Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale.

SCBCS

What it measures

Dispositional compassion - the tendency to feel and act with compassion toward others, especially those who are suffering (a brief prosocial-emotion well-being correlate).

Length and format

5 items. 7-pt Likert (1 not at all true of me - 7 very true of me) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Adapted into several languages (ES, ZH, PT and others)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

open with attribution

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Reference

Hwang, J. Y., Plante, T., & Lackey, K. (2008). The development of the Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale. Pastoral Psychology, 56(4), 421-428.