Gutzweiler Raphael, Grüning David J
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Landau, Germany.
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Department of Survey Design & Methodology, Mannheim, Germany.
PLoS One. 2025 Jan 2;20(1):e0316007. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0316007. eCollection 2025.
Adaptive emotion regulation, involving the modulation of positive and negative emotions based on goals, is a crucial function for a person's mental health and general well-being. Factors influencing successful emotion regulation include beliefs about emotions, such as the controllability and usefulness of emotions. The Emotion Beliefs Questionnaire (EBQ) was developed to assess these beliefs and has shown promise in predicting emotion regulation and psychopathology across different countries. This study aims to advance EBQ's generalizability in measuring emotion beliefs by examining the scale's different validities for a developed German version. In a German sample of 348 respondents, we show the scale's factorial and broader construct validity as well as its factors' reliability. Notably, we demonstrate that the German EBQ is mostly strictly measurement invariant across central sociodemographic variables like age and gender. Interestingly, we also find the scale to be robust across different levels of other psychological constructs such as emotional reactivity and efficacy.
适应性情绪调节,即基于目标对积极和消极情绪进行调节,是一个人心理健康和总体幸福感的关键功能。影响成功情绪调节的因素包括对情绪的信念,例如情绪的可控性和有用性。情绪信念问卷(EBQ)就是为评估这些信念而编制的,并且已显示出在预测不同国家的情绪调节和精神病理学方面的前景。本研究旨在通过检验该量表德文版的不同效度,推进EBQ在测量情绪信念方面的通用性。在一个由348名受访者组成的德国样本中,我们展示了该量表的因子效度和更广泛的结构效度以及其因子的信度。值得注意的是,我们证明德国版EBQ在年龄和性别等核心社会人口统计学变量上大多具有严格的测量不变性。有趣的是,我们还发现该量表在诸如情绪反应性和效能等其他心理结构的不同水平上都很稳健。