Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Psychol Assess. 2020 Aug;32(8):796-802. doi: 10.1037/pas0000827. Epub 2020 Apr 20.
Research on emotion regulation (ER) strategies has often relied on trait self-report measures, where individuals retrospectively report their tendency to engage in a specific strategy. Although this method is convenient and useful in many clinical and research settings, it is subject to a number of response and memory biases and may not accurately reflect ER as it is naturalistically employed in daily life. We examined the ecological validity of 10 self-report measures of ER strategies (i.e., acceptance, behavioral avoidance, experiential avoidance, expressive suppression, procrastination, reappraisal, reflection, rumination, savoring, social support) with their reported daily use in intensive longitudinal designs in two samples (109 students, 135 treatment-seeking adults). Zero-order correlations revealed convergence between most trait measures and their daily ER strategy counterparts. However, analyses evaluating the specificity of trait measures in their associations with daily ER strategies (both zero-order and multivariate) did not support trait measures' discriminant validity. Rather, correlations between trait measures and factors of the between-person variance in daily ER strategies suggest that most ER trait measures may reflect broader tendencies to use or not use avoidance strategies in daily life. Implications for research using trait measures of ER strategies and recommendations for ER strategy assessment are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
情绪调节（ER）策略的研究往往依赖于特质自我报告测量，个体回顾性地报告他们倾向于使用特定策略的倾向。虽然这种方法在许多临床和研究环境中既方便又有用，但它受到许多反应和记忆偏差的影响，并且可能无法准确反映日常生活中自然使用的 ER。我们通过两个样本（109 名学生，135 名寻求治疗的成年人）的密集纵向设计，考察了 10 种自我报告的 ER 策略（即接受、行为回避、体验回避、表达抑制、拖延、重新评价、反思、沉思、品味、社会支持）的生态有效性及其在报告中的日常使用情况。零阶相关显示，大多数特质测量与日常 ER 策略测量之间存在一致性。然而，分析评估特质测量在与日常 ER 策略的关联中的区分效度（零阶和多元），并不支持特质测量的区分效度。相反，特质测量与日常 ER 策略个体间差异因素之间的相关性表明，大多数 ER 特质测量可能反映了在日常生活中更广泛地使用或不使用回避策略的倾向。讨论了使用 ER 策略特质测量的研究的意义和 ER 策略评估的建议。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。
