Dimensionality and gender-based measurement invariance of the Compassion Scale in a community sample

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Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Rúben
Data de Publicação: 2017
Outros Autores: Castilho, Paula, Vieira, Cláudia, Vagos, Paula, Rijo, Daniel
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11328/2142
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.06.003
Resumo: Compassion has been proposed as relevant to psychological functioning and mental health, involving being compassionate and caring towards others in times of difficulty. The Compassion Scale (CS) proposes to assess compassion for others considering its different dimensions (Kindness; Common humanity; Mindfulness; Indifference; Separation, and Disengagement) and also offers a total score. The current work investigated the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of this instrument in adults (N = 610). Results showed the acceptability of a two higher-order factor solution representing a negative and a positive valence of compassion (i.e., Compassion and Disconnectedness), with each higher-order factor comprising three different dimensions of compassion. Multi-group analyses established measurement invariance across gender; further mean comparison analyses showed that women presented higher levels of the positive dimensions of compassion, whereas men showed higher levels of the negative ones. The CS demonstrated good internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and limited validity in relation to external variables. Overall, these findings contribute to the validation of the CS in a non-clinical adult sample, supporting a new measurement model that partially concurs with the original one. It thus provides the user with a new way of assessing and interpreting compassion that may be useful both in research and clinical settings.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Dimensionality and gender-based measurement invariance of the Compassion Scale in a community sample
title Dimensionality and gender-based measurement invariance of the Compassion Scale in a community sample
spellingShingle Dimensionality and gender-based measurement invariance of the Compassion Scale in a community sample
Sousa, Rúben
Compassion
Assessment
Adults
Psychometrics
Dimensionality
Gender
title_short Dimensionality and gender-based measurement invariance of the Compassion Scale in a community sample
title_full Dimensionality and gender-based measurement invariance of the Compassion Scale in a community sample
title_fullStr Dimensionality and gender-based measurement invariance of the Compassion Scale in a community sample
title_full_unstemmed Dimensionality and gender-based measurement invariance of the Compassion Scale in a community sample
title_sort Dimensionality and gender-based measurement invariance of the Compassion Scale in a community sample
author Sousa, Rúben
author_facet Sousa, Rúben
Castilho, Paula
Vieira, Cláudia
Vagos, Paula
Rijo, Daniel
author_role author
author2 Castilho, Paula
Vieira, Cláudia
Vagos, Paula
Rijo, Daniel
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Sousa, Rúben
Castilho, Paula
Vieira, Cláudia
Vagos, Paula
Rijo, Daniel
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Compassion
Assessment
Adults
Psychometrics
Dimensionality
Gender
topic Compassion
Assessment
Adults
Psychometrics
Dimensionality
Gender
description Compassion has been proposed as relevant to psychological functioning and mental health, involving being compassionate and caring towards others in times of difficulty. The Compassion Scale (CS) proposes to assess compassion for others considering its different dimensions (Kindness; Common humanity; Mindfulness; Indifference; Separation, and Disengagement) and also offers a total score. The current work investigated the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of this instrument in adults (N = 610). Results showed the acceptability of a two higher-order factor solution representing a negative and a positive valence of compassion (i.e., Compassion and Disconnectedness), with each higher-order factor comprising three different dimensions of compassion. Multi-group analyses established measurement invariance across gender; further mean comparison analyses showed that women presented higher levels of the positive dimensions of compassion, whereas men showed higher levels of the negative ones. The CS demonstrated good internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and limited validity in relation to external variables. Overall, these findings contribute to the validation of the CS in a non-clinical adult sample, supporting a new measurement model that partially concurs with the original one. It thus provides the user with a new way of assessing and interpreting compassion that may be useful both in research and clinical settings.
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http://hdl.handle.net/11328/2142
Sousa, R., Castolho, 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. Disponível no Repositório UPT, http://hdl.handle.net/11328/2142
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.06.003
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