Self Compassion Test – The Progressive CIO

This is a self-contained, offline version of Kristin Neff’s 26-item Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) test. The official Self-Compassion site states that the SCS may be used for research or other use and publishes the scoring key. Original resources: Self-Compassion Test and Researcher Scales Page.

Source: Kristin Neff, Ph.D., Self-Compassion Scale (SCS), originally published in Neff, K. D. (2003), Self and Identity, 2, 223–250.

This offline test is for personal assessment/record-keeping and is not a diagnosis or clinical instrument.

Private by design: this test makes no network requests and sends your answers nowhere. Everything is calculated in your browser.

Rate how often you typically behave in each way.

1Almost Never

2Occasionally

3About Half of the Time

4Fairly Often

5Almost Always

Please answer all 26 items before calculating your score.

Your results

– / 5

The overall score is the average of the six subscale means after reverse-scoring Self-Judgment, Isolation, and Over-identification, following the published scoring key.

Positive self-responding

Self-Kindness

–

Higher is more supportive.

Common Humanity

–

Higher is more supportive.

Mindfulness

–

Higher is more supportive.

Negative self-responding

Self-Judgment

–

Raw score; lower is more supportive.

Isolation

–

Raw score; lower is more supportive.

Over-identification

–

Raw score; lower is more supportive.

Scoring details

Positive self-responding: – / 5 (mean of Self-Kindness, Common Humanity, Mindfulness).

Negative self-responding: – / 5 (raw mean of Self-Judgment, Isolation, Over-identification; higher means more negative self-responding).

For the overall score, negative subscales are reversed using 1↔5, 2↔4, 3↔3.