Spanish version of the Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale: evidence of validity and factorial invariance in Peru

• Published in: Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) N.J.), 2022-07, Vol.41 (7), p.4431-4446
• Main Authors: Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás, Vilca, Lindsey W., Plante, Thomas G., Carbajal-León, Carlos, Cabrera-Orosco, Isabel, García Cadena, Cirilo H., Reyes-Bossio, Mario
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Behavioral Science and Psychology; Demographic aspects; Empathy; Evaluation; Medical students; Mindfulness; Psychology; Social Sciences; Training; Validity; Women
• ISSN: 1046-1310; 1936-4733
• DOI: 10.1007/s12144-020-00949-0

The Santa Clara Brief Compassion Scale (SCBCS) is a brief measure of compassion, created in English and translated into Brazilian Portuguese. Nonetheless, to date, no study has assessed the psychometric evidence of its Spanish translation. This study examines the evidence of validity, reliability, and factorial invariance according to the gender of a Spanish version of the SCBCS. Participants included 273 Peruvian university students (50.9% women) with an average age of 21.23 years (SD = 3.24); divided into two groups of men and women to conduct the invariance factor analysis. Other measures of mindfulness, well-being, empathy, and anxiety were applied along with the SCBCS. The Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) indicated that a unifactorial model adjusted significantly to the data (χ2 = 12,127, df = 5, p  = .033, χ 2 /df = 2.42, CFI = .998, RMSEA = .072 [CI90% .019, .125]; SRMR = .030, WRMR = .551) and presented good reliability (α = .90 [95% .88–.92]; ω = .91). Moreover, correlations between the SCBCS and other measures of mindfulness ( r  = .53, p