Abstract
Emotion regulation has become an important topic in mental health and psychotherapy research. Skills supposingly relevant for adaptive responses towards emotions include the abilities to be consciously aware of emotions, identify and correctly label emotions, understand what has caused and maintains one’s present emotions, modify the intensity or duration of one's emotions, accept and tolerate undesired emotions, confront situations likely to cue negative emotions, and provide effective self-support when working to cope with challenging emotions. To economically assess these abilities, a self-report measure has been developed in German and validated in various studies. To facilitate the use of the measure in English speaking countries, we have developed and validated an English version of the Emotion Regulation Skills Questionnaire (ERSQ) in a student sample (n = 263) and a sample of individual clinical sample (n = 35). Findings from this study provide significant evidence for the reliability and validity of the ERSQ. Thus, the measure can be used to assess a broad range of important emotion regulation skills in an economic way.
Highlights
Emotion regulation has recently become a focal point in mental health and psychotherapy research [1,2,3] and has been increasingly incorporated into models of psychopathology [4,5,6,7]
The assessment of successful emotion regulation skills use: The Emotion Regulation Skills Questionnaire symptoms of mental disorders can be conceptualized as dysfunctional attempts to avoid aversive affective states even if this leads to undesired consequences in the long-term [9, 10]
This final version of the Emotion Regulation Skills Questionnaire (ERSQ) consists of 27 items and is based on the emotion regulation skills defined by the Adaptive Coping with Emotions (ACE) model [9]
Summary
Emotion regulation has recently become a focal point in mental health and psychotherapy research [1,2,3] and has been increasingly incorporated into models of psychopathology [4,5,6,7]. Deficits in effective emotion regulation are assumed to contribute to the escalation and perpetuation of undesired affective states and to the development and maintenance of affective (and affect-related somatic) symptoms of mental disorders. Longitudinal studies provide evidence, that deficits in emotion regulation are symptoms of mental disorders but are most likely risk and maintaining factors for mental health problems such as depression [1, 29,30,31,32], anxiety disorders [33, 34], borderline personality disorder [35, 36], eating disorders [37, 38], or alcohol dependence [39]
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