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Licensed SCS-26 items · Seven full readings free
Take the full 26-item SCS. Read six part means, reverse scoring and the overall mean with complete free guides. Chinese is an unvalidated working translation.
26 questions · about 7 minutes · no signup
Think about how you typically act towards yourself in difficult times. Indicate how often you behave in each stated manner, from 1 — Almost never to 5 — Almost always. Values 2, 3 and 4 are intermediate choices without extra named anchors. Answer what reflects your experience, not what you think it should be. The separate prefer-not-to-answer choice is unscored; it withholds that part and the overall mean. Other complete parts remain available. The Chinese wording is a new unvalidated FermatMind working translation. Seven minutes is an editorial estimate; there is no timer.
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This uses Kristin Neff’s full 26-item Self-Compassion Scale (2003) with permission and citation. It keeps all six parts visible and follows the current official scoring key: reverse 13 items, compute six unrounded part means, then average those six. The complete report is free, without signup, personality stages, clinical norms or career predictions. The English source scale and the new working Chinese wording have different evidence: this translation has not been validated.
Five items each assess self-kindness and self-judgment; the other four parts have four each. Reverse the 13 items in the three negative parts as 6 minus response, calculate the six unrounded means and average them. This is not the direct mean of 26 responses. Negative parts show both raw means and reversed means with explicit labels. The final display rounds to two decimals, not before averaging.
Equal or nearby means do not identify a winning trait, prove that two experiences are equivalent or establish a meaningful change. Compare the situations behind your own answers privately, without ranking people. One skipped answer withholds that part and the overall mean; other fully answered parts still have means. No skipped item is zero, and no missing answer is estimated. This strict completeness rule is a website policy, not a validated missing-data threshold.
Read the overall guide and all six component guides at any score, including insufficient information. They contain examples and voluntary observations, not a treatment plan or a promise of improvement. No informal cutoffs, percentiles, person-worth grades or hiring recommendations are applied. You may finish here, or separately choose a different assessment for a different question.
Seven complete public guides explain the overall mean and six components, without stages, winners or private attempts. The full 26-item SCS first computes six unrounded part means, then averages them. Negative parts label both raw and reversed directions. A skip withholds its part and the overall mean; other complete parts remain readable. All guides stay public and free. Chinese is a new unvalidated working translation.
The overall mean describes responses across six parts of the full 26-item SCS. Positive parts use the chosen values; self-judgment, isolation and over-identification are reversed first. A larger mean reflects more compassionate responding as defined by these items, without assigning a stage, percentile or diagnosis.
These five items concern offering yourself care, warmth, tolerance and patience while experiencing pain or noticing disliked aspects of yourself. They do not ask whether you approve of every action. Self-kindness can coexist with admitting an error and taking responsibility. The scale reads your reported frequency of these responses, without observing how you actually behave under pressure.
These five items ask about disapproval, impatience, harshness, putting yourself down and emotional coldness toward yourself. They concern responses to perceived flaws or suffering, rather than the usefulness of a specific piece of feedback. Noticing an error is different from condemning yourself for having one. The items cannot establish a history of mistreatment or diagnose a problem.
These four items ask whether, during difficulty, you can place inadequacy and failure within a broader human experience. They concern remembering that other people also struggle, without claiming that everyone has the same resources, risks or history. This is a way of relating to a difficult experience; it does not measure social popularity, the size of a support network or whether your circumstances are fair.
These four items concern feeling separate, imagining others are happier or have an easier time, and feeling alone in failure. They describe an internal response during difficulty. They do not count friends, measure the time spent alone or establish whether real social exclusion is occurring. A person with many contacts can feel isolated, while being physically alone does not by itself imply the responses described here.
These four SCS items concern balanced awareness, keeping perspective and approaching feelings with curiosity and openness during difficulty. Here mindfulness is this specific self-report part, not a test of meditation skill, concentration span or a complete measure of mindfulness in daily life. Keeping perspective does not require feeling calm, suppressing emotion or denying the seriousness of an event.
These four items ask about fixation on what is wrong, being consumed by inadequacy, getting carried away by feelings and magnifying a painful event. The term names a component of the SCS, not a diagnosis or proof that your reaction is unreasonable. The scale has no independent view of how serious the event was and does not measure the objective size of the problem.
The full 26-item SCS attributed to Neff (2003), using the current linked official scoring key. It is not the short form or a state scale. Chinese is a new unvalidated working translation.
The current source key averages the six unrounded part means after reversal. The parts have different item counts, so averaging 26 items would give them unequal weight.
A larger raw mean means more of the named negative response. The reversed mean equals 6 minus the raw mean and goes into the overall calculation. Larger reversed values therefore mean less of that response.
That part and the overall mean are withheld; other fully answered parts keep their means. Missing is not zero and is not imputed. This is the website’s strict completeness policy, not a validated missing-data threshold.
The official FAQ states that there are no formal norms. This edition does not adopt informal high/low bands, diagnoses, percentiles or labels about personal worth.
All 26 items and seven complete public guides are free, without signup. Optional progress stays in this tab for at most 24 hours and clears on completion or reset. Copying shares only a public title and link.
This uses the 26-item Self-Compassion Scale, with attribution to Neff (2003), and the current official mean-of-six-means scoring key. The permission letter allows use for any purpose with citation; the official FAQ permits translation. This is copyrighted work used under that permission, not public-domain material. The Chinese items are a new FermatMind working translation, without empirical validation or established cross-language equivalence. Results are for voluntary adult self-reflection, without diagnosis, employment selection or a claim to measure personal worth.
Neff (2003) and current official materials supply the full 26 English items, permission and reverse keys. Chinese is a new FermatMind working translation without empirical validation or established language equivalence. Six part means are equally weighted; no informal high/low bands or diagnoses are applied.
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Source question / scoring / report versions: scs26_neff2003_official_en_fm_zh_working_v1 / scs26_equal6_unrounded_complete26_rational120_v1 / fm_scs26_seven_full_readings_v1