Understanding self-compassion in adolescents: Validation study of the Self-Compassion Scale

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Autor(a) principal: Cunha, Marina
Data de Publicação: 2016
Outros Autores: Xavier, Ana, Castilho, Paula
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/46891
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.09.023
Resumo: Self-compassion is an adaptive self-attitude when considering personal inadequacies or difficult life situations and seems to be crucial to adolescent’s experience. However, self-compassion remains less investigated in adolescence. This paper aims to analyse the psychometric properties of Self-Compassion Scale (SCS; Neff, 2003) and test its six-factor structure through a Confirmatory Factor Analysis in a representative sample of adolescents. The sample consists of 3165 adolescents, aged between 12 and 19 years old (Mage = 15.49) from Portuguese schools. Results confirm the six-factor and second-order structures of the SCS and the measurement invariance across gender. The SCS and subscales also revealed good internal reliability and convergent validity with measures of positive emotional memories, depressive, anxiety and stress symptoms. Overall, our findings suggest that the SCS is a valid and reliable measure to assess self-compassion among adolescents.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Understanding self-compassion in adolescents: Validation study of the Self-Compassion Scale
title Understanding self-compassion in adolescents: Validation study of the Self-Compassion Scale
spellingShingle Understanding self-compassion in adolescents: Validation study of the Self-Compassion Scale
Cunha, Marina
Self-compassion
Adolescence
SCS
Confirmatory factor analysis
Measurement invariance
title_short Understanding self-compassion in adolescents: Validation study of the Self-Compassion Scale
title_full Understanding self-compassion in adolescents: Validation study of the Self-Compassion Scale
title_fullStr Understanding self-compassion in adolescents: Validation study of the Self-Compassion Scale
title_full_unstemmed Understanding self-compassion in adolescents: Validation study of the Self-Compassion Scale
title_sort Understanding self-compassion in adolescents: Validation study of the Self-Compassion Scale
author Cunha, Marina
author_facet Cunha, Marina
Xavier, Ana
Castilho, Paula
author_role author
author2 Xavier, Ana
Castilho, Paula
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Cunha, Marina
Xavier, Ana
Castilho, Paula
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Self-compassion
Adolescence
SCS
Confirmatory factor analysis
Measurement invariance
topic Self-compassion
Adolescence
SCS
Confirmatory factor analysis
Measurement invariance
description Self-compassion is an adaptive self-attitude when considering personal inadequacies or difficult life situations and seems to be crucial to adolescent’s experience. However, self-compassion remains less investigated in adolescence. This paper aims to analyse the psychometric properties of Self-Compassion Scale (SCS; Neff, 2003) and test its six-factor structure through a Confirmatory Factor Analysis in a representative sample of adolescents. The sample consists of 3165 adolescents, aged between 12 and 19 years old (Mage = 15.49) from Portuguese schools. Results confirm the six-factor and second-order structures of the SCS and the measurement invariance across gender. The SCS and subscales also revealed good internal reliability and convergent validity with measures of positive emotional memories, depressive, anxiety and stress symptoms. Overall, our findings suggest that the SCS is a valid and reliable measure to assess self-compassion among adolescents.
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