Study On Relationship Among Mindfulness,Self-acceptance And Empathy

This study develops the Mindfulness Scale (MS) for Fuzhou undergraduates, investigates the level of their mindfulness and the relation among mindfulness, self-acceptance and empathy, as to improve their self-acceptance and empathy and the development of good interpersonal relationship.Results indicate that:(1) the MS has good consistency reliability and a factor structure consistent with the theory.(2)The mindfulness of Fuzhou college students locates in medium level, self-acceptance and empathy a little higher than medium level.(3)There is significant difference among sex in the mindfulness and its "as what is" dimension. That is, the male has the higher level of seeing it as it is than the female.(4)There is significant differences among major in the self-acceptance and empathy. That is, the students on science feel much more self-acceptance and empathy than those on humanity.(5) The mindfulness and "as what is" dimension is positively associated to self-acceptance, the mindfulness and "attention" dimension is negatively related to empathy.(6)Mindfulness is expected to predict the level of empathy directly. Besides, it is also expected to predict empathy by way of self-acceptance.