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The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire-Short Form (ERQ-S): Psychometric properties in a clinical sample
Johannes B Heekerens1, David A Preece2, James J Gross3
1Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, USA; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
Background:
Emotion regulation is essential for healthy affective functioning. The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross and John, 2003) has been the most widely used measure of emotion regulation, and recently a 6-item short form was introduced for time-limited settings, the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire-Short Form (ERQ-S; Preece et al., 2023). It is designed to measure habitual use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. We evaluated the psychometric performance of the ERQ-S in a clinical sample.
Methods:
531 individuals with various mental health diagnoses completed the ERQ-S and other psychometric measures of clinically-relevant constructs.
Results:
The ERQ-S demonstrated a theoretically congruent two-factor structure, good internal consistency, and expected patterns of associations with other constructs, supporting its validity.
Conclusions:
Our data suggest the ERQ-S exhibits strong psychometric properties in clinical populations. Its brevity makes it a practical tool for emotion regulation assessments in time-limited settings.
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