Compassionate love is defined as awareness and understanding of one’s suffering, connecting with the distress, and being emotionally and cognitively moved to alleviate suffering. The Compassionate Love Scale for Humanity (CLS-H) was developed to measure compassion towards strangers who need help and/or are vulnerable. The present study aimed to develop an abbreviated version of the CLS-H using item response theory to provide a precise and non-redundant compassion measure for use in research and practice.
This subscale captures how individuals experience and express hope as a sustaining and centering virtue. It examines one’s ability to maintain optimism, perseverance, and trust...
This subscale captures how individuals apply reflective thinking, humility, and discernment in moral and personal decision-making. It emphasizes wisdom not as mere intelligence, but as...
The Character Climate Scale (CCS) is a 23-item instrument designed to measure the moral ecosystem of a university — the extent to which character, virtue,...