Pastoral ministry is a demanding and stressful vocation, and the empirical and anecdotal literature on ministry has often emphasized this negative outlook. More recent work, however, has shifted toward a more positive emphasis on personal characteristics that might help pastors be more resilient. The present study examined the interplay of identity demands, social support, and self-regard in accounting for both positive (positive affect and life satisfaction) and negative (negative affect and burnout) outcomes. Self-compassion, which was measured using the short form of Neff’s (2003) Self-Compassion Scale (SCS-SF), was herein reconceptualized as being comprised of two types of self-regard: self-compassion and self-criticism. Regression analyses with data collected from 200 United Methodist pastors indicated that social support and self-compassion (in descending order of importance) explained a significant proportion of the variance of the positive outcome, while self-criticism, social support, demand, and gender explained the negative.

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牧师事工中的自尊：联合卫理公会神职人员样本中的自我同情与自我批评

教牧事工是一项要求高且压力大的职业，关于事工的经验和轶事文献经常强调这种消极的观点。然而，最近的工作已经转向更积极地强调可能有助于牧师更有弹性的个人特征。本研究考察了身份需求、社会支持和自尊在解释积极（积极影响和生活满意度）和消极（消极影响和倦怠）结果方面的相互作用。自我同情是使用 Neff (2003) 自我同情量表 (SCS-SF) 的简写形式测量的，在此被重新定义为由两种类型的自我关注组成：自我同情和自我批评。