The Development of the Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale: An Abbreviation of Sprecher and Fehr’s Compassionate Love Scale

Hwang, Jeong Yeong; Plante, Thomas G.; Lackey, Kathleen

doi:10.1007/s11089-008-0117-2

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“…Dispositional Compassion Teachers' self-reported disposition to be compassionate toward others in general was assessed with the 4-item Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale (Hwang et al 2008). Items were rated on a 5-point scale (1= not at all true of me, 5=very true of me) and included statements such as, BI tend to feel compassion for people, even though I do not know them.^Cronbach alphas were as follows: T1 α=0.76; T2 α=0.85; T3 α=0.79.…”

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Examining Ways That a Mindfulness-Based Intervention Reduces Stress in Public School Teachers: a Mixed-Methods Study

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Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) can reduce teachers' stress. The purpose of this mixed-method study, conducted within the context of a randomized-control trial of an MBI for teachers, was to examine four potential ways by which the MBI reduced teacher stress, including by (1) increasing their efficacy for regulating emotion on the job; (2) improving their ways of coping with stress at work; (3) increasing their efficacy for forgiving colleagues and students at work following conflict, as well as the tendency to do so; and (4) increasing teachers' tendency to feel compassion for people generally, and for challenging students in particular. Public school teachers (n=59) were randomized to an MBI or a waitlist control condition. They completed surveys at pre/post/follow-up and interviews at post-program designed to assess their coping with work stressors and their appraisals of their most challenging students. Survey data showed that efficacy beliefs and the tendency to forgive changed from pre/ post for teachers in the MBI, and partially mediated reductions in stress from baseline to 4-month follow-up. Interview results showed a trend for teachers in the MBI to report more adaptive strategies for coping with job stress, and a tendency to evaluate challenging students in a more positive affective light. Implications for MBIs in teacher professional development are discussed.

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Examining Ways That a Mindfulness-Based Intervention Reduces Stress in Public School Teachers: a Mixed-Methods Study

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“…We assessed compassion using the SCBC-a brief, validated version of Sprecher and Fehr's Compassionate Love Scale, 22 a respected and reliable scale developed for use with the general public. Compassionate love is defined as an attitude toward others that is "focused on caring, concern, tenderness; and an orientation toward supporting, helping, and understanding others."…”

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Abbreviated Mindfulness Intervention for Job Satisfaction, Quality of Life, and Compassion in Primary Care Clinicians: A Pilot Study

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The Annals of Family Medicine

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PURPOSE Burnout, attrition, and low work satisfaction of primary care physicians are growing concerns and can have a negative influence on health care. Interventions for clinicians that improve work-life balance are few and poorly understood. We undertook this study as a first step in investigating whether an abbreviated mindfulness intervention could increase job satisfaction, quality of life, and compassion among primary care clinicians.METHODS A total of 30 primary care clinicians participated in an abbreviated mindfulness course. We used a single-sample, pre-post design. At 4 points in time (baseline, and 1 day, 8 weeks, and 9 months postintervention), participants completed a set of online measures assessing burnout, anxiety, stress, resilience, and compassion. We used a linear mixed-effects model analysis to assess changes in outcome measures. RESULTSParticipants had improvements compared with baseline at all 3 follow-up time points. At 9 months postintervention, they had significantly better scores (1) on all Maslach Burnout Inventory burnout subscales-Emotional Exhaustion (P = .009), Depersonalization (P = .005), and Personal Accomplishment (P <.001); (2) on the Depression (P = .001), Anxiety (P = .006), and Stress (P = .002) subscales of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21; and (3) for perceived stress (P = .002) assessed with the Perceived Stress Scale. There were no significant changes on the 14-item Resilience Scale and the Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale. CONCLUSIONSIn this uncontrolled pilot study, participating in an abbreviated mindfulness training course adapted for primary care clinicians was associated with reductions in indicators of job burnout, depression, anxiety, and stress. Modified mindfulness training may be a time-efficient tool to help support clinician health and well-being, which may have implications for patient care. 2013;412-420. doi:10.1370/afm.1511. Ann Fam Med INTRODUCTIONP hysician burnout is a pervasive health care problem characterized by a loss of emotional, mental, and physical energy due to continued job-related stress. Burnout is more common among physicians than among other professionals, with specialties on the front lines such as primary care being at greatest risk.1 Up to 60% of physicians report having experienced burnout at some point in their careers, 2 with as many as 30% to 40% experiencing burnout at any given time.3 Considerable evidence suggests that burnout negatively affects patient care, 4 which poses new challenges with implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Providing insurance to 32 million previously uninsured citizens will increase demand for primary care services. 5 An expanding older adult population, insufficient supply of primary care physicians, low medical student interest in primary care, lower primary care reimbursement, and increasing workload will add further strain to these professionals. 413 A BBR E V IAT ED MIND FUL NES S IN T ERV EN T IoNuation is compounded by physicians' tendency to give subo...

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“…The second mediation model established the meditational impact of ESJ between SDO and the Santa Clara Brief Compassion measure (Hwang et al 2008). In Step 1 of the mediation model, the regression of SDO on the Santa Clara Brief Compassion measure scores, ignoring the mediator, was not significant, b = .0098, t(152) = -.0805, p = .2090.…”

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Multiple Facets of Compassion: The Impact of Social Dominance Orientation and Economic Systems Justification

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Business students appear predisposed to select disciplines consistent with pre-existing worldviews. These disciplines (e.g., economics) then further reinforce the worldviews which may not always be adaptive. For example, high levels of Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) is a trait often found in business school students (Sidanius et al., Political Psychol 12(4):691-721, 1991). SDO is a competitive and hierarchical worldview and belief-system that ascribes people to higher or lower social rankings. While research suggests that high levels of SDO may be linked to lower levels of empathy, research has not established the potential relationship between another related adaptive trait in the workplace, compassion. Compassion facilitates workplace performance by lowering levels of litigation, easing stress, and facilitating cooperation. Accordingly, the following study aimed to examine the relationship between SDO and compassion while hypothesizing Economic Systems Justification (ESJ) would mediate this relationship. Because of the importance of compassion in the workplace, the prevalence of SDO in the business academic community (Sidanius et al. 1991) and the topicality of ESJ, we conducted our study with business school students. Results confirmed all but one hypothesis.

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The Development of the Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale: An Abbreviation of Sprecher and Fehr’s Compassionate Love Scale

Cited by 239 publications

References 6 publications

Examining Ways That a Mindfulness-Based Intervention Reduces Stress in Public School Teachers: a Mixed-Methods Study

Examining Ways That a Mindfulness-Based Intervention Reduces Stress in Public School Teachers: a Mixed-Methods Study

Abbreviated Mindfulness Intervention for Job Satisfaction, Quality of Life, and Compassion in Primary Care Clinicians: A Pilot Study

Multiple Facets of Compassion: The Impact of Social Dominance Orientation and Economic Systems Justification

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