Psychometric characteristics self-compassion scale among students

Emotional balance is a strategy for creating adaptive and care behaviors that can lead to a significant impact on the psychological well-being and health students. This study aimed to investigate the validity, reliability and factor analysis of the self-compassion scale Neff (2003) among undergraduates student. In this descriptive survey using a multistage cluster sampling, a random sample 353 patients (182 male and 171 female) students were chosen. Exploratory factor analysis revealed six factors of this scale with Extraction Sums of Squared Loadings (75/11) which this scale shows the construct validity. Cronbach's alpha coefficient and split-half reliability of this construct were 0/87 and 0/76 respectively. Correlations between the subscales represent the convergence validity. The results show that the Persian version this scale has good reliability and validity among undergraduate students to measure these features can be used in psychological research.