A Reconsideration of the Self-Compassion Scale's Total Score:Self-Compassion versus Self-Criticism

The Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) is currently the only self-report instrument to measure self-compassion. The SCS is widely used despite the limited evidence for the scale's psychometric properties, with validation studies commonly performed in college students. The current study examined the factor structure, reliability, and construct validity of the SCS in a large representative sample from the community. The study was conducted in 1,736 persons, of whom 1,643 were included in the analyses. Besides the SCS, data was collected on positive and negative indicators of psychological functioning, as well as on rumination and neuroticism. Analyses included confirmatory factor analyses (CFA), exploratory factor analyses (EFA), and correlations. CFA showed that the SCS's proposed six-factor structure could not be replicated. EFA suggested a two-factor solution, formed by the positively and negatively formulated items respectively. Internal consistency was good for the two identified factors. The negative factor (i.e., sum score of the negatively formulated items) correlated moderately to strongly to negative affect, depressive symptoms, perceived stress, as well as to rumination and neuroticism. Compared to this negative factor, the positive factor (i.e., sum score of the positively formulated items) correlated weaker to these indicators, and relatively more strongly to positive affect. Results from this study do not justify the common use of the SCS total score as an overall indicator of self-compassion, and provide support for the idea, as also assumed by others, that it is important to make a distinction between self-compassion and self-criticism.</p

Effects of fragmentation on pollen and gene flow in insect-pollinated plant populations

Effects of fragmentation on pollen and gene flow in insect-pollinated plan Dataset of the fieldwork

Effects of fragmentation on pollen and gene flow in insect-pollinated plant populations

Effects of fragmentation on pollen and gene flow in insect-pollinated plan Dataset of the fieldwork

Replication Data for: Analyzing collaborative governance through social network analysis: a case study of River management along the Waal River in the Netherlands

Until recently, governmental organizations played a dominant and decisive role in natural resource management. However, an increasing number of studies indicate that this dominant role is developing towards a more facilitating role as equal partner to improve efficiency and create a leaner state. This approach is characterized by complex collaborative relationships between various actors and sectors on multiple levels. To understand this complexity in the field of environmental management, we conducted a social network analysis of floodplain management in the Dutch Rhine delta. We charted the current interorganizational relationships between 43 organizations involved in flood protection (blue network) and nature management (green network) and explored the consequences of abolishing the central actor in these networks. The discontinuation of this actor will decrease the connectedness of actors within the blue and green network and may therefore have a large impact on the exchange of ideas and decision-making processes. Furthermore, our research shows the dependence of non-governmental actors on the main governmental organizations. It seems that the Dutch governmental organizations still have a dominant and controlling role in floodplain management. This challenges the alleged shift from a dominant government towards collaborative governance and calls for detailed analysis of actual governance

Consumer sentiment regarding privacy on user generated content (UGC) services in the digital economy

One of the key changes in societal trends and lifestyles witnessed over the past few years has been the move on-line of many consumers and the way they have become increasingly sophisticated in their media consumption habits. Have these recent changes to consumer and commercial practices developed in such a way that consumers are (in)voluntarily signing away their fundamental right to privacy? This CONSENT project seeks to examine how consumer behaviour, and commercial practices are changing the role of consent in the processing of personal data. While consumer consent is a fundamental value on which the European market economy is based, the way consumer consent is obtained is questionable in popular user-generative/user-generated (UGC) online services (including sites like MySpace, YouTube and Facebook), whose commercial success depends to a large extent on the disclosure by their users of substantial amounts of personal data. (https://www.consent.law.muni.cz/) WP7: Quantitative measurement of end-user attitudes towards privacy WP8: Qualitative study of UGC users and UGC non-users attitudes towards privac

Effects of fragmentation on pollen and gene flow in insect-pollinated plant populations

Effects of fragmentation on pollen and gene flow in insect-pollinated plan Dataset of the fieldwork

Workshop 'Asset Management of Households in Europe, 1300-1800'

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Coding Legal Complexity

It is commonly assumed that the size of a country’s population has nothing to do with the structure of the law. The law of larger jurisdictions is supposedly just as simple or complex as the law of smaller jurisdictions. However, this hypothesis has never been empirically tested. This is surprising in view of the fact that a thriving field of research in linguistics deals with the relationship between language complexity and the size of the speech community. This research shows that grammatical complexity correlates negatively with the size of the speech community: the bigger the community, the simpler the grammar. The aim of this paper, an experiment in numerical comparative law, is to investigate whether the same is true for the law. The question that it seeks to answer is whether smaller jurisdictions have a more complex law than bigger jurisdictions and, if so, how this could be explained. The material is drawn from both constitutional law and private law

Preparation of research method: an application of dietary intake of industrially produced trans fatty acids and its effect on cholesterol levels in human blood Protocol: Citation Analysis

This document is the study protocol of a citation network analysis on the literature concerning industrially produced trans fatty acids and its effect on HDL- and LDL-cholesterol. The goal of this citation network analysis is to get insight in which determinants are driving citation and how selective citations influence the knowledge development. This protocol describes in detail the methodology that will be used to reach this goal

Spatial frequency discrimination: effects of age, reward, and practice

All files published under CCBY Program and data leading to the paper Spatial frequency discrimination: effects of age, reward, and practice, published in Plos One. Data package contains Neurobs Presentation program, SPSS datafile and SPSS analyses file. Please contact C. van den Boomen for access to data, or any questions