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Professional Quality of Life Scale

The ProQOL is a 30-item self-report instrument measuring both negative (compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress) and positive (compassion satisfaction) dimensions of occupational wellbeing in helping professionals. Developed by Stamm in 2005, the ProQOL conceptualizes professional quality of life holistically—capturing not only the burden of helping work but also its rewards and meaning. The scale is widely used in occupational health research, organizational assessment, and intervention evaluation across healthcare, mental health, social services, and disaster response fields.

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Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL) / Compassion Fatigue Scale
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / trauma-psychology
  • Stamm, B. H. (2010). The Concise ProQOL Manual (2nd ed.). ProQOL.org. · URL
  • Stamm, B. H. (2005). The ProQOL: A tool to measure compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction. In C. A. Figley (Ed.), Treating compassion fatigue (pp. 29-48). Brunner-Routledge. · URL
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