Clinical Psychology and Personality

Clinical Psychology and Personality

Psychometric Analysis of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire-Short Form

Document Type : Original Article

Author
shokoufeh mousavi
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. ,
10.22070/cpap.2025.18684.1481
Abstract
Introduction: Emotion regulation plays an important role in affective functioning. One of the most used tools for measuring emotion regulation strategies is the emotion regulation questionnaire, which measures the two strategies of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. This research was conducted with the aim of psychometric analysis of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire- Short Form.
Method: In this descriptive survey research, 322 undergraduate students of Esfahan University (166 men and 156 women) were selected using available sampling method. Students responded to the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire-Short Form (Preece, Petrova, Mehta & Gross, 2023), the Emotion Cognition Regulation Questionnaire (Garnefski, Kraaij & Spinhoven, 2001) and the Stress Appraisal Measure (Rowley, Roesch, Jurica & Vaughn, 2005).
Results: While Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) confirmed the 2-factor structure of the ERQ-S, a multi-group CFA supported the structure as invariant across genders. Besides, the Cronbach's alpha result showed that the scales was internally consistent. Also, the results related to the correlation between strategies of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression with cognitive appraisals and with adaptive/maladaptive emotion cognitive regulation strategies provided sufficient evidence in defense of the criterion and concurrent validity of the ERQ-S, respectively.
Discussion and conclusion: In sum, the findings of this research, consistent with the original version of the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire, emphasized the sound of the underlying theoretical foundation of this questionnaire and its cross-gender technical adequacy through the repetition of the factor structure consisting of the two dimensions of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression.
Keywords
Emotion regulation questionnaire
psychometric properties
sex invariance
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