Cultivating Compassion for Self and Others: A School‐Based Pilot Study for Peer‐Nominated Caring Adolescents

Many have called for school‐based student programs that teach skills related to self‐care and caring for others. Here, such a program for peer‐nominated adolescents was developed and piloted virtually at one high school during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Results of a longitudinal, quasi‐experimental eval...

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Published in:Journal of research on adolescence 2023-03, Vol.33 (1), p.169-187
Main Authors: Colaianne, Blake A., Lavelle, Brooke D., Small, Meg L., Roeser, Robert W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
adolescent development
Adolescent girls
Adolescents
compassion
COVID-19
Empathy
Female
high school
Humans
Interdependence
Mindfulness
Pandemics
Pilot Projects
Program evaluation
Program implementation
school‐based prevention
Secondary schools
Self care
Self compassion
Sympathy
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Summary:Many have called for school‐based student programs that teach skills related to self‐care and caring for others. Here, such a program for peer‐nominated adolescents was developed and piloted virtually at one high school during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Results of a longitudinal, quasi‐experimental evaluation of the program showed high‐quality program implementation and promising program impacts. Effect sizes indicated moderate to large program impacts on improvements in adolescents' self‐compassion, sense of interdependence, and perspective‐taking, and female adolescents' interoceptive awareness, compared to controls. No group differences in compassion for others were found. The need for more research on programs that help adolescents balance compassion for the self and for others is discussed.
ISSN:1050-8392
1532-7795
DOI:10.1111/jora.12795