Articles
2024
Shaw, J., & Kelly, A. C. (2024). How exposure to personal distress with and without self-compassion affects distress tolerance: Results from a two-sample randomized trial. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-024-02312-x
2023
Waring, S. V., & Kelly, A. C. (2023). The whole is more than the sum of its parts: A qualitative investigation of body-dissatisfied college women's experiences of relational body image. Body Image, 46, 174-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.05.009
Geller, J., Fernandes, A., Kelly, A. C., Samson, L., & Srikameswaran, S. (2023). Collaborative care in eating disorders treatment: Exploring the role of clinician distress, self-compassion, and compassion for others. Journal of Eating Disorders, 11, article 57. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00741-y
Katan, A., & Kelly, A. C. (2023). A daily diary study of self-compassion and adaptive coping behaviours in women with symptoms of bulimia nervosa. Journal of Eating Disorders, 11, article 50. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00755-6
Matos, M., McEwan, K., Kanovsky, M., Halamova, J.,…Kelly, A. C.,…Gilbert, P. (2023). Improvements in compassion and fears of compassion throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: A multinational study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(3), article 1845. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20031845
2022
Waring, S. V., Sharpinskyi, K., & Kelly, A. C. (2022). Individual differences in relational body image: Within-person variability predicts maladaptive trait body image. Body Image, 43, 41-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.08.005
Geller, J. Samson, L., Maiolino, N., Iyar, M. M., Kelly, A. C., & Srikameswaran, S. (2022). Self-compassion and its barriers: Predicting outcomes from inpatient and residential eating disorders treatment. Journal of Eating Disorders, 10, article 114. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-022-00640-8
Miller, K. E., Kelly, A. C., & Kraus, G. E. (2022). Adaptive body image can be contagious: An examination of college women facing situational body image threats. Body Image, 42, 222-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.06.008
Matos, M., McEwan, K., Kanovsky, M., Halamova, J.,…Kelly, A. C.,…Gilbert, P. (2022). Compassion protects mental health and social safeness during the COVID-19 pandemic across 21 countries. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-021-01822-2
2021
Matos, M., McEwan, K., Kanovsky, M., Halamova, J.,…Kelly, A. C.,…Gilbert, P. (2021). The role of social connection on the experience of COVID-19 related post-traumatic growth and stress. PLOS ONE, 16(12): e0261384. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261384
Katan, A., & Kelly, A. C. (2021). A two-week daily diary study examining the association between daily self-compassion and symptoms of bulimia nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 54(8), 1438-1448. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23533
Matos, M., McEwan, K., Kanovsky, M., Halamova, J.,…Kelly, A. C.,…Gilbert, P. (2021). Fears of compassion magnify the harmful effects of threat of COVID-19 on mental health and social safeness across 21 countries. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2601
Kelly, A. C., Katan, A.; Sosa Hernandez, L., Nightingale, B., & Geller, J. (2021). Why would I want to be more self-compassionate? A qualitative study of the pros and cons to cultivating self-compassion in individuals with anorexia nervosa. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60, 99-115. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12275
2020
Geller, J., Kelly, A. C., Samson, L., Iyar, M. M., & Srikameswaran, S. (2020). The relation between two barriers to self‐compassion and clinical characteristics in individuals with eating disorders. European Eating Disorders Review, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.2764
Waring, S. V., & Kelly, A. C. (2020). Relational body image: Preliminary evidence that body image varies within a person from one specific relationship to another. Body Image, 34, 221-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.06.006
Dupasquier, J. R., Kelly, A. C., Waring, S. V., & Moscovitch, D. A. (2020). Self-compassionate college women report receiving more social support in the face of distress: Evidence from a daily diary study. Personality and Individual Differences, 154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.109680
Dupasquier, J. R., Kelly, A. C., Moscovitch, D. A., & Vidovic, V. (2020). Cultivating self-compassion promotes disclosure of experiences that threaten self-esteem. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 44, 108-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-019-10050-x
Kelly, A. C., Waring, S. V., & Dupasquier, J. R. (2020). Most women with anorexia nervosa report less eating pathology on days when they are more self-compassionate than usual. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 53, 133-137. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23185
2019
