Compassionate love: A framework for research.

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Toward understanding understanding : The importance of feeling understood in relationships (2017, unknown): “Sprecher and Fehr (2009, 2005) and Underwood (2009) characterize compassionate love as a form of caregiving that is focused on understanding and genuine acceptance of another's needs and wishes and expressed through openness, warmth, and a willingness to put a partner's goals ahead of one's own.”
The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale: Overview and Results (2011, methodology): “Two of the items, for example, (“I feel a selfless caring for others” and the mercy item, “I accept others even when they do things I think are wrong”) have been used as a compassionate love subscale in a number of studies [28,29].”
Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review (2010, background): “At the same time it is quite clear that compassion is an enduring affective trait (Eisenberg et al., 2002; Grühn, Rebucal, Diehl, Lumley, & Labouvie-Vief, 2008; Shiota et al., 2006; Underwood, 2009).”