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Self-Compassion and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of Greek College Students

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(6), 4890; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064890
by Eirini Karakasidou *, Georgia Raftopoulou, Anna Papadimitriou and Anastassios Stalikas
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2:
Sharon Jalene
Reviewer 3:
Susana Henriques
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(6), 4890; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064890
Submission received: 9 January 2023 / Revised: 6 March 2023 / Accepted: 8 March 2023 / Published: 10 March 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors,

Your manuscript about Self-compassion and well-being during the pandemic of COVID – 19 was about the effect of self-compassion on  

depression, anxiety, stress, life satisfaction, and subjective happiness, and the moderator role of Isolation needs to be improved.

The introduction needs to be improved. The literature review does not support your main question as well.

The literature review needs to reorganize. Using abbreviations has been recommended to summarize it.

The sample size is not adequate for this type of research. 

Gender imbalance in the sample (a convenient sample) is not acceptable.

The analysis ignored gender as a variable. 

The manuscript needs literacy editing. 

Author Response

Please find attached our response.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report


Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Please find attached our response.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 3 Report

Authors propose to analyse self-compassion and well being during COVID-19 pandemic. This is a study already conducted with other groups, but not with college students.

It is important to clarify that due to pandemic crisis one important measure to control the virus spread was physical isolation, not social isolation. Social isolation is not bearable for us, humans as social beings.

Results point that “self-compassion may serve as a protective factor against negative mental health” which follows the expected trend… It looks like there are no novelty with this study, little knowledge is added.

Author Response

Attached please find my response to your comments.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear authors, 

The manuscript needs minor revision for language

Author Response

Thank you very much for your comments!

The article has been once again proofread using the professional version of Grammarly. 

Reviewer 3 Report

While I acknowledge the effort of the authors in reviewing the manuscript, I stand by my opinion regarding the aspects pointed out as weaknesses. Therefore, I maintain the decision to reject the article for publication in ijerph.

Author Response

Thank you very much for your comments.

I have made the necessary changes, and I hope they meet your expectations.

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