Relationship between childhood abuse and self-compassion with stress-coping strategies in women

Child abuse is behavior in which child faces physical, sexual, negligence and emotional abuses. This study rsquo;s aimed to investigate relationship between childhood abuse and selfcompassion with stresscoping strategies among women. Statistical population included all of married women in Tehran. The sample contains 182 participants who were selected by convenience sampling method entertainment centers, shopping centers, health centers and cultural centers. The data were collected by Mohammad Khani rsquo;s selfreport questionnaire, Neff s selfcompassion scale and coping strategies of Blings and Mous. The findings showed that emotional abuse with mean of 23.54 was the hisgest and physical abuse with mean of 7.87 was the lowest one. Results showed that there is negative relationship between the abuse rsquo;s total score and selfcompassion rsquo;s total score. All physical abuse s subscales, emotional abuse and negligence can predict the selfcompassion except sexual abuse. Also none of the abuse subscales can predict the stresscoping methods. The results have shown that the experience of abuse in childhood injury, can be affected him in adulthood on selfconcept and coping responces to stress and problems.