Gu, Jenny, Baer, Ruth, Cavanagh, Kate, Kuyken, Willem and Strauss, Clara (2019) Development and psychometric properties of the Sussex-Oxford compassion scales (SOCS). Assessment. ISSN 1073-1911

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Compassion; self-compassion; self-report; measure; questionnaire; SOCS-O; SOCS-S
Schools and Departments:	School of Psychology > Psychology
Depositing User:	Sanjeedah Choudhury
Date Deposited:	30 Jul 2019 09:12
Last Modified:	30 Jul 2019 09:15
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/85212

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