Ma, R., & Kelly, A. C. (2019). The fragility of perceived social rank following exercise in anorexia nervosa: an ecological momentary assessment study of shame and pride. Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 1-7. https://doi.org/0.1007/s40519-019-00797-3
Miller, K. E. & Kelly, A. C.(2019). Is self-compassion contagious? An examination of whether hearing a display of self-compassion impacts self-compassion in the listener. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000150
Geller, J., Iyar, M. M., Kelly, A. C., & Srikameswaran, S. (2019). Barriers to self-compassion in the eating disorders: The factor structure of the fear of self-compassion scale. Eating Behaviors, 35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2019.101334
Waring, S. V., & Kelly, A. C. (2019). Trait self-compassion predicts different responses to failure depending on the interpersonal context. Personality and Individual Differences, 143, 47-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.01.043
Miller, K.E., Kelly, A. C., & Stephen, E. (2019). Exposure to body focused and non-body focused others over a week: A preliminary investigation of their unique contributions to college women’s eating and body image. Body Image, 28, 48-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2018.12.003
2018
Kelly, A. C., & Waring, S. V. (2018). A feasibility study of a 2‐week self‐compassionate letter‐writing intervention for nontreatment seeking individuals with typical and atypical anorexia nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 51, 1005-1009. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22930
Vimalakanthan, K., Kelly, A. C., & Trac, S. (2018). From competition to compassion: A caregiving approach to intervening with appearance comparisons. Body Image, 25, 148-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2018.03.003
Dupasquier, J. R., Kelly, A. C., Moscovitch, D. A., & Vidovic, V. (2018). Practicing self-compassion weakens the relationship between fear of receiving compassion and the desire to conceal negative experiences from others. Mindfulness, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-017-0792-0
2017
Kelly, A. C., Wisniewski, L., Matin-Wagar, C., & Hoffman, E. (2017). Group-based compassion-focused therapy as an adjunct to outpatient treatment for eating disorders: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 24(2), 475–487. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2018
Hermanto, N., Zuroff, D. C., Kelly, A. C.,& Leybman, M. J. (2017). Receiving support, giving support, and self-reassurance: A daily diary test of social mentality theory. Personality and Individual Differences, 107, 37-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.11.013
2016
Kelly, A. C., Miller, K. E., & Stephen, E. (2016). The benefits of being self-compassionate on days when interactions with body-focused others are frequent. Body Image, 19, 195–203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2016.10.005
Kelly, A. C., & Tasca, G. A. (2016). Within-persons predictors of change during eating disorders treatment: An examination of self-compassion, self-criticism, shame, and eating disorder symptoms. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 49(7), 716-722. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22527
Hermanto, N., Zuroff, D. C., Kopala-Sibley, D. C., Kelly, A. C., Matos, M., Gilbert, P., & Koestner, R. (2016). Ability to receive compassion from others buffers the depressogenic effect of self-criticism: A cross-cultural multi-study analysis. Personality and Individual Differences, 98, 324-332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.04.055
Kelly, A. C., & Stephen, E. (2016). A daily diary study of self-compassion, body image, and eating behavior in female college students. Body Image, 17, 152-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2016.03.006
Zuroff, D. C., Shahar, G., Blatt, S. J., Kelly, A. C., & Leybman, M. J. (2016). Predictors and moderators of between-therapist and within-therapist differences in depressed outpatients' experiences of the Rogerian conditions. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 63(2), 162-172. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000139
Kelly, A. C., & Dupasquier, J. R. (2016). Social safeness mediates the relationship between recalled parental warmth and the capacity for self-compassion and receiving compassion. Personality and Individual Differences, 89, 157-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.10.017
Zuroff, D. C., Sadikaj, G., Kelly, A. C., & Leybman, M. J. (2016). Conceptualizing and measuring self-criticism as both a personality trait and a personality state. Journal of Personality Assessment, 98(1), 14-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2015.1044604
2015
Kelly, A. C., & Carter, J. C. (2015). Self-compassion training for binge eating disorder: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Psychology & Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Practice, 88(3), 285-303. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12044
Carter, J. C., & Kelly, A. C. (2015). Autonomous and controlled motivation for eating disorders treatment: Baseline predictors and relationship to treatment outcome. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 54(1), 76-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12062
