The Development and Validation of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-8

Providing Respondents with a Uniform Context That Elicits Thinking About Situations Requiring Emotion Regulation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21352018
AutoresFrancesca Penner (0000-0002-8971-790X, University of Houston), Lynne Steinberg (0000-0002-3265-1778, University of Houston, autor de correspondencia), Codi Sharp (0000-0001-8349-4701, University of Houston)
Año2023
Volumen105
Número5
Páginas657-666
Fecha de publicación2023-09-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Personality Assessment (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-3891 • E-ISSN: 1532-7752
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00223891.2022.2133722
PMID36306434
OpenAlexW4307581162
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas53

Emotion regulation difficulties are associated with a range of psychological disorders. A widely used measure of emotion regulation is the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-36). There are also three shortened DERS versions. Consistent with current efforts to build very brief versions of measures, the aim of this research is to develop a briefer DERS and evaluate its construct validity. Study 1 uses IRT methods coupled with content considerations to develop a briefer unidimensional DERS. Previous attempts to shorten the DERS have not considered how frame of reference may influence responses to items. The new DERS-8 includes only items prefaced with the phrase "When I'm upset," to provide respondents with a uniform context that elicits thinking about situations requiring regulation of negative emotion; answers to items are more likely to represent affect, thought, and actions in response to such situations. Study 2 showed that the DERS-8 performed well in an IRT analysis among adolescents with psychiatric disorders and showed similar group differences, sensitivity to change, and correlations with other variables compared to existing DERS versions, in both healthy adult and clinical adolescent samples. The DERS-8 offers a very brief unidimensional measure of difficulties in emotion regulation for adolescents and adults

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