Abstract

This study has been carried out in order to investigate the effects self-compassion on university life stress and stress coping strategy. The researcher has performed questionnaire on the self-compassion, university life stress and coping strategy for 232 university students. Finally, resources of 228 university students were used for the analysis. The Results of this study were as follows. First, there was a negative correlation between self-compassion, university life stress, and avoidance focused coping strategy. But there was a positive correlation between self-compassion and problem solving focused coping strategy. Second, common humanity had a significant effect upon the problem solving stress coping strategy. Also, mindfulness of self-compassion had a significant effect upon the avoidance stress coping strategy. Finally, university students with high score of self-compassion was less university life stress and used less avoidance focused coping strategy, more problem focused coping strategy. The implications and limitation of this study were discussed for future research were suggested. (Korean J Str Res 2014;22:131∼138)

• Keywords: Self-Compassion, University Life Stress, Stress Coping strategy