Investigating the Compass of Shame: The development of the Compass of Shame Scale

By J. Elison, R. Lennon, S. Pulos. 2006

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The way in which one copes with, or defends against, shame has important implications. The Compass of Shame Scale (CoSS) was developed to assess use of the 4 shame-coping styles described by Nathanson (1992): attack self, withdrawal, attack other, and avoidance. Reliability and criterion validity were explored ( N = 322). Subscale reliabilities ranged from .74 to .91. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a model with 4 primary factors. A differentiated pattern of correlations was obtained between CoSS scales and general internalized shame, self-esteem, anger, coping, and psychological symptoms. Results provided empirical support for Nathanson’s Compass of Shame model and the validity of the CoSS.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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• Moral emotions and moral behavior. (2007, unknown): “are most highly correlated with shame, well as measures of more general psychological adjustment (Elison et al. 2006a,b). the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (SRPS) negatively related to the guilt-like Adaptive Response to Shame scale and positively related to Attack Others and Avoid-ance 2 on the…”