Humility as a predictor of eudaimonic flourishing among adult clients: mediator effects for self-regulation
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2020-06-12
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Sandage, Steven
Crabtree, S.
Hall, E.
Jankowski, P.
Ruffing, E.
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S. Sandage, S. Crabtree, E. Hall, P. Jankowski, E. Ruffing. 2020. "Humility as a predictor of eudaimonic flourishing among adult clients: Mediator effects for self-regulation.." Society for Psychotherapy Research. Amherst, MA,
Abstract
The scientific literature on humility has grown rapidly over the past decade with hundreds of studies now available, yet very few studies have investigated humility in clinical settings. Some clinicians might question the relevance of humility to key mental health and well being outcomes for clients, and there have been some discrepant findings on humi lity and well being in non clinical settings. The present cross sectional study tested an emotion regulation model of humility and well being drawing on attachment and family systems theories and research in positive psychology in a sample of Adult outpati ent clients (N=147) at a community mental health clinic in the United States. Dependent variables included: (a) Eudaimonic well being or flourishing (Mental Health Continuum Short Form; Lamers et al., 2011), (b) life satisfaction problems (Treatment Out come Package/TOP; Krauss et al., 2005), (c) work functioning problems (TOP), and (d) general health (TOP). Humility was operationalized using the General Humility Scale (Hill et al., 2015), a multi dimensional measure previously used in the same clinical c ontext (Paine et al., 2018). Results found humility was significantly related to each outcome in predicted directions with mediator effects for emotion regulation. Findings are discussed in terms of future research (particularly further validation of clinical measures of virtue and flourishing) and clinical practice.