Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale.
DERS
- What it measures
- Difficulties in emotion regulation - 6 subscales: Nonacceptance, Goals (difficulty with goal-directed behaviour), Impulse, Awareness, Strategies, Clarity + total
- Length and format
- 36 (full); DERS-16 and DERS-18 and DERS-SF short forms. 5-pt frequency (almost never - almost always) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages (ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, ZH, Turkish, Persian, Greek, etc.); among the most-translated ER measures
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Gratz, K. L., & Roemer, L. (2004). Multidimensional assessment of emotion regulation and dysregulation: DERS. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 26(1), 41-54. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOBA.0000007455.08539.94
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