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Development and Psychometric Properties of the Sussex-Oxford Compassion Scales (SOCS)
Compassion has received increasing societal and scientific interest in recent years. The science of compassion requires a tool that can offer valid and reliable measurement of the construct to allow examination of its causes, correlates, and consequences. The current studies developed and examined t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6906538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31353931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073191119860911 |
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author | Gu, Jenny Baer, Ruth Cavanagh, Kate Kuyken, Willem Strauss, Clara |
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description | Compassion has received increasing societal and scientific interest in recent years. The science of compassion requires a tool that can offer valid and reliable measurement of the construct to allow examination of its causes, correlates, and consequences. The current studies developed and examined the psychometric properties of new self-report measures of compassion for others and for the self, the 20-item Sussex-Oxford Compassion for Others Scale (SOCS-O) and 20-item Sussex-Oxford Compassion for the Self Scale (SOCS-S). These were based on the theoretically and empirically supported definition of compassion as comprising five dimensions: (a) recognizing suffering, (b) understanding the universality of suffering, (c) feeling for the person suffering, (d) tolerating uncomfortable feelings, and (e) motivation to act/acting to alleviate suffering. Findings support the five-factor structure for both the SOCS-O and SOCS-S. Scores on both scales showed adequate internal consistency, interpretability, floor/ceiling effects, and convergent and discriminant validity. |
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spelling | pubmed-69065382019-12-24 Development and Psychometric Properties of the Sussex-Oxford Compassion Scales (SOCS) Gu, Jenny Baer, Ruth Cavanagh, Kate Kuyken, Willem Strauss, Clara Assessment Articles Compassion has received increasing societal and scientific interest in recent years. The science of compassion requires a tool that can offer valid and reliable measurement of the construct to allow examination of its causes, correlates, and consequences. The current studies developed and examined the psychometric properties of new self-report measures of compassion for others and for the self, the 20-item Sussex-Oxford Compassion for Others Scale (SOCS-O) and 20-item Sussex-Oxford Compassion for the Self Scale (SOCS-S). These were based on the theoretically and empirically supported definition of compassion as comprising five dimensions: (a) recognizing suffering, (b) understanding the universality of suffering, (c) feeling for the person suffering, (d) tolerating uncomfortable feelings, and (e) motivation to act/acting to alleviate suffering. Findings support the five-factor structure for both the SOCS-O and SOCS-S. Scores on both scales showed adequate internal consistency, interpretability, floor/ceiling effects, and convergent and discriminant validity. SAGE Publications 2019-07-29 2020-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6906538/ /pubmed/31353931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073191119860911 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Articles Gu, Jenny Baer, Ruth Cavanagh, Kate Kuyken, Willem Strauss, Clara Development and Psychometric Properties of the Sussex-Oxford Compassion Scales (SOCS) |
title | Development and Psychometric Properties of the Sussex-Oxford
Compassion Scales (SOCS) |
title_full | Development and Psychometric Properties of the Sussex-Oxford
Compassion Scales (SOCS) |
title_fullStr | Development and Psychometric Properties of the Sussex-Oxford
Compassion Scales (SOCS) |
title_full_unstemmed | Development and Psychometric Properties of the Sussex-Oxford
Compassion Scales (SOCS) |
title_short | Development and Psychometric Properties of the Sussex-Oxford
Compassion Scales (SOCS) |
title_sort | development and psychometric properties of the sussex-oxford
compassion scales (socs) |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6906538/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31353931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073191119860911 |
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