The Self-Compassion Scale is a Valid and Theoretically Coherent Measure of Self-Compassion

By K. Neff. 2016

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. K. Neff
2. C. Germer
3. Paul Gilbert
4. Nicola Petrocchi
5. Juliana G. Breines
6. Marissa C. Knox
7. Y. Kou
8. Ying Yang

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. K. Neff
2. C. Germer
3. Paul Gilbert
4. Juliana G. Breines
5. Nicola Petrocchi
6. M. Matos
7. Y. Kou
8. Ying Yang

Citations in the corpus

• The Development and Validation of the State Self-Compassion Scale (Long- and Short Form) (2020, background): “This same pattern has also been observed after participation in anMSC course (Neff 2016) and other interventions (Ferrari et al. 2019).”
• Effectiveness of Self-Compassion Related Therapies: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2018, neutral): “Muris and Petrocchi (2017) found that the negative items were more strongly related to psychopathology than the positive items, and Neff (2016) found general trends for improvements in the negative subscales to predict reduced psychopathology and for the positive subscales to predict increased…”
• The development of compassionate engagement and action scales for self and others (2017, background): “Low scores, indicating low self-compassion, are highly correlated with experiences of paranoia, shame and self-criticism [88]; post traumatic stress disorder [60]; depression [95] and mental health problems in general [15, 83, 97].”
• Don't be so hard on yourself! Changes in self-compassion during the first year of university are associated with changes in well-being (2017, methodology): “Although, we tested a model that is consistent with theory and empirical evidence (Deci & Ryan, 2000, 2011; Neff, 2015; Ng et al., 2012; Zessin, Dickhäuser, & Garbade, 2015), future research with more time points is needed to disentangle the potentially mutually reinforcing relationship between…”
• Protection as the Mirror Image of Psychopathology: Further Critical Notes on the Self-Compassion Scale (2016, methodology): “When construing the SCS, Neff’s (2003b) initial idea was to measure these three components as opposite dimensions with high compassionate reactions on the one hand and low compassionate responses on the other hand.”
• The forest and the trees: Examining the association of self-compassion and its positive and negative components with psychological functioning (2018, background): “An alternative point of view is that the reduced vulnerability to psychopathology offered by self-compassion (as indicated by lower scores on the negative subscales) offers increased protection: the two are flip sides of the same coin (Neff, 2016b).”
• Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) (2019, background): “Neff (2003b, 2016) proposes that self-compassion is a type of self-to-self relating that represents a compassionate rather than uncompassionate stance toward the self when faced with personal suffering: self-kindness versus self-judgment, a sense of common humanity versus isolation,…”
• Old Wine in New Bottles? The Case of Self–Compassion and Neuroticism (2017, methodology): “…about the factor structure of the SCS (López et al., 2015; Muris, 2016; Muris, Meesters, Pierik, & de Kock, 2016; Muris, Otgaar, & Petrocchi, 2016; Neff, 2016; Neff & Whitaker, in press); (ii) examined the distinctiveness of self-compassion with regard to the five-factor model (FFM) of…”
• Self-Compassion: Theory, Method, Research, and Intervention. (2022, methodology): “However, it can also take a fierce, powerful, agentic form, especially when it is aimed at self-protection, meeting our important needs or motivating change (Neff 2021).”
• Self-compassion and life satisfaction: The mediating role of hope ☆ (2016, methodology): “Since previous studies (Hall, Row, Wuensch, & Godley, 2013; Neff, 2016) found that different components of self-compassion demonstrate different influences on individual's well-being, we conducted two additional analyses of self-compassion at more detailed levels regarding the functions of three com”
• Does Self-Compassion Entail Reduced Self-Judgment, Isolation, and Over-Identification? A Response to Muris, Otgaar, and Petrocchi (2016) (2016, methodology): “As I pointed out in Neff (2016), however, BWhile the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems can be understood as distinct, this does not mean they are completely isolated and unrelated to one another, and in fact, research suggests the two systems continuously interact and co-vary (Porges…”