Self-compassion, resilience and psychological well-being among Malaysian counsellors / Voon Siok Ping
In line with the movement of self-care for both counsellor practitioners and educators, the present study was conducted with the intention to investigate the relationship between self-compassion, resilience and psychological well-being among registered counsellors in Malaysia. Besides, the curren...
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2019
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总结: | In line with the movement of self-care for both counsellor practitioners and
educators, the present study was conducted with the intention to investigate the
relationship between self-compassion, resilience and psychological well-being
among registered counsellors in Malaysia. Besides, the current research examined
the mediating effect of resilience and moderating effects of gender and year of
experience on counsellors‘ psychological well-being.
This study was a cross-sectional quantitative research and data was collected
via web-based survey. Based on the list of registered counsellors obtained from the
Malaysian Board of Counsellor, an invitation email with the link accessible to the
questionnaire was sent and participation was on voluntary basis. Three instruments
namely the Self-Compassion Scale, the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale and the
Scale of Psychological Well-Being were utilized. All three instruments reported
satisfactory reliability, with CR value of .858 (self-compassion), .908 (resilience) and
.898 (psychological well-being).
A total of 408 participants were involved in this study, comprising 109 male
counsellors and 299 female counsellors from the 13 states and 2 federal territories of
Malaysia. The descriptive analysis showed that, as a group, registered counsellors in
Malaysia exhibited high overall self-compassion (M=101.16), high resilience
(M=33.26) and high overall psychological well-being (M=198.21).
PLS-SEM served as the main data analysis method for this study,
specifically, the Smart-PLS 3.0 software was employed. The inferential analysis
demonstrated that (a) self-compassion was significantly and positively related to
psychological well-being, β = .499, p < .001; (b) self-compassion was significantly and positively related to resilience, β = .639, p < .001; (c) resilience was significantly
and positively related to psychological well-being, β = .366, p < .001; (d) there was a
significant mediating effect of resilience on self-compassion and psychological wellbeing,
β = .234, p < .001, (e) there was a significant moderating effect of gender on
self-compassion and psychological well-being, β = .066, p < .05, with stronger
relationship reported for female counsellors while there was no significant
moderating effect of gender on resilience and psychological well-being β = -.192, p >
.05, (f) there were no significant moderating effect of year of experience for both
self-compassion, resilience and psychological well-being, with β = .003, p > .05 and
β = -.013, p > .05 respectively. Results also revealed that self-compassion has a large
effect on counsellors‘ resilience and psychological well-being whereas resilience has
a medium effect on counsellors‘ psychological well-being. Overall, the research
model explained a substantial amount of variance (61.6%) in counsellors‘
psychological well-being.
As evidenced by the empirical findings of this study, the hypothesized model
holds true that self-compassion and resilience related to counsellors‘ psychological
well-being. This study has highlighted the two important human factors, i.e. selfcompassion
and resilience in the development of counsellors‘ psychological wellbeing.
Notwithstanding the limitations of this study, the current research has
provided invaluable theoretical, practical and research implications. Self-compassion
appeared to be a valid and influential construct in enhancing counsellors‘ resilience
and psychological well-being in Eastern setting. Integrating self-compassion and
resilience is of central importance in cultivating well-being among counsellors in
Malaysia.
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