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Self-compassion Scale - A

(SCS-A)

Research Group
CBPI
Contacts Marina Isabel Vieira Antunes da Cunha Ana Maria de Jesus Xavier Paula Cristina de Oliveira de Castilho Freitas José Augusto da Veiga Pinto de Gouveia

TITLE OF THE PORTUGUESE VERSION

Escala de Auto-Compaixão para Adolescentes

ORIGINAL VERSION

Neff, K. (2003)

PORTUGUESE VERSION

Pinto-Gouveia, J., Cunha, M., Xavier, A., & Castilho, P. (2011)

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

This questionnaire is a 26 items and six subscales: Self-Kindness; Self-Judgement; Common Humanity; Isolation; Mindfulness; Over-Identification. Respondents were instructed with the sentence “how I typically act towards myself in difficult times” and were asked to answer each item according to a 5-point scale (1 = Almost Never; 5 = Almost Always). Subscale scores are computed by calculating the mean of subscale item responses. To compute the total score of SCS, the Self-Kindness, Common Humanity, and Mindfulness are summed with reverse scores of the Self-Judgement, Isolation, and Over-identification subscales. Higher scores indicate greater self-compassion.

REFERENCES

  • Cunha, M., Xavier, A., & Castilho, P. (2016). Understanding self-compassion in adolescents: Validation study of the Self-Compassion Scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 93, 56–62. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.09.023

  • Neff, K. D. (2003). Development and validation of a scale to measure self-compassion. Self and Identity, 2, 223–250. doi:10.1080/15298860390209035

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