Hi, I'm doing correlation test for depression and self-compassion, also depression and self-compassion's six components (self-kindness (+), self-judgment (-), common humanity (+), isolation (-), mindfulness (+), over-identification (-)). I run Spearman correlation test because the data not normally distributed. I use total score for depression and self-compassion. I also did reversed score for the negative components of self-components (self-judgment, isolation, over-identification).

My result is depression has a negative correlation with self-compassion, by this mean when someone has high depression, you will have low self-compassion.

But when I look at each components correlation result, all the components also has negative correlation, if I go by that result, if you have high level of depression, you will have low self-kindness but also high self-judgment.

I found it confusing to interpret because shouldn’t it be: if you have high depression, you will have low self-kindness, high self-judgment? Please someone enlighten me

If someone out there would help me, I will gladly accept that.

I attached my result here. Thank you very much