Self-compassion, mental health and work ethics: mediating role of self-compassion in the correlation between work stress and mental health

This study examines the relationship between self-compassion, mental health and work ethics and the mediational role of self-compassion in relation to work stress and mental health. 114 employees of the Hyper-Star were recruited via convenience sampling and responded to the scales of Self-Compassion (SC), Anxiety-Depression (AD), Self-esteem (SE), Work ethics (WE) and Perceived Stress (PS). Data was analyzed by Pearson Correlation Coefficient and path analysis. According to the results, perceived stress has a direct relationship with anxiety and depression and a reverse correlation with work ethics, life satisfaction and self-esteem. Despite the high and meaningful correlation of self-compassion with both mental health and perceived stress in isolation, self-compassion does not have any mediational roles with these factors. After considering cultural relationships, according to French management system and employees of Iranian nationals, it can be concluded that self-compassion variable has a lack of consistency with Iranian culture and cannot play a role in terms of Work ethics. This clarifies the taking effect of self-compassion from culture and inconsistency of the Persian culture on self-compassion.