A reconsideration of the self-compassion scale's total score: Self-compassion versus self-criticism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  López, Angélica ^a   Sanderman, Robbert ^a   Smink, Ans ^b   Zhang, Ying ^a   Eric, Van Sonderen ^c   Ranchor, Adelita ^a   Schroevers, Maya J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; RUMINATION; SELF COMPASSION; SELF COMPASSION SCALE; SELF CRITICISM; STRESS; ANXIETY; EMPATHY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; EMPATHY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF REPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84941308747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132940     Document Type: Article

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