Self-compassion and flourishing among undergraduate students

Pages: 1207-1210
Sana Fatima and S. Reshma Jamal (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

The current world is full of competition and in pressure to perform well constantly. Therefore, it becomes important for an individual to be self- compassionate and flourish in every sphere of life. The purpose of the study was to find out the correlation between self-compassion and flourishing and further, to examine difference between male and female undergraduate students on flourishing and self -compassion. The sample of the study consists of 100 students, (male & female 50 each) between age range of 18-25. Flourishing Scale (Diener et al., 2010) and Self-Compassion Scale (Raes, Pommier, Neff, & Gucht, 2010) were used to collect the data. Purposive sampling was done to gather data. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation and t-test were used to analyze the data. The Results revealed a positive significant relationship between flourishing and self -compassion. Further, it shows that there exists significant difference between male and female undergraduate students on flourishing and no significant difference on self-compassion.