"comfort oneself" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when someone is dealing with a challenging situation and is trying to soothe their feelings. For example: "In an effort to cope with the disappointment, she tried to comfort herself by going for a walk in the park."
Participation context also impacted student responses on the comfort being oneself scale, but this impact was moderated by gender and race/ethnicity/nationality.
Relative biology competency and participation context were the only main effects that significantly predicted student responses on the comfort being oneself factor (Supplemental Material Table 12).
Thus, students who were two SDs below the mean biology competency reported a level of comfort being oneself that was half of an SD lower than the average comfort in the class.
No matter whether they were consuming for themselves, buying gifts for friends or going on holiday with family members, most interviewees were concerned with pleasure and comfort of oneself or other people, rather than an expressive motive like image management or wealth announcement.
Overall, students seem to be less anxious in small peer-group discussions as evidenced by the responses for both the comfort being oneself and social comparison concern factors.
Overall, participation in front of the whole class caused male students to report a 2.3 point decrease in comfort being oneself relative to small-group work (p < 0.001; Figure 3A); this reduction was more than an SD on the comfort being oneself factor.
There was also some evidence that Barrier 2 might explain some of the role differences: international students reported higher anxiety than white American students in peer discussions for comfort being oneself, one of the two measures of anxiety.
To identify the subset of student-level variables that predicted a student's response to these two factors (comfort being oneself and social comparison concern) in peer and whole-class discussions, we used model selection paired with a linear mixed-effects model.
These questions sorted onto two factors: comfort being oneself (a measure of whether students felt they could be imperfect in their peer discussion group without negative effects) and social comparison concern (concern about one's abilities relative to one's groupmates' abilities).
Perhaps there is some comfort in convincing oneself that you aren't an oppressed person.
