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Compassion Scale

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Research Group
CBPI
Contacts Rúben José Abrantes de Sousa

TITLE OF THE PORTUGUESE VERSION

Escala da Compaixão

ORIGINAL VERSION

Pommier, E. A. (2011)

PORTUGUESE VERSION

Sousa, R., Castilho, P., Vieira, C., Vagos, P., & Rijo, D. (2017)

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The Compassion Scale is a 24-items self-report scale, developed to assess compassion towards others in the Portuguese adult population. It encompass two higher-order factors, namely Compassion (comprising three first-order factors: Kindness, Common Humanity and Mindfulness) and Disconnectedness (comprising other three first-order factors: Indifference, Separation and Disengagement). Participants rate the items in a five-point Likert scale (from 1 = almost never to 5 = almost always). Items composing the six-first order factors are:

  • Kindness: 6; 8; 16; 24;
  • Common Humanity: 11; 15; 17; 20;
  • Mindfulness: 4; 9; 13; 21;
  • Indifference: 2; 12; 14; 18;
  • Separation:3; 5; 10; 22;
  • Disengagement: 1; 7; 19; 23.

REFERENCES

  • Pommier, E. A. (2011). The compassion scale. Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences, 72, 1174.

  • Sousa, R., Castilho, P., Vieira, C., Vagos, P., & Rijo, D. (2017). Dimensionality and gender-based measurement invariance of the Compassion Scale in a community sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 117, 182-187. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.06.003

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