Compassionate Love: A Study of Validity and Reliability

This study investigated the validity and reliability of the turkish version of the compassionate love scale (cls; sprecher & fehr, 2005). the sample of study consists of 356 college students. results of language equivalency showed that the correlations between turkish and english forms ranged from 0,77 to 0,97. results of exploratory factor analysis showed that the 21 items loaded on one factor. the total variance explained was 36,47% and factor loadings ranged from 0,28 to 0,78. fit index values of the model were x^2=577,16, n=356, df=181, p=0,0000, rmsea= 0,079, nfi= 0,94, cfi= 0,96, rfi= 0,93, srmr= 0,063. the internal consistency reliability coefficient of the scale was found as 0,89 and the test-retest reliability coefficient was found as 0,82. also the corrected item- total correlations ranged from 0,28 to 0,70. these results demonstrate that this scale is a valid and reliable instrument.