Explore how you respond to yourself during difficulty with the 12-item Self-Compassion Scale Short Form.
Method and research sourcesExplore how you respond to yourself during difficulty with the 12-item Self-Compassion Scale Short Form.
Six negatively worded items are reversed (6 minus the response). The mean of all 12 scored responses ranges from 1 to 5.
The original publication and supporting material document the questionnaire and its scoring.
Filip Raes, Elizabeth Pommier, Kristin D. Neff, Dinska Van Gucht
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The author recommends the full SCS when individual subscale scores are needed; the short form is better suited to the overall score.
