Psychometric Properties of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) and Its Relationship with Depression, Anxiety and Stress among Students in Tehran

Maryam Mirzaee

doi:10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n2s2p54

Abstract

The individuals use various coping strategies to cope with stress. Selection of suitable coping strategies against mental pressures can reduce effect of pressures on mental health, resulting in the person’s more adjustment. With regard to what mentioned above, the present research has been conducted aiming at identifying psychometric properties including validity and normalization of The Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ) among students, so that overview of these properties requires performing factor analysis. A sample group with sample size (485) has been selected among the statistical population based on the common methods in factor analysis research using cluster sampling. 85 individuals have been discarded among them due to lack of collaboration and as the result a sample group with sample size (400) among students in Tehran city have been undergone study. The Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ) as the instrument used in the present research measures defensive behavior in daily life. According to the results from this research, there is a significant relationship between psychometric properties of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) and its relationship with depression, anxiety and stress among students in Tehran. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n2s2p54

Highlights

A group of experts has called stress as the common disease of century
Correlation coefficient of each question with total score indicates that such questionnaire enjoys a proper internal consistency, ensured on the results from factor analysis
In a research by Heidari Nasab et al(2007), this questionnaire was examined and normalized that the findings related to the validity specified that Iranian Iranian version of questionnaire likewise original version enjoys favorable validity

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Introduction

A group of experts has called stress as the common disease of century. This age might be perhaps the age of stress and mental pressures, at which the man has exposed to stressful factors more than any other time and enclosed with numerous problems from any side; in a world filled with commotion, how can avoid mental pressures or cope with them? How can detect mental pressure and its complications? How can cope with stress before reaching to acute stages and suppress it. The individuals with low distress tolerance know emotion intolerable and fail to handle their distress These individuals do not accept emotion and feel embarrassed of this emotion, because they underestimate the ability to cope with emotions. It should be noted that if these individuals fail to relieve these emotions, all their attention to this emotion will be distressed and their performance will reduce (Simons and Gahr, 2005). Regardless of this point that to which extent we can cope with problems, situations will raise in life which we inevitably feel mental pressure. Mild emotional arousal keeps the person alert during his work process; while the people’s life comes with Silence and calmness, they feel ill and seek exciting things

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