Clinical Psychology and Personality

Clinical Psychology and Personality

Validation of the Farsi Version of the Compassionate Love Scale for Teachers

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Fatemeh Almasi 1
omid shokri 2
Azadeh Sadeghi 3
1 Ph.D Student in Educational Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
3 M.A Student in Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology , Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran.
10.22070/cpap.2025.18981.1521
Abstract
Introduction: Positive effects of teacher-student relationships have been widely documented. However, fewer studies have explored the determinants of teacher-student relationships. This research aims to analyze the psychometric characteristics of the Farsi version of the Compassionate Love Scale for teachers– as a possible determinant of teacher-student relationships whose role has not yet been investigated.
Method: In this correlational study, 336 students (233 female and 103 male) who were selected using the convenience sampling method, were answered the Compassionate Love Scale for Teachers (CLST) (Virat et al., 2020) and the Psychological Capital Questionnaire- Teacher Version (PCQ-TV) ( Luthans et al., 2007).
Results: The results of the principal components analysis showed that the measurement model of compassionate love scale for teachers consists of five factors: sacrifice, sensitivity, loving feelings, caring and empathy. In addition, the results related to the correlation between multiple dimensions of compassionate love with aspects of psychological capital including self-efficacy, hope, resilience and optimism also supported the convergent validity of the scale. Finally, in this research, the internal consistency coefficients of the subscales of sacrifice, sensitivity, loving feelings, caring and empathy were obtained as 0.80, 0.74, 0.80, 0.76 and 0.76, respectively.
Discussion and conclusion: In sum, the results of this research, on the one hand, by emphasizing the multifaceted nature of the structure of compassionate friendship, supported the underlying theoretical origin of that concept among teachers, and on the other hand, the correlation of that existing structure with the dimensions of teachers' psychological capital showed that the enrichment of teachers' psychological capital is considered one of the important correlates of compassionate friendship- as an individual determination to create professional ethics in teachers.
Keywords
Compassionate love
validity
reliability
teacher-student relationship
loving feelings
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