{
  "creator": [
    "Barclay-Timmis, Victoria S.",
    "Burton, Lorelle J.",
    "Beccaria, Gavin"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2023-08-11"
  ],
  "description": [
    "There are currently no parent-reported scales adapted or validated to measure self-compassion in preadolescent children despite growing interest in the application of this construct in both illness and wellness fields. Two-new measures of self-compassion—modelled from Neff’s Self-Compassion Scale—were designed and pilot tested to provide preliminary evidence of validity with preadolescents aged between 9 and 12 years (n = 193) and their parents (n = 108). Participants completed the Self-Compassion Scale-Preadolescent (SCS-P) or the Self-Compassion Scale-Preadolescent-Parent Report (SCS-P-PR), along with measures of resilience and psychosocial wellbeing. Factor analyses indicted that both the SCS-P and SCS-P-PR measured two statistically and theoretically distinct constructs: compassionate self-responding and uncompassionate self-responding. Both types of self-responding were related to most of the measures of psychosocial wellbeing and resilience in the expected directions. Importantly, the SCS-P-PR is the first parent-reported measure of self-compassion to be introduced in the literature; moderate correlations with the SCS-P suggest that self-compassionate attitudes and behaviours in children are visible to their parents. Should further validation research replicate these promising preliminary findings, the SCS-P and the SCS-P-PR have potential to make valuable contributions to the assessments available to researchers investigating self-compassion in preadolescent children. This research adds to the growing body of literature that cautions against the common practice of viewing self-compassion as one overarching construct. It is recommended that future research take a qualitative approach to enable deeper exploration of both the positive and negative elements of self-compassionate responding in cohorts of children."
  ],
  "format": [
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  "identifier": [
    "https://miss.psychopen.eu/index.php/miss/article/view/11199",
    "10.5964/miss.11199"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://miss.psychopen.eu/index.php/miss/article/view/11199/11199.pdf",
    "https://miss.psychopen.eu/index.php/miss/article/view/11199/11199.html",
    "https://miss.psychopen.eu/index.php/miss/article/view/11199/11199.xml"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2023 Victoria S. Barclay-Timmis, Lorelle J. Burton, Gavin Beccaria",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences; Vol. 5 (2023); 1-38",
    "2523-8930",
    "10.5964/miss.v5"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "self-compassion",
    "measurement",
    "scale",
    "child",
    "preadolescent",
    "construct validity"
  ],
  "title": [
    "The Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Two New Scales of Self-Compassion for Preadolescents"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}