Is Self-Compassion Universal? Support for the Measurement Invariance of the Self-Compassion Scale Across Populations

= 10,997). Multigroup analyses revealed evidence for the configural, weak, strong, strict, and latent variance-covariance of the bifactor exploratory structural equation modeling operationalization of the SCS across different groups. These findings suggest that the SCS provides an assessment of self-compassion that is psychometrically equivalent across groups. However, findings comparing latent mean invariance found that levels of self-compassion differed across groups.