Compassionate Love Scale.
CLS
- What it measures
- Compassionate (altruistic) love - care, concern, tenderness, and orientation toward supporting others, measured toward close others and/or toward humanity/strangers.
- Length and format
- 21 (per target version: close others; strangers/humanity). 7-pt Likert (1 not at all true - 7 very true) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Adapted into several languages
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Sprecher, S., & Fehr, B. (2005). Compassionate love for close others and humanity. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 22(5), 629-651.
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