The Relationship between Self-compassion and Other-focused Concern among College Undergraduates, Community Adults, and Practicing Meditators

By K. Neff, Elizabeth Pommier. 2013

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The Self-Compassion Scale is a Valid and Theoretically Coherent Measure of Self-Compassion (2016, background): “The internal reliability of the SCS has been found to be consistently high in studies across a wide variety of populations suggesting that all SCS items are inter-correlated in a satisfactory manner (e.g., Allen et al. 2012; Neff and Pommier 2013; Werner et al. 2012).”
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) (2019, background): “Neff, K. & Germer, K. (2019).”
Self-Compassion and Psychological Well-being (2017, background): “Neff and Pommier (2013) examined the link between self-compassion and other-focused concern among college undergraduates, an older community sample, and individuals practicing Buddhist meditation.”
Self-compassion, empathy, and helping intentions (2014, methodology): “However, upon reflection, the negative relationship between self-compassion and empathy makes sense given the specific items in our empathy measure and past research by Neff and Pommier (2013) that measured multiple facets of empathy.”
Activating the inner caregiver: The role of support-giving schemas in increasing state self-compassion (2013, background): “Neff and Pommier (2012) found a positive association between trait self-compassion and some measures of other-focused concern (i.e., forgiveness and perspective taking) in both undergraduates and community adult samples, but in the undergraduate samples trait self-compassion was not significantly…”
What is compassion and how can we measure it? A review of definitions and measures. (2016, background): “For example, Neff and Pommier (2013) explored the relationship between self-compassion and compassion for others and found that they were not correlated in a sample of undergraduates (r = 0.00), and only weakly correlated in a community sample and a sample of practicing meditators (r = 0.15 and…”
Individual Differences in Self-Compassion: The Role of Attachment and Experiences of Parenting in Childhood (2015, background): “For example, Neff and Pommier (2013) found that individuals higher in self-compassion experienced greater empathic concern, altruism, and compassion for humanity.”
Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health (2021, background): “We are typically much colder and crueler to ourselves than to those we care about, and selfcompassion turns this around so that we include ourselves in the circle of compassion (Neff & Pommier, 2013).”
Self-Compassion: Theory, Method, Research, and Intervention. (2022, background): “Self-compassionate individuals have higher trait levels of hope, gratitude, curiosity, and vitality (Gunnell et al. 2017;Neff et al. 2007, 2018a).”
Self-Compassion and Well-Being in Parents of Children with Autism (2014, background): “The positive association between selfcompassion and age replicates findings of previous studies (Albertson et al. 2014; Neff and Pommier 2013) and suggests that increased self-compassion is one benefit of greater maturity.”
Self-Compassion and Bedtime Procrastination: an Emotion Regulation Perspective (2018, neutral): “The SCS demonstrates good validity, both convergent and discriminate, and excellent testretest reliability in previous research (α = .93) (Neff 2003a; Neff and Pommier 2013).”
Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Self-Compassion (2015, background): “In other words, the discrepancy between the level of compassion given to oneself versus to others appears to be larger among women than men (Neff & Pommier, 2013).”
The forest and the trees: Examining the association of self-compassion and its positive and negative components with psychological functioning (2018, background): “As discussed in Neff and Pommier (2013), many people low in self-compassion are still high in empathy for others, and the two do not necessarily go hand in hand.”