Examining the factor structure of the Self-Compassion Scale in 20 diverse samples: Support for use of a total score and six subscale scores.

D. Neff, Kristin; Tóth‐Király, István; M. Yarnell, Lisa; Arimitsu, Kohki; Castilho, Paula; Ghorbani, Nima; Xiaoxia Guo, Hailan; K. Hirsch, Jameson; Hupfeld, Jörg; Simón Hutz, Claudio; Kotsou, Ilios; Kyeong Lee, Woo; Montero‐Marín, Jesús; M. Sirois, Fuschia; Karine de Souza, Luciana; Lillebostad Svendsen, Julie; B. Wilkinson, Ross; Mantzios, Michail

doi:10.1037/pas0000629

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Examining the factor structure of the Self-Compassion Scale in 20 diverse samples: Support for use of a total score and six subscale scores.

Published in Psychological Assessment • Aug 20, 2018

Authors:

Kristin D. Neff

István Tóth‐Király

Lisa M. Yarnell

Abstract

This study examined the factor structure of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) using secondary data drawn from 20 samples (N = 11,685)-7 English and 13 non-English-including 10 community, 6 student, 1 mixed community/student, 1 meditator, and 2 clinical samples. Self-compassion is theorized to represen...

Subject

Psychology

Self-compassion

Confirmatory factor analysis

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