Emotion Regulation of Others and Self.

EROS

What it measures

affect-improving and affect-worsening strategies used to regulate one's own emotions (intrinsic) and other people's emotions (extrinsic) - a 2x2 (target x direction) framework

Length and format

24 (four subscales of 6 items: intrinsic/extrinsic affect-improving and affect-worsening, each 3 cognitive + 3 behavioural). frequency/agreement Likert; four subscale scores (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

several incl. ES, ZH, FR; used in workplace and social emotion-regulation research

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

Niven, K., Totterdