'I have high self-compassion': A Face-Valid Single-Item Self-Compassion Scale for Resource-Limited Research Contexts

Clin Psychol Psychother. 2022 Jan 26. doi: 10.1002/cpp.2714. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe original 26-item Self-Compassion Scale (SCS; Neff, 2003) and 12-item Short-Form Self-Compassion Scale (SF-SCS; Raes et al., 2011) are scales commonly used in cross-sectional and longitudinal research to assess the global self-compassion construct and its six facets. We introduce the Single-Item Self-Compassion Scale (SISC; "I have high self-compassion") to measure the global self-compassion construct in time-, space-, and resource-limited contexts (e.g., daily diaries, experience sampling, and nationally representative surveys). Additionally, the SISC will expand knowledge about self-compassion by providing researchers whose primary interest is not self-compassion with a convenient, face-valid option to measure self-compassion. Across 10 samples (four cross-sectional, four longitudinal, and two seven-day daily diary; N = 2,477), we demonstrated that the SISC has acceptable psychometric properties. Specifically, the SISC was temporally consistent, correlated adequately with the SCS and SF-SCS, exhibited nearly identical correlational patterns when compared with the SCS and SF-SCS with a wide range of criterion measures (e.g., self-esteem, personality, affective and social functioning, mental health, and demographic variables), and saved 12 minutes over a 7-day diary. Results replicated among students, community samples, and across U.S., Turkey, and Malaysia. Thus, we provide the fiel...
Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research