Physiological response to self-compassion versus relaxation in a clinical population.

(No hypothesis was made regarding negative affect due to previous conflicting findings) Self-report data indicated that across all participants, self-compassionate imagery had a small-to-medium-size effect on positive affect ( d = 0.40), producing a close-to-significant increase ( t (24) = -1.983, p = .059, 95% CI -5.38 to 0.11) from pre (M = 19.84, SD = 7.31) to post-imagery (M = 22.48, SD = 7.83).

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Nonetheless, the effect size for positive affect was small-to-medium-sized and showed a trend in the expected direction.

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