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The scale you just completed was the Self-Compassion Scale, developed by Kristin Neff (2003).

This scale measures your feelings of compassion toward yourself at times you think you are inadequate, fail at something, or suffer generally. Self-compassion has three components:

• Self-kindness: being positive towards yourself, as opposed to self-criticizing or ignoring pain and personal shortcomings.

• Common humanity: acknowledging that we're all human,� and we all sometimes fail to meet a standard and experience emotional pain.

• Mindfulness: understanding your emotions as they are, neither suppressing them nor exaggerating. It means being aware of what you feel in a non-judgmental way.

The graph below shows your self-compassion scores on all three dimensions in blue bars. The self-compassion scores of less-happy people are shown in red bars and the self-compassion scores of happy people are shown in green bars. Higher scores indicate more self-compassion.

As the graph above shows, happier people tend to be more self-kind, recognize that we all fail sometimes, and examine their emotions in a non-judgmental way.

How do I compare to my friends?

The graph below shows your score (in dark green) compared to your friends (in light green) , liberals (in blue) , conservatives (in red) , women (in pink) , and men (in light blue) .

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How do I compare to my friends?

The graph below shows your score (in dark green) compared to your friends (in light green) , liberals (in blue) , conservatives (in red) , women (in pink) , and men (in light blue) .

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Why is the construct important for well-being? Individuals who are self-compassionate are more psychologically healthy. Self-compassion has a positive relationship with people’s life satisfaction, happiness, optimism, curiosity, desire to learn, connectedness to others, and emotional resilience. On the other hand, individuals with low self-compassion are more often criticize themselves, over-think and get mentally stuck on the bad, unsuccessfully try to suppress negative thoughts, and suffer more often depression and anxiety. They even have unhealthy attitudes toward their own eating habits.that self-compassionate individuals experience greater psychological health than those who lack self-compassion. For example, self-compassion is positively associated with life-satisfaction, wisdom, happiness, optimism, curiosity, learning goals, social connectedness, personal responsibility, and emotional resilience. At the same time, it is negatively associated with self-criticism, depression, anxiety, rumination, thought suppression, perfectionism, and disordered eating attitudes.

What can I do to improve my scores? One can not grow self-compassion overnight, but you won’t be stuck with chronic self-criticism if you take the time to improve. Just as people are told to ˜stop and smell the roses,˜ the recommendation of experts is to stop and really listen to what you are feeling. In a culture focused on happiness, it is easy to forget that negative emotions (e.g., stress) are inevitable, and we are bound to experience them from time to time. You should acknowledge what you are feeling instead of trying to ignore it or convince yourself otherwise. Also, self-compassion is not being self-centered. If you consider yourself to be similar to other people, who also experience stress, failures, and hardships, you will not feel isolated or trapped in your shortcomings.

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