Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Department of Educational Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Fam Process. 2024 Sep;63(3):1231-1248. doi: 10.1111/famp.12956. Epub 2024 Jan 23.
A new measure for assessing an individual's perception of the dyadic difficulties in emotion regulation with a romantic partner is tested. The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Dyadic (DERS-D) was obtained by adapting some items of the previous Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) to the dyadic context. The scale was administered both to a sample of university students (N = 835) to explore its factorial structure and to a convenience sample (N = 833) together with the DERS, the DERS-Positive, the Emotion Beliefs Questionnaire (EBQ), and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) to confirm the factorial structure and to explore its construct validity. Results highlight that DERS-D measures two distinct features, namely the lack of dyadic awareness and the lack of dyadic clarity, and that configural invariance across genders was met. DERS-D subscales' internal consistency was high. The correlations between the DERS-D and the other measures demonstrated its construct and criterion validity. The promising nature of these results is discussed in light of the potential clinical and empirical uses of the DERS-D.
一项用于评估个体对与伴侣情绪调节双元困难的感知的新测量工具正在接受检验。情感调节困难量表-双元(DERS-D)通过将先前情感调节困难量表(DERS)的一些项目改编为双元情境而获得。该量表被施用于一组大学生样本(N=835),以探索其因子结构,以及一个方便样本(N=833),同时还施测了 DERS、DERS-阳性、情绪信念问卷(EBQ)和情绪调节问卷(ERQ),以确认其因子结构并探索其构念效度。结果表明,DERS-D 测量了两个不同的特征,即缺乏双元意识和缺乏双元清晰度,并且满足了性别之间的组态不变性。DERS-D 分量表的内部一致性很高。DERS-D 与其他测量工具之间的相关性表明了其构念和效标效度。这些结果的前景在考虑到 DERS-D 的潜在临床和实证用途的情况下进行了讨论。