Gentle voices within harsh environments. A longitudinal study focused on childhood adversity, self-compassion, depression and anxiety

Childhood adversity (CA) is the most important environmental risk factor for depression and anxiety. Still, protective factors may have important implications for these relationships. Supporting this view, self-compassion has been recently singled out, but direct support for its mediating role in these relationships is surprisingly scant and mostly cross-sectional. Thus, we conducted a short-term longitudinal study to (1) investigate associations between these variables and (2) test the mediatin