Validity and reliability of Persian version of the Emotion Regulation Skills Questionnaire

Objectives: Emotion Regulation Skill Questionnaire (ERSQ) is a self- report scale that assesses individual differences in emotion regulation skills. Despite the extensive use of this questionnaire, there is no study about psychometric properties of the Persian version of ERSQ. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the psychometric properties of ERSQ in Iranian population.Method: using quota sampling, we asked a community sample of 427 to respond to ERSQ, Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale and Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. SPSS (Version 23) was used for data analysis. For data analysis, exploratory factor analysis and Pearson correlation coefficient were used.Results: Exploratory factor analysis yielded 8 factors of attention to feelings, bodily perception of sensations, clarity, understanding of feeling, acceptance and tolerance of feeling, readiness to confront unwanted emotions, self-support and modification. These factors accounted for 53.27% of the total variance. Alpha Coefficients for attention to feelings, bodily perception of sensations, clarity, understanding of feeling, acceptance and tolerance of feeling, readiness to confront unwanted emotions, self-support and modification were in the range of 0.67 to 0.88. The results of convergent validity revealed that reappraisal, observing, describing, act aware, Non-judging and Non-reacting had significant positive correlation with ERSQ. Also, nonacceptance of emotional responses, difficulties engaging in goal directed behavior, impulse control difficulties, Lack of emotional awareness, Limited access to emotion regulation strategies and Lack of emotional clarity had significant negative correlation with ERSQ.Conclusions: emotional regulation skills questionnaire has acceptable psychometric properties and can be used in Iranian population. However, further studies are needed to evaluate other aspects of the ERSQ like CFA.

Keywords:

Validity , Reliability , Exploratory factor analysis , Emotion Regulation Skill Questionnaire (ERSQ)