Appearance anxiety and social anxiety: A mediated model of self-compassion

• Main Authors: Jie Gao (Author), Yi Feng (Author), Shicun Xu (Author), Amanda Wilson (Author), Hui Li (Author), Xiaofeng Wang (Author), Xi Sun (Author), Yuanyuan Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundPrevious studies have focused on the comorbidity of appearance anxiety and social anxiety, but few studies have focused on the protective role of self-compassion as underlying this mechanism, in young people like University students. With the increase of prevalence of appearance anxiety an...