Psychometric characteristics of the Persian version of Social Self-Compassion Scale

Subject Areas : social psychology

sara karimi ¹ , Faezeh Peimanpak ² , abbas abdollahi ³

1 - Ph.D. Student of Counseling, Department Of Counseling, Faculty Of Education And Psychology, University Of Al-Zahra , Tehran , Iran. Email: [e-mail]
2 - Ph.D. Student of Counseling, Department Of Counseling, Faculty Of Education And Psychology, University Of Al-Zahra , Tehran , Iran. Email: [e-mail]
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2024-11-08 Accepted : 2024-12-24 Published : 2025-03-19

Keywords: social self-compassion, positive affect, negative affect, social anxiety, validity, reliability.,

Abstract :

The Social Self-Compassion Scale (SSCS) is a self-report scale for measuring self-compassion that, with 12 items, measures people's tendency to be kind and understanding towards themselves when they feel they have committed social mistakes. Slow However, this scale has not been investigated and psychometrically tested in Iranian society. The purpose of the present research was to translate this scale from English to Farsi in the first stage and then to determine its psychometric properties in the Iranian sample. The research sample included 307 people (226 women and 81 men) who were selected in a non-random way and responded to the research tool. According to the findings, face validity, content and structure showed the appropriate validity and reliability of this tool. Also, convergent validity (AVE>0.50) was determined and confirmed for this questionnaire. Composite reliability and Cronbach's alpha coefficient were used to check the reliability and internal consistency of the passion scale. The results showed that this scale has good internal consistency and composite reliability. Finally, to check the concurrent validity, the analysis of the correlation matrix of social narcissism and its factors with the positive and negative affect assessment scale (PANAS) and Jarbak's social anxiety questionnaire showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between social narcissism and its factors with positive affect and with negative affect There is a negative and significant correlation. Also, there is a positive and significant correlation between social self-compassion and its factors with social anxiety, which according to the scoring of the social anxiety questionnaire means that with the increase of social self-compassion, social anxiety decreases. Therefore, the social self-compassion questionnaire has good concurrent validity (p<0.01). All in all, the results of the present study showed that this scale has favorable statistical characteristics in the Iranian sample, and it can be used with confidence in Iranian samples.

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