The original Compassion Scale (Pommier, 2011) tested general self-reported compassionate love, without specifying a target group. I created these adapted versions of the scale in order to assess compassionate love toward in-group members and out-group members separately, while retaining the original facet structure.

These scales were developed for use in our line of research on the associations between religious/spiritual practices and compassionate love. The scales were constructed after reviewing the psychological and religious studies literature and collecting dozens of items from various scales measuring religious/spiritual practices, mostly from Judeo-Christian and other monotheistic religious traditions. The objective in constructing these scales was to assess for the religious/spiritual practices people in the U.S. regularly engage in, casting as wide a net as possible, while recognizing that our lab's participants have a largely Christian background.

This scale was designed to quickly assess a university student’s current perception of their career preparedness. It was developed for use in an Honor’s program evaluation.