Self-Compassion and Social Anxiety: A Scoping Review

Social anxiety has been linked with low trait self-compassion and high levels of self-criticism. Thus, there is growing interest in enhancing self-compassion to reduce social anxiety. However, a gap exists in reviewing the strength of the association between self-compassion and social anxiety and the efficacy of self-compassion-based interventions and inductions among socially anxious individuals. The present scoping review systematically searched six databases to map research on the relationship between self-compassion and social anxiety, identify the types and efficacy of self-compassion interventions and inductions (ranging from single-session experimental inductions to multi-session therapies, in which cultivating self-compassion comprised > 50 https://osf.io/9j6cw ).