Role of Self-Compassion in Young Student's Risky Behaviors

The aim of this study is to determine the role of self-compassion in students’ risky behaviors. This research is a descriptive co-relational study. 273 students (170 females and 103 males) participated in the study by multi stage cluster sampling method and responded to self-compassion questionnaire (Neff, 2009) and risk behaviors questionnaire (National College Health Risk Behavior Survey, 2007). Date were analyzed using T Test, Pearson correlation and regression analysis The results showed that the self-compassion has a significant and negative relation with risky behaviors (p=0.00) and judgment about self (As one of the three dimensions of self-compassion) has the highest regression coefficient in reducing risky behaviors. Generally Components of self-compassion explain 12/7 of the Variance in risk behaviors.
Based on results, we conclude that Consistent with other studies, student’s self-compassion as one of the factors of increasing mental health leads to reducing in risky behaviors, so this can be important to prevent high-risk behaviors.