A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Self-Compassion among Social Work Students
Keywords:
Self-compassion, Social work students, Confirmatory factor analysisAbstract
The purposes of this research were to study the elements of Self-compassion. Data were collected from 534 undergraduate social work students from 5 University in Thailand in the academic year 2016 using a 1-5 rating scale questionnaire with 40 question items , The questionnaire had reliability of 0.83
The data were analyzed with confirmatory factor analysis. The results result from Confirmatory Factor Analysis of models measuring the undergraduate students. The research results found that 1) There were 3 factors of Self-compassion of social work students, consisted of Self-kindness , Awareness of common humanity and Mindfulness. The Self-compassion model in accordance was fit with the empirical data with =1.52 df=1 p=.21 GFI=1.00 AGFI=0.99 CFI=1.00 RMSEA=0.03 SRMR=0.01 . Standardize factor loading between .65 and 0.83. All elements are statistically significant at 0.01 level. This proves that the models can explain, with standardized factor loading, Self-compassion in descending order.
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