Further Validation of a Dutch Translation of the Sussex Oxford Compassion for the Self Scale in Samples of Crisis Line Volunteers, Military Personnel and Nursing Students

Eva de Krijger; Renate Willems; Peter ten Klooster; Ellen Bakker; Harald Miedema; Constance Drossaert; Ernst Bohlmeijer

doi:10.3389/FPSYG.2022.895850

Further Validation of a Dutch Translation of the Sussex Oxford Compassion for the Self Scale in Samples of Crisis Line Volunteers, Military Personnel and Nursing Students

Eva de Krijger, Renate Willems, Peter ten Klooster, Ellen Bakker, Harald Miedema, Constance Drossaert, Ernst Bohlmeijer^*

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Self-compassion is considered an important, transdiagnostic factor for mental health. The Sussex Oxford Compassion for the Self Scale (SOCS-S) is a recently developed comprehensive measure of self-compassion, that was found to have promising psychometric properties among health care staff and university students in the initial validation study. The aim of this study is the further psychometric evaluation of a Dutch translation of the SOCS-S in different populations and settings. The SOCS-S was administered in three different Dutch samples [crisis line volunteers (n = 560), military personnel (n = 244) and nursing students (n = 255)]. The results confirm the five-factor structure of the SOCS-S and its reliability and criterion and convergent validity across the samples. Measurement invariance was demonstrated for gender in two samples and for age in all three samples, but not across professions. Finally, the SOCS-S was found to explain additional variance in mental health in comparison to a widely used self-compassion measure (SCS-SF).

Original language	English
Article number	895850
Number of pages	15
Journal	Frontiers in psychology
Volume	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/FPSYG.2022.895850
Publication status	Published - 4 Jul 2022

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self-compassion
self-report

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de Krijger, E., Willems, R., ten Klooster, P., Bakker, E., Miedema, H., Drossaert, C., & Bohlmeijer, E. (2022). Further Validation of a Dutch Translation of the Sussex Oxford Compassion for the Self Scale in Samples of Crisis Line Volunteers, Military Personnel and Nursing Students. Frontiers in psychology, 13, Article 895850. https://doi.org/10.3389/FPSYG.2022.895850

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