2014
Kelly, A. C., Vimalakanthan, K., & Miller, K. E. (2014). Self-compassion moderates the relationship between body mass index and both eating disorder pathology and body image flexibility. Body Image, 11(4), 446-453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2014.07.005
Kelly, A. C., Vimalakanthan, K., & Carter, J. C. (2014). Understanding the roles of self-esteem, self-compassion, and fear of self-compassion in eating disorder pathology: An examination of female students and eating disorder patients. Eating Behaviors, 15(3), 388-391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2014.04.008
Kelly, A. C., & Carter, J. C. (2014). Eating disorder subtypes differ in their rates of psychosocial improvement over treatment. Journal of Eating Disorders, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.1186/2050-2974-2-2
Kelly, A. C., Carter, J. C., & Borairi, S. (2014). Are improvements in shame and self-compassion early in eating disorders treatment associated with better patient outcomes?International Journal of Eating Disorders, 47(1), 54–64. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22196
2013
Kelly, A. C., Carter, J. C., Zuroff, D. C., & Borairi, S. (2013). Self-compassion and fear of self-compassion interact to predict response to eating disorders treatment: A preliminary investigation. Psychotherapy Research, 23(3), 252-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2012.717310
Kelly, A. C., & Carter, J. C. (2013). Why self-critical patients present with more severe eating disorder pathology: The mediating role of shame. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 52(2), 148–161. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12006
2012
Kelly, A. C., Zuroff, D. C., Leybman, M. J., & Gilbert, P. (2012). Social safeness, received social support, and maladjustment: Testing a tripartite model of affect regulation. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 36(6), 815-826. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-011-9432-5
Carter, J. C., Kelly, A. C. & Norwood, S. J. (2012). Interpersonal problems in Anorexia Nervosa: Social inhibition as defining and detrimental. Personality and Individual Differences, 53(3), 169-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.02.020
2011
Kelly, A. C., Zuroff, D. C., Leybman, M. J., & Martin, A. (2011). Leaders’ and followers’ social rank styles interact to predict small group performance. Social, Behaviour, and Personality Journal, 39(7), 963-978. https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp:2011.39.7.963
Leybman, M. J., Zuroff, D. C., Fournier, M. A., Kelly, A. C., & Martin, A. (2011). Social Exchange Styles: Measurement, validation, and application. European Journal of Personality, 25(3), 198-210. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.785
2010
Kelly, A. C., Zuroff, D. C., Foa, C. L., & Gilbert, P. (2010). Who benefits from training in self-compassionate self-regulation? A study of smoking reduction. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 29(7), 727-755. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2010.29.7.727
Zuroff, D. C., Kelly, A. C., Leybman, M. J., Blatt, S. J., & Wampold, B. (2010). Between- and within-therapists variability in the therapeutic relationship: Independent predictors of change in adjustment and vulnerability. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 66(7), 681-697. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.20683
2009
Kelly, A. C., Zuroff, D. C., & Shapira, L. B. (2009). Soothing oneself and resisting self-attacks: The treatment of two intrapersonal deficits in depression vulnerability. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 33(3), 301-313. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-008-9202-1
2008
Kelly, A. C., Zuroff, D. C., Leybman, M. J., Martin, E. A., & Koestner, R. (2008). Satisfied groups and satisfied members: Untangling the between- and within-groups effects of need satisfaction. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38(7), 1805-1826. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00370.x
Book Chapters
Carter, J. C., Bojman, K., Kelly, A. C. (2018). Compassion-focused therapies in severe obesity. In S. Cassin, R. Hawa, & S. Sockalingam (eds.). Psychological Care in Severe Obesity: A Practical Approach. Cambridge University Press.
Kelly, A. C.,Miller, K. E., Vimalakanthan, K., Dupasquier, J. R., & Waring, S. (2018). Compassion-based interventions for body image. In T. Tylka & N. Piran (eds.). Handbook of Positive Body Image: Constructs, Protective Factors, and Interventions. Oxford University Press.
Kelly, A. C., & Carter, J. C. (2016). Compassion-focused therapy for eating disorders. In T. Wade (ed.) Encyclopedia of Feeding and Eating Disorders. Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-087-2_167-1
Kelly, A. C., & Zuroff, D. C. (2014). Treating perfectionism. In L. Grossman, & S. Walfish (eds.)Translating Psychological Research into Practice: A Desk Reference for Practicing Mental Health Professionals. New York: Springer Books.