About the Authors

Marcela Matos

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

marcela.matos@fpce.uc.pt

Affiliation University of Coimbra, Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (CINEICC), Coimbra, Portugal

Kirsten McEwan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Compassion Research and Training, College of Health, Psychology and Social Care, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom

Martin Kanovský

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Institute of Social Anthropology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Júlia Halamová

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Institute of Applied Psychology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Stanley R. Steindl

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Compassionate Mind Research Group, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Nuno Ferreira

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social Sciences, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Mariana Linharelhos

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation University of Coimbra, Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (CINEICC), Coimbra, Portugal

Daniel Rijo

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation University of Coimbra, Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (CINEICC), Coimbra, Portugal

Kenichi Asano

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Psychological Counseling, Faculty of Psychology, Mejiro University, Tokyo, Japan

Sara P. Vilas

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Behavior, Emotions, and Health Research Group, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Margarita G. Márquez

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Behavior, Emotions, and Health Research Group, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Sónia Gregório

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliations University of Coimbra, Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (CINEICC), Coimbra, Portugal, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Behavior, Emotions, and Health Research Group, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Gonzalo Brito-Pons

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Paola Lucena-Santos

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation University of Coimbra, Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention (CINEICC), Coimbra, Portugal

Margareth da Silva Oliveira

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Evaluation and Treatment in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies—Research Group (GAAPCC), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Erika Leonardo de Souza

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Conectta: Mindfulness & Compassion, São Paulo, Brazil

Lorena Llobenes

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Motivación Compasiva, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Natali Gumiy

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Motivación Compasiva, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Maria Ileana Costa

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Motivación Compasiva, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Noor Habib

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Neuroscience Department, Section of Psychiatry and Psychology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Reham Hakem

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Neuroscience Department, Section of Psychiatry and Psychology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Hussain Khrad

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Neuroscience Department, Section of Psychiatry and Psychology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Ahmad Alzahrani

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Neuroscience Department, Section of Psychiatry and Psychology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Simone Cheli

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation School of Human Health Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Nicola Petrocchi

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Economics and Social Sciences, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy

Elli Tholouli

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Center for Qualitative Research in Psychology and Psychosocial Well-being, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Philia Issari

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Center for Qualitative Research in Psychology and Psychosocial Well-being, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Gregoris Simos

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Educational and Social Policy, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

Vibeke Lunding-Gregersen

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Mindwork Psycological Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ask Elklit

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Russell Kolts

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, United States of America

Allison C. Kelly

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Catherine Bortolon

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Laboratoire Inter-universitaire de Psychologie: Personnalité, Cognition et Changement Social, Grenoble Alpes University, Grenoble, France, Centre Hospitalier Alpes Isère, C3R - Réhabilitation psychosociale et remédiation cognitive, Grenoble, France

Pascal Delamillieure

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliations CHU de Caen, Service de Psychiatrie Adulte, Caen, France, UNICAEN, ISTS, GIP Cyceron, University of Normandy, Caen, France

Marine Paucsik

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Laboratoire Inter-universitaire de Psychologie: Personnalité, Cognition et Changement Social, Grenoble Alpes University, Grenoble, France

Julia E. Wahl

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliations The Mind Institute Poland, Warsaw, Poland, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw & Poznań, Poland

Mariusz Zieba

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw & Poznań, Poland

Mateusz Zatorski

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw & Poznań, Poland

Tomasz Komendziński

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Department of Cognitive Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torún, Poland, Neurocognitive Laboratory, Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torún, Poland

Shuge Zhang

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation School of Human Sciences, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom

Jaskaran Basran

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Centre for Compassion Research and Training, College of Health, Psychology and Social Care, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom

Antonios Kagialis

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Social Sciences, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

James Kirby

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Compassionate Mind Research Group, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Paul Gilbert

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Compassion Research and Training, College of Health, Psychology and Social Care, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.