en رويكرد شناختي رفتاري Cognitive behavioral پژوهشي Original Research Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Objective:</strong> This study aimed to investigate the role of social safeness and self-compassion, as two essential components of Gilbert&rsquo;s theory, in mental health. In this regard and based on theoretical foundations, the mediation model of the relationship between social safeness and mental health problems was examined through self-compassion as a mediator.<br> <strong>Methods:</strong> A total of 344 students from the University of Bojnord, Bojnord City, Iran, in the 2019-2020 academic year were recruited using the cluster sampling method. They were responded to the social safeness and pleasure scale, self-compassion scale (short form), and depression, anxiety, and stress scale. The obtained data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).<br> <strong>Results: </strong>The mediation model showed a good fit (&chi;2&frasl;df: 1.77; RMSEA: 0.043; CFI: 0.99; GFI: 0.98; AGFI: 0.96; NFI: 0.98; TLI: 0.98). Beta coefficients indicate significant direct effect of social safeness on self-compassion (Beta=0.57; P&le;0.001), significant direct effect of self-compassion on mental health problems (Beta=-0.75; P&le;0.001), as well as a significant indirect effect of social safeness on mental health problems (Beta=-0.42; P&le;0.001).&nbsp;<br> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Social safeness affects mental health problems (depression, anxiety, and stress) through self-compassion as a mediator. A high sense of social safeness protects against depression, anxiety, and stress through increasing self-compassion. However, low social safeness increases vulnerability to depression, anxiety, and stress by reducing self-compassion.</div> Mental health, Depression, Anxiety, Emotion regulation 237 246 http://jpcp.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-768-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Khadije Alavi kh.alavi@ub.ac.ir 0000-0002-8199-3627 Yes Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran.