The Unconditional Self-Kindness Scale: Assessing the Ability to Respond with Kindness to Threats to the Self

Smith, Bruce W.; Guzman, Anne; Erickson, Kelly

doi:10.1007/s12671-018-0912-5

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“…Research has observed positive associations between self‐kindness and self‐efficacy (Iskender, 2009 ), suggesting that remaining kind to oneself can enhance one's beliefs about capabilities to manage stressful situations, and consequently increase an individual's confidence to successfully implement approach coping strategies (Sirois et al, 2015 ). This finding is consistent with evidence showing that women are often more self‐critical and show themselves less self‐kindness than men (Smith et al, 2018 ). Furthermore, gender socialisation theories suggest women discuss their feelings more regularly than men (Brody & Hall, 2008 ).…”

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Self‐compassion, coping strategies and gender differences in psychology, counselling and psychotherapy practitioners during COVID‐19: Lessons learnt

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Yankouskaya

Panourgia

2022

Couns and Psychother Res

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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has brought dramatic changes in everyday life and demanded extreme amounts of resilience globally (Chen & Bonanno, 2020). The current investigation highlights the vital role of psychology, counselling and psychotherapy practitioners (PCPPs) who played, and still play, an essential part in providing care for people whose mental health has been adversely affected by the pandemic. Despite the erroneous belief that PCPPs should know how to cope with stress (Pope & Tabachnick, 1994), evidence from the members of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) suggests that they are not immune to occupational stress (Ryan et al., 2019); the inherent stress of dealing with their patients' trauma renders them more vulnerable to work stress and burnout (Lamb & Cogan, 2016). Unsurprisingly, COVID-19 deteriorated the public's mental health (Kar et al., 2021;Sheek-Hussein et al., 2021) and has been classified as requiring disaster management (Sheek-Hussein et al., 2021). Lambert and

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Self‐compassion, coping strategies and gender differences in psychology, counselling and psychotherapy practitioners during COVID‐19: Lessons learnt

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Yankouskaya

Panourgia

2022

Couns and Psychother Res

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“…Perceived failure and moments of emotional pain are met with empathy, warmth, and understanding. The idea of self-kindness resembles unconditional positive regard (Rogers 1951) and other humanistic approaches like B-perception-the belief that objects, like the self, have value simply by existing (Maslow 1968), unconditional self-acceptance (Ellis 1973), or unconditional self-kindness (Smith et al 2018). In these approaches, individuals believe that they deserve to be loved, understood, and valued, regardless of external factors such as success, social status, or appearance.…”

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The Relationship Among the Components of Self-compassion: A Pilot Study Using a Compassionate Writing Intervention to Enhance Self-kindness, Common Humanity, and Mindfulness

2020

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Self-compassion has been theorized to have three components, each with a positive pole and a negative pole: self-kindness versus self-judgment, common humanity versus isolation, and mindfulness versus over-identification. Neff (Self Identity 2:85-101, 2003a) proposes that they mutually influence each other, however, this proposition has not been tested yet. We conducted a pilot study to see if improvements from training one component spilled over to the other two-and whether these trainings had an impact on wellbeing. 80 participants completed 8 weeks of self-compassionate writing exercises to enhance either self-kindness, common humanity, or mindfulness. Trait self-compassion was assessed using the six-factor model of the self-compassion scale. To address issues of alpha-error-inflation, the false discovery rate was fixed at 5%, and critical p values were adjusted accordingly. Participants in the mindfulness condition reported increased total self-compassion (p = .009), which was accompanied by increased self-kindness (p = .027) and lower isolation (p = .045). Participants in the common humanity condition reported improved total self-compassion (p = .018), lower over-identification (p = .045), and higher life-satisfaction (p = .049). The training in self-kindness failed to improve self-kindness or any other factor. These findings provide initial evidence that the components of self-compassion mutually enhance each other. They also emphasize the importance of mindfulness within the conceptualization of self-compassion.

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“…The Self-compassion Scale (SCS; [2]) is the most commonly used measure of self-compassion in research [3], although other self-compassion scales have been developed recently (e.g. [19][20][21]). However, this 26-item scale has been criticised for its limited reliability; in Lopez et al's study (2015) of 1643 Dutch participants aged 20-97 years, confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) could not replicate the original six-factor structure of the SCS.…”

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Revisiting the Self-compassion Scale-Short Form: Stronger Associations with Self-inadequacy and Resilience

Kotera

Sheffield

2020

SN Compr. Clin. Med.

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The Self-compassion Scale-Short Form (SCS-SF) was developed as an economical alternative for the Self-compassion Scale (SCS), one of the few scales to assess self-compassion. Despite the active use of the SCS-SF, a psychometric evaluation of this scale remains limited. This study analysed the factor structure, reliability, and construct validity of the SCS-SF in UK university student populations. Of 365 students approached, 333 completed the SCS-SF and other measures including negative psychological constructs (mental health problems, self-criticism, and mental health shame) and positive psychological constructs (selfreassurance, resilience, and well-being). Data were analysed through confirmatory factor analyses and correlations. CFA revealed that the six-factor structure, reported in the validation paper, was not replicated. The positive factor, consisting of the three positive subscales, was not strongly related to any variable but moderately related to reassured-self, resilience, well-being, and inadequate-self. The negative factor, consisting of the three negative subscales, was strongly related to inadequate-self and moderately related to resilience, reassured-self, stress, well-being, depression, and internal shame. Coefficients in the negative factor were in general larger than those in the positive factor. The total SCS-SF score was most strongly related to inadequate-self, followed by resilience. Inter-correlations of the six subscales did follow neither Neff's [1] theoretical model of self-compassion nor the full-scale factor solution. Findings do not accord with the common use of the global SCS-SF score as an assessment of six factors of self-compassion and suggest a two-factor solution assessing self-criticism and self-compassion.

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The Unconditional Self-Kindness Scale: Assessing the Ability to Respond with Kindness to Threats to the Self

Cited by 20 publications

References 45 publications

Self‐compassion, coping strategies and gender differences in psychology, counselling and psychotherapy practitioners during COVID‐19: Lessons learnt

Self‐compassion, coping strategies and gender differences in psychology, counselling and psychotherapy practitioners during COVID‐19: Lessons learnt

The Relationship Among the Components of Self-compassion: A Pilot Study Using a Compassionate Writing Intervention to Enhance Self-kindness, Common Humanity, and Mindfulness

Revisiting the Self-compassion Scale-Short Form: Stronger Associations with Self-inadequacy and Resilience

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