Pozitif Psikolojide Güncel Bir Kavram: Merhamet Doyumu

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.