Deparment of Sciencies Education, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of La Rioja, 26500 Logroño, Spain.
Institute of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Neuchâtel, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 25;19(1):219. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19010219.
The Emotional Reactions to Challenging Behaviours Scale (ERCBS) was designed to evaluate the emotional states of support staff facing challenging behaviours from recipients. Employees working with People Exhibiting Intellectual Disability (PEIDs) are exposed to challenging behaviours. Exposure to challenging behaviours can affect the occupational well-being of these employees. It is thus important for investigators to have instruments assessing employees' emotional reactions to challenging behaviours reliably and validly. In this study, we translated the ERCBS into Spanish and inquired into the psychometric and structural properties of the adapted instrument. We relied on a sample of 232 employees working with PEIDs. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the ERCBS was best modelled as a two-factor measure involving a negative emotion factor and a positive emotion factor. The two factors were highly correlated (0.547), suggesting that a distinction between "emotional" and "non-emotional" individuals might be relevant when using the ERCBS. Alpha and omega reliabilities were satisfactory. ERCBS scores did not differ between men and women. ERCBS scores correlated negatively with participants' age and years of service with PEIDs. Our study suggests that the Spanish version of the ERCBS can be used to assess emotional reactions to challenging behaviours among employees working with PEIDs.
挑战性行为情绪反应量表（ERCBS）旨在评估面对智力障碍者（PEIDs）的挑战性行为的支持人员的情绪状态。与 PEIDs 一起工作的员工会面临挑战性行为。接触挑战性行为可能会影响这些员工的职业幸福感。因此，研究人员需要可靠且有效地评估员工对挑战性行为的情绪反应的工具。在这项研究中，我们将 ERCBS 翻译成西班牙语，并探讨了适应工具的心理测量学和结构特性。我们依赖于一个由 232 名与 PEIDs 一起工作的员工组成的样本。验证性因素分析表明，ERCBS 最好建模为两个因素，涉及负性情绪因素和正性情绪因素。这两个因素高度相关（0.547），这表明在使用 ERCBS 时，“情绪”和“非情绪”个体之间的区别可能是相关的。alpha 和 omega 信度令人满意。ERCBS 得分在男女之间没有差异。ERCBS 得分与参与者的年龄和与 PEIDs 一起工作的年限呈负相关。我们的研究表明，ERCBS 的西班牙语版本可用于评估与 PEIDs 一起工作的员工对挑战性行为的情绪反应。
