Psychometric properties of the self-compassion scale
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https://doi.org/10.56380/mjer.v29.1.1Keywords :
Psychological wellbeing of high school students, self-compassion, adaptation study, content validity, face validityAbstract
Self-compassion is the individual's ability to accept their own mistakes with compassion, understanding that the difficult situation they are going through can happen to other people. In 2003, Kristin Neff developed the 'Self-Compassion Scale' with 26 questions. Subsequently, a shorter 12-question version was developed by Raes and colleagues in 2010. Later, adaptation studies have been conducted in several countries. To identify relevant studies, a literature review was conducted in the research libraries of the National University of Mongolia and the University of Education of Mongolia. However, no related studies were found. Therefore, this study aims to investigate Psychometric Properties of the Self-Compassion Scale. The research method was translated using the committee approach suggested by Van de Vijver, while the content validity was assessed through the expert review method proposed by Valmi et al. The requirements for face validity were met criteria based on the data of 20 tenth-grader students, therefore data was collected from 343 high school students. Exploratory factor analysis on the data of 312 students resulted in 3 factors. However, when confirmatory factor analysis was performed on the same data, the 3-factor model exhibited good fit values.
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