'I have high self-compassion': A face-valid single-item self-compassion scale for resource-limited research contexts.
| Title: | 'I have high self-compassion': A face-valid single-item self-compassion scale for resource-limited research contexts. |
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| Authors: | Zhang JW; Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA.; Howell RT; Department of Psychology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA.; Chen S; Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.; Goold AR; Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA.; Bilgin B; School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.; Chai WJ; Department of Neuroscience, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, Malaysia.; Ramis T; Department of Psychology, HELP University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.; Centre for American Education, Sunway University, Selangor, Malaysia. |
| Source: | Clinical psychology & psychotherapy [Clin Psychol Psychother] 2022 Jul; Vol. 29 (4), pp. 1463-1474. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Feb 05. |
| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Journal Info: | Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9416196 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1099-0879 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 10633995 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Clin Psychol Psychother Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Original Publication: Chichester, West Sussex, England : John Wiley & Sons, c1993- |
| MeSH Terms: | Empathy*; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Humans ; Psychometrics ; Reproducibility of Results ; Surveys and Questionnaires |
| Abstract: | The original 26-item Self-Compassion Scale (SCS; Neff, 2003) and 12-item Short-Form Self-Compassion Scale (SF-SCS; Raes et al., 2011) are scales commonly used in cross-sectional and longitudinal research to assess the global self-compassion construct and its six facets. We introduce the Single-Item Self-Compassion Scale (SISC; 'I have high self-compassion') to measure the global self-compassion construct in time-, space- and resource-limited contexts (e.g., daily diaries, experience sampling and nationally representative surveys). Additionally, the SISC will expand knowledge about self-compassion by providing researchers whose primary interest is not self-compassion with a convenient, face-valid option to measure self-compassion. Across 10 samples (four cross-sectional, four longitudinal and two 7-day daily diary; N = 2,477), we demonstrated that the SISC has acceptable psychometric properties. Specifically, the SISC was temporally consistent, correlated adequately with the SCS and SF-SCS, exhibited nearly identical correlational patterns when compared with the SCS and SF-SCS with a wide range of criterion measures (e.g., self-esteem, personality, affective and social functioning, mental health and demographic variables) and saved 12 min over a 7-day diary. Results replicated among students, community samples and across the United States, Turkey and Malaysia. Thus, we provide the field with an alternative measure of the global self-compassion construct that complements the SCS and SF-SCS.; (© 2022 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.) |
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| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: global self-compassion; reliability; single item; test construction; validity |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20220127 Date Completed: 20220818 Latest Revision: 20250728 |
| Update Code: | 20260130 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/cpp.2714 |
| PMID: | 35083797 |
| Database: | MEDLINE |
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