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This document provides information on scoring and interpreting several psychological scales: 1) The Self-Compassion Scale includes 6 subscales and provides instructions on reverse scoring items and computing a total mean score between 1 and 5. There are no clinical cutoffs but scores can be considered low, moderate, or high. 2) The Satisfaction With Life Scale ranges from 5-35, with 20 as neutral. Scores below 9 indicate extreme dissatisfaction and above 31 indicate extreme satisfaction. 3) The New General Self-Efficacy Scale involves averaging responses to 8 items rated on a scale of 1 to 5. Higher scores indicate greater self-efficacy.

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Test Score Interpretations

This document provides information on scoring and interpreting several psychological scales: 1) The Self-Compassion Scale includes 6 subscales and provides instructions on reverse scoring items and computing a total mean score between 1 and 5. There are no clinical cutoffs but scores can be considered low, moderate, or high. 2) The Satisfaction With Life Scale ranges from 5-35, with 20 as neutral. Scores below 9 indicate extreme dissatisfaction and above 31 indicate extreme satisfaction. 3) The New General Self-Efficacy Scale involves averaging responses to 8 items rated on a scale of 1 to 5. Higher scores indicate greater self-efficacy.

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Test Score Interpretation

Self-Compassion:

SCORING KEY

Self-Kindness Items: 2, 6 Self-Judgment Items (Reverse Scored): 11, 12 Common


Humanity Items: 5, 10 Isolation Items (Reverse Scored): 4, 8 Mindfulness Items: 3, 7
Over-identification Items (Reverse Scored): 1, 9

To reverse score items (1=5, 2=4, 3=3, 4=2, 5=1).

To compute a total self-compassion score, first reverse score the negative subscale
items – self judgment, isolation, and over-identification. Then take the mean of each
subscale, and compute a total mean (the average of the six subscale means).

Note that these scoring procedures are slightly different than that used in the original
scale article (Raes et al., 2011), in which items were totaled rather than averaged.
However, it is easier to interpret the scores of the total mean is used and most
researchers currently report total SCS-SF scores on a five-point scale

NORMS AND SCORE SIGNIFICANCE

There are no clinical norms or scores which indicate that an individual is high or low in
self-compassion. Rather, scores are mainly used in a comparative manner to examine
outcomes for people scoring higher or lower in self-compassion. As an ad hoc rubric,
however, you can consider scores 1.0- 2.49 to be low, between 2.5-3.5 to be moderate,
and 3.51-5.0 to be high. When trying to determine whether self-compassion levels are
high or low relevant to a particular sample, some researchers use a median split.
Life Satisfaction:

The Scale

Below are five statements that you may agree or disagree with. Using the 1 – 7 scale
below, indicate your agreement with each item by placing the appropriate number on
the line preceding that item. Please be open and honest in your responding.

Scoring

A total score is calculated by adding up the scores for each item. The possible range of
scores is 5-35, with a score of 20 representing a neutral point on the scale. Scores
between 5-9 indicate the respondent is extremely dissatisfied with life, whereas scores
between 31-35 indicate the respondent is extremely satisfied. The following chart
provides cutoff scores to be used as benchmarks.
New General Self-Efficacy Scale

This survey accompanies a measure in the SPARQTools.org Measuring Mobility toolkit,


which provides practitioners curated instruments for assessing mobility from poverty
and tools for selecting the most appropriate measures for their programs.

Age: Adult
Duration: < 3 minutes
Reading Level: 6th-8th grade
Number of items: 8
Answer Format: 1 = strongly disagree; 2 = disagree; 3 = neither agree nor disagree; 4
= agree; 5 = strongly agree.

Scoring:
To calculate the total score for each participant, take the average rating of the items by
adding respondents’ answers to each item and dividing this sum by the total number of
items (8).

Sources:
Chen, G., Gully, S. M., & Eden, D. (2001). Validation of a new general self-efficacy
scale. Organizational research methods, 4(1), 62-83.

Instructions: Participants are told that (a) general self-efficacy relates to “one’s
estimate of one’s overall ability to perform successfully in a wide variety of achievement
situations, or to how confident one is that she or he can perform effectively across
different tasks and situations,” and (b) self-esteem relates to “the overall affective
evaluation of one’s own worth, value, or importance, or to how one feels about oneself
as a person.”

Instructions: Please circle your answer below.

1. I will be able to achieve most of the goals that I set for myself.

Strongly Disagree Neither agree Agree Strongly agree


disagree nor disagree

2. When facing difficult tasks, I am certain that I will accomplish them.

Strongly Disagree Neither agree Agree Strongly agree


disagree nor disagree

3. In general, I think that I can obtain outcomes that are important to me.

Strongly Disagree Neither agree Agree Strongly agree


disagree nor disagree

4. I believe I can succeed at most any endeavor to which I set my mind.

Strongly Disagree Neither agree Agree Strongly agree


disagree nor disagree

5. I will be able to successfully overcome many challenges.

Strongly Disagree Neither agree Agree Strongly agree


disagree nor disagree

6. I am confident that I can perform effectively on many different tasks.

Strongly Disagree Neither agree Agree Strongly agree


disagree nor disagree

7. Compared to other people, I can do most tasks very well.

Strongly Disagree Neither agree Agree Strongly agree


disagree nor disagree

8. Even when things are tough, I can perform quite well.

Strongly Disagree Neither agree Agree Strongly agree


disagree nor disagree

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