The Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Self-Compassion

By K. Neff. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Rumination and worry as mediators of the relationship between self-compassion and depression and anxiety (2010, background): “SCS, self-compassion scale; BDI, beck depression inventory; STAI-T, state-trait anxiety inventory, trait version; RRS, ruminative response scale; PSWQ, Penn state worry questionnaire.”
Mindfulness, self-compassion, and happiness in non-meditators: A theoretical and empirical examination (2011, background): “Neff (2003) created a self-report measure of self-compassion that taps into six qualities, three positive (self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness) and three negative (self-judgment, isolation, and over-identification).”
Self-Compassion When Coping With Venture Obstacles: Loving-Kindness Meditation and Entrepreneurial Fear of Failure (2019, methodology): “…awareness of negative thoughts and feelings; (2) common humanity—the acknowledgment that your subjective experiences are part of the larger human condition; and (3) self- kindness—treating oneself with understanding and forgiveness in the face of adversity (Neff, 2003; Neff & Dahm, 2015).”
Self-Compassion and Psychological Well-being (2017, methodology): “…of selfcompassion has been associated with feelings of autonomy, competence, relatedness, and selfdetermination (Magnus, Kowalski, & McHugh, 2010; Neff, 2003a), suggesting that selfcompassion helps meet the basic psychological needs that Ryan and Deci (2001) argue are fundamental to eudaimonic…”
Teaching Self-Care to Caregivers: Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on the Mental Health of Therapists in Training (2007, methodology): “" Finally, the 26-item Self-Compassion Scale (Neff, 2003; sample ␣ ϭ .94) was used to measure self-compassion based on an aggregate of responses on 3 subscales: self-kindness versus self-judgment, common humanity versus isolation, and mindfulness versus overidentification .”
The Mediating Role of Self‐compassion in Student Psychological Health (2016, methodology): “Compassion involves being receptive to and affected by the suffering of others, such that one desires to alleviate their suffering (Neff, 2003b).”
Self-compassion versus global self-esteem: two different ways of relating to oneself. (2009, background): “The association between self-compassion , self-esteem, and narcissism has also been examined previously (Leary et al., 2007; Neff, 2003a), but we decided it was worth examining these links again in our Dutch sample to determine if findings could be replicated with non-Ameri- cans.”
Individual Differences in Self-Compassion: The Role of Attachment and Experiences of Parenting in Childhood (2015, methodology): “The measure consists of six subscales that can be summed to yield a more parsimonious total score that reflects a single higherorder factor (Neff, 2003a).”
Self-compassionate teachers are more autonomy supportive and structuring whereas self-derogating teachers are more controlling and chaotic: The mediating role of need satisfaction and burnout (2020, methodology): “…involves expressing one’s own true self, being authentic, being attentive to one’s inner states, a positive and kind attitude towards oneself, the perception of being as worthy as other people, and emotional balance deriving from mindfulness (e.g., Neff, 2003a; Neff, 2011; Neff et al., 2005).”
Self-Compassion Interventions and Psychosocial Outcomes: a Meta-Analysis of RCTs (2019, methodology): “The widespread use of the self-report 26-item selfcompassion scale (SCS; Neff 2003a) and a shorter 12-itemed version (SCS-s; Raes et al. 2011) has contributed to the unification of a growing body of research.”
How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective (2011, positive): “According to the definition proposed by Neff (2003a), self-compassion entails three components: self-kindness (being kind and understanding toward oneself in instances of perceived inadequacy or suffering rather than being harshly self-critical), common humanity (perceiving one’s experiences as…”
Self-Compassion Amongst Clients with Problematic Alcohol Use (2012, methodology): “One sample t-tests were used to examine the components of self-compassion for participants in this study with the norms for the general population (Neff, 2003a).”
The relationship between non-suicidal self-injury and suicidality (2016, methodology): “Proximal Risk Factor Measures The Psychache Scale (Holden, Mehta, Cunningham, & McLeod, 2001).”
The forest and the trees: Examining the association of self-compassion and its positive and negative components with psychological functioning (2018, positive): “The vast majority of research has measured the construct of self-compassion with the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS; Neff, 2003a).”