Self-Compassion, Self-Concept Clarity, and Rumination in Working Professionals

Abstract

This research study focus on the connections between self-compassion, self-concept clarity and rumination among the working professionals in the health and education sector in Pakistan that are often characterized with a substantial strain because of their occupation. Even though a few literatures on international research claim that self-compassion is healthy psychologically well-being characteristic of persons because of clarity of self-concept, and reduced rumination, little empirical study in the Pakistani context has been done to meet these variables in an interacting framework. The quantitative cross sectional correlational research design and the purposive sample of 200 professionals aged between 25 years and 50 years have been utilized in the current research. The respondents were given the standardized scales and these were Self-Compassion Scale-Short form (SCS-SF), Self-Concept Clarity Scale (SCCS), and Rumination-Reflection Questionnaire-Rumination subscale (RRQ-R). Correlation outcomes gave a significantly low value of self-companionship and rumination, and self-concept clarity and rumination. The mediation test under the guidance of Hayes PROCESS macro enabled them to establish that self-concept clarity was a crucial factor and extensively mediated the relationship between self-compassion and rumination.  The theoretical contribution of these findings is linked to the fact that the knowledge about the emotional processes of resilience will be expanded, and the practical implication of the findings refers to the fact that it will be possible to create an intervention that targets mental health in the workplace in the South Asian professional environments..