Self-compassion, automatic thoughts, and mental pain in depression: Mediating effects and clinical implications

Table 5 Mediation analysis of automatic thoughts in the relationship between self-compassion and mental pain in depressed patients

Effect	Path	Unstandardized coefficient	SE	t	P value	95%CI
Direct effect	Self-compassion to mental pain	-0.218	0.032	-4.531	< 0.001	-0.282 to -0.154
Indirect effect	Self-compassion to automatic thoughts	-0.412	0.051	-8.073	< 0.001	-0.515 to -0.309
	Automatic thoughts to mental pain	0.629	0.052	12.089	< 0.001	0.527-0.732
Total effect	Self-compassion to mental pain	-0.473	0.050	-9.461	< 0.001	-0.572 to -0.375