Pozitif Psikolojide Güncel Bir Kavram: Merhamet Doyumu

Year 2021, Volume: 13 Issue: 4, 668 - 684, 25.12.2021

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https://doi.org/10.18863/pgy.852636

Cited By: 4

Abstract

Merhamet, bireyin kendi yaşadığı ya da başkasının çektiği acıların ve zorlukların farkında olup bu acıları ve zorlukları hafifletmek amacıyla eyleme geçmesidir. Son yıllarda merhametin eğitim ve sağlık alanlarının yanı sıra pozitif psikoloji alanında da incelendiği görülmektedir. Merhametle ilgili alanyazında ele alınan kavramlardan biri de merhamet doyumudur. Merhamet doyumu, kişinin başkasına veya diğer bir canlıya yardım ederken, onunla ilgilenirken veya ona bakım sunarken elde ettiği olumlu duyguların tümüdür. Bu derleme çalışmasında merhamet doyumu kavramının Türkçe alanyazına dahil edilmesi ve merhamet doyumuna ilişkin farkındalık kazandırılması amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaç çerçevesinde yurt dışı alanyazın taranmış ve çeşitli araştırmalar incelenmiştir. Bu araştırmalara dayalı olarak, merhamet doyumunun tanımı yapılmıştır. Merhamet doyumunun kişiden kişiye değişebileceği ve zaman zaman insanların merhamet doyumlarının azalabileceği belirtilmiştir. Merhamet doyumunun faydalarından ve merhamet doyumu yüksek olan kişilerin özelliklerinden bahsedilmiştir. Ayrıca merhamet doyumunun artırılabilmesi için önerilen uygulamalara değinilmiştir. Merhamet doyumunun kavramsal modeli sunulmuş ve merhamet doyumunun ölçülmesine yönelik yapılan ölçek çalışmalarına yer verilmiştir. Sonuç kısmında ise çalışmanın genel hatları özetlenmiş ve merhamet doyumu ile ilgili birtakım öneriler sunulmuştur.

Keywords

pozitif psikoloji, merhamet, merhamet doyumu

A Current Concept in Positive Psychology: Compassion Satisfaction

Abstract

Compassion means that an individual recognizes suffering and difficulties experienced by own and other people, and takes action to alleviate them. In recent years, compassion has been examined in the field of positive psychology as well as education and health. Compassion satisfaction is one of the concepts discussed in the literature as related to compassion. Compassion satisfaction is positive emotions that a person feels while helping or caring for someone else or other living things. In this review study, it is aimed to include the concept of compassion satisfaction in Turkish literature and to raise awareness of compassion satisfaction. For this purpose, the foreign literature was reviewed and several studies were examined. Based on them, compassion satisfaction was defined. Also, it was stated that compassion satisfaction might differ from person to person and people’s compassion satisfaction might sometimes decrease. The benefits of compassionate satisfaction and the characteristics of people with high compassion satisfaction were discussed. Moreover, practices recommended to increase compassion satisfaction were mentioned. The conceptual model of compassion satisfaction was presented and the scales about compassion satisfaction were explained. In conclusion part, the general lines of the study were summarized and some suggestions about compassion satisfaction were offered.

Keywords

Positive psychology, compassion, compassion satisfaction

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