Qualitative and psychometric data on self-compassion and psychology internship experience

This dataset contains qualitative and psychometric data collected in a study investigating the relationship between self-compassion and the emotional experience of psychology internships. Participants were undergraduate psychology students engaged in supervised internships, who completed the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) and answered five open-ended questions regarding their perceptions of internship-related experiences, including emotions, self-efficacy, stress, anxiety, learning, and time management.

Psychometric data include total and subscale scores of the Self-Compassion Scale, allowing the classification of participants into low, medium, and high levels of self-compassion. For the qualitative component, participants’ discursive responses were analyzed using content analysis procedures, following Bardin’s framework, with thematic coding supported by NVivo software. The dataset includes anonymized raw responses, coded qualitative material, and processed quantitative variables used to define analytical groups.

All data were collected online after informed consent and approval by a Brazilian Research Ethics Committee. Identifying information was removed to ensure participant confidentiality. This dataset is intended to support transparency, reproducibility, and secondary analyses related to self-compassion, emotional regulation, and professional training in psychology.