Preece David A, Petrova Kate, Mehta Ashish, Gross James J
Curtin University, Curtin enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Australia; The University of Western Australia, School of Psychological Science, Australia.
Stanford University, Department of Psychology, USA.
J Affect Disord. 2023 Nov 1;340:855-861. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.08.076. Epub 2023 Aug 18.
Emotion regulation plays a crucial role in affective functioning. One of the most commonly used measures of emotion regulation is the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), a 10-item self-report measure assessing frequency of use of two common emotion regulation strategies: cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. In this study, we aimed to optimize the utility of the ERQ for time-pressured settings by introducing and validating a 6-item short form called the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire-Short Form (ERQ-S).
General community (N = 508) and college student (N = 245) samples from the United States completed online surveys containing a range of psychometric self-report measures. For each sample, we examined the factor structure, internal consistency, and concurrent validity of the ERQ-S.
Our confirmatory factor analyses supported the intended 2-factor structure of the ERQ-S (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression factors), with all items loading well on their intended factor in both samples. As expected, the ERQ-S correlated highly with the ERQ. A profile of low cognitive reappraisal use and high expressive suppression use on the ERQ-S was significantly associated with higher levels of emotion regulation difficulties, alexithymia, and affective symptoms.
We did not examine psychometric performance in a clinical sample, or other cultural groups outside the US. All concurrent validity markers were self-report questionnaires.
Our data suggest that the ERQ-S successfully retains the psychometric strengths of the ERQ. The shorter format of the ERQ-S should therefore help to optimize the measurement of emotion regulation in time-pressured settings.
情绪调节在情感功能中起着至关重要的作用。情绪调节最常用的测量方法之一是情绪调节问卷（ERQ），这是一种包含10个条目的自我报告测量工具，用于评估两种常见情绪调节策略的使用频率：认知重评和表达抑制。在本研究中，我们旨在通过引入并验证一种名为情绪调节问卷简版（ERQ-S）的6个条目简版来优化ERQ在时间紧迫情况下的效用。
来自美国的普通社区样本（N = 508）和大学生样本（N = 245）完成了包含一系列心理测量自我报告测量工具的在线调查。对于每个样本，我们检验了ERQ-S的因子结构、内部一致性和同时效度。
我们的验证性因子分析支持了ERQ-S预期的两因子结构（认知重评和表达抑制因子），两个样本中的所有条目在其预期因子上的载荷都很好。正如预期的那样，ERQ-S与ERQ高度相关。ERQ-S上低认知重评使用和高表达抑制使用的特征与更高水平的情绪调节困难、述情障碍和情感症状显著相关。
我们没有在临床样本或美国以外的其他文化群体中检验心理测量性能。所有同时效度指标均为自我报告问卷。
我们的数据表明，ERQ-S成功保留了ERQ的心理测量优势。因此，ERQ-S较短的形式应有助于优化在时间紧迫情况下情绪调节的测量。
