COMPASSIONATE AND SELF-IMAGE GOALS SCALE

COMPASSIONATE AND SELF-IMAGE GOALS SCALE
Researchers have our permission to use these measures in their research. For information about reliability and validity‚ see Crocker & Canevello‚ 2008‚ Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. If you have questions about how to use or think about the measures‚ feel free to contact us: Jennifer Crocker crocker.37@osu.edu or Amy Canevello acanevel@uncc.edu.
It is helpful to remember that people can have compassionate and self-image goals simultaneously; they are not opposite ends of a continuum. In addition‚ people can approach their most important goals with either a compassionate or a self-image goal orientation‚ or both. For example‚ when we asked a sample of incoming college freshmen about their most important academic goal for the semester‚ almost all of them mentioned a GPA they would like to receive. Yet‚ despite their shared overarching goal‚ these students differed in how much they had compassionate and self-image goals for academics. That is‚ people with compassionate and self-image goals don’t necessarily care about or do different things; rather‚ they approach their important goals with different motivational perspectives on the relation between the self and others‚ and with different intentions toward others