Morley, Richard H.Terranova, Victoria A.Cunningham, Shannon N.Vaughn, Tyler2019-12-162019-12-162016-01Morley, R., Terranova, V., Cunningham, S., & Vaughn, T. (2016). The role that self-compassion and self-control play in hostility provoked from a negative life event. International Journal of Indian Psychology, 3(2), pp. 125-141.2348-5396https://hdl.handle.net/10877/9085The main focus of this study is to investigate the degree to which self-compassion and self-control buffer against hostility provoked by a negative life experience. To accomplish this inquiry pre and posttest state hostility measures were taken from sixty-six students displaying an increased negative affect following a statistics test. Repeat measures MANOVA revealed that the post measure increase in state hostility was significance (p>.05). Moreover, there was a significant interaction between self-compassion and self-control. Upon inspection of the group difference, participants with low self-compassion and low self-control score showed a significant increase on compared to pre-test scores or posttest scores compared to every other group. Correlational analysis revealed that while both variables were associated with pre and post-test measures of state hostility, Self-compassion was demonstrated to have a larger correlation than self-control. Moreover, the results, study limitations, and implications were discussed.Text17 pages1 file (.pdf)enself-controlmindfulnessaggressionviolencehostilitycriminalityself-compassionSocial WorkArticle© I R Morley, V Terranova, S Cunningham, T Vaughn.https://doi.org/10.25215/0302.187This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.