Measuring the Immeasurables: Development and Initial Validation of the Self-Other Four Immeasurables (SOFI) Scale Based on Buddhist Teachings on Loving Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity

By S. Kraus, S. Sears. 2009

178 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. L. Carlson
2. Stefan G. Hofmann
3. D. Hinton
4. M. Speca
5. Paul Grossman
6. Kathryn A. Birnie
7. Ruth A. Baer
8. Kirk Warren Brown

In Social Psychology

1. L. Carlson
2. Paul Grossman
3. Kathryn A. Birnie
4. Stefan G. Hofmann
5. D. Hinton
6. M. Speca
7. A. Chiesa
8. Terry Hyland

Citations in the corpus

• Loving-Kindness and Compassion Meditation: Potential for Psychological Interventions (2011, background): “In Buddhist psychology, these four qualities are seen as particularly important for human development, especially for parents (Kraus & Sears, 2009).”
• Cognitive-Based Compassion Training: A Promising Prevention Strategy for At-Risk Adolescents (2013, unknown): “(Kraus and Sears 2009)”
• Exploring self‐compassion and empathy in the context of mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) (2010, background): “More recent research directly assessing relationships between self-compassion and compassion towards others, rather than empathy, has shown links using measures more specifi cally targeted at compassion (Crocker & Canevello, 2008; Kraus & Sears, 2009).”