<p>Characteristics of participants.</p>

<div> <p>Objective</p><p>This study examined the associations of self-compassion and self-efficacy with geriatric pain, postural awareness, health-promoting lifestyle behaviors, and quality of life in community-dwelling older adults in Turkey.</p> <p>Methods</p><p>In this cross-sectional study, 280 individuals were screened and 179 adults aged ≥65 years were included in the final analyses. Participants completed validated instruments including the Geriatric Pain Measure, Self-Compassion Scale, Self-Efficacy Scale, Postural Awareness Scale, Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile (HPLP), and quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF).</p> <p>Results</p><p>Self-efficacy emerged as the most consistent predictor across outcomes.

In the hierarchical model predicting quality of life, the final model explained 61.4% of the variance (R² = 0.614); self-efficacy (β = 0.340) was a positive predictor and geriatric pain (β=−0.346) a negative predictor, with health responsibility (β = 0.328) and interpersonal support (β = 0.181) also contributing (all p < 0.05). In the hierarchical models predicting HPLP subdimensions and the total score, the final models explained 21–40% of the variance (R² = 0.21–0.40); self-efficacy was a positive predictor across all subdimensions and the total score, self-compassion was the strongest predictor of nutrition (β = 0.436), and postural awareness was the strongest predictor of stress management (β = 0.300), whereas geriatric pain negatively predicted several domains.