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Understanding self-compassion in adolescents: Validation study of the Self-Compassion Scale

Bibliographic Details
Summary:	This questionnaire is a 26 items and six subscales: Self-Kindness; Self-Judgement; Common Humanity; Isolation; Mindfulness; Over-Identification. Respondents were instructed with the sentence "how I typically act towards myself in difficult times" and were asked to answer each item according to a 5-point scale (1 = Almost Never; 5 = Almost Always). Subscale scores are computed by calculating the mean of subscale item responses. To compute the total score of SCS, the Self-Kindness, Common Humanity, and Mindfulness are summed with reverse scores of the Self-Judgement, Isolation, and Over-identification subscales. Higher scores indicate greater self-compassion.
Subject:	Measurement invariance Self-compassion Adolescents Adolescence SCS Confirmatory factor analysis Assessment
Year:	2018
Country:	Portugal
Document type:	journal article
Access type:	Open
Associated institution:	Repositório Aberto do Instituto Superior Miguel Torga, Repositório ISMT, Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra
Language:	English
Origin:	Repositório Aberto do Instituto Superior Miguel Torga

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Summary:	This questionnaire is a 26 items and six subscales: Self-Kindness; Self-Judgement; Common Humanity; Isolation; Mindfulness; Over-Identification. Respondents were instructed with the sentence "how I typically act towards myself in difficult times" and were asked to answer each item according to a 5-point scale (1 = Almost Never; 5 = Almost Always). Subscale scores are computed by calculating the mean of subscale item responses. To compute the total score of SCS, the Self-Kindness, Common Humanity, and Mindfulness are summed with reverse scores of the Self-Judgement, Isolation, and Over-identification subscales. Higher scores indicate greater self-compassion.