been suggested as a coping resource that may benefit social workers and reduce levels of distress. There is reason to believe that low self-compassion may confer a vulnerability in social workers, particularly student social workers. The current review aimed to examine how reported levels of self-compassion in social workers compare to the general population and how they compare between qualified and student social workers. Additionally, this review explored the relationship between self-compassion and age, sex/gender, psychological distress, and work-related psychological wellbeing within social workers.
Materials and methods: A systematic literature search was conducted using APA PsycINFO, Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL, and Medline. Twenty-nine articles met inclusion criteria and were assessed for risk of bias. Meta-analysis was used to synthesize the results.
Results: The meta-analysis found that qualified social workers reported significantly higher levels of self-compassion than student social workers and published general population estimates, although heterogeneity was high. There was some evidence to suggest that levels of self-compassion are related to age, but not to sex/gender. Self-compassion was significantly negatively correlated with psychological distress.
Discussion and conclusion: The tentative conclusion that qualified social workers may report relatively high levels of self-compassion is encouraging, given the evidenced negative relationship with psychological distress. Given student social workers appear to report lower levels of self-compassion, they may benefit from interventions/support to bolster it, although systemic factors influencing wellbeing must also be considered.
目的:社会工作本质上是一个具有挑战性的职业,在专业人士中有高水平的痛苦和倦怠。自我同情被认为是一种应对资源,可能有利于社会工作者并降低痛苦程度。有理由相信,低自我同情可能会给社会工作者,特别是学生社会工作者带来脆弱性。目前的研究旨在研究社会工作者的自我同情水平与一般人群的比较,以及在合格社会工作者和学生社会工作者之间的比较。此外,本研究还探讨了社工自我同情与年龄、性别、心理困扰和工作相关心理健康之间的关系。材料和方法:使用APA PsycINFO、Scopus、Web of Science、CINAHL和Medline进行系统的文献检索。29篇文章符合纳入标准,并进行了偏倚风险评估。采用meta分析对结果进行综合分析。结果:荟萃分析发现,合格的社会工作者报告的自我同情水平明显高于学生社会工作者和公布的一般人群估计,尽管异质性很高。有证据表明,自我同情的程度与年龄有关,而与性别无关。自我同情与心理困扰呈显著负相关。讨论与结论:考虑到已证实的自我同情与心理困扰的负相关关系,合格的社会工作者可能报告相对较高水平的自我同情这一初步结论是令人鼓舞的。鉴于学生社工的自我同情水平似乎较低,他们可能会从干预/支持中受益,尽管影响幸福感的系统性因素也必须考虑在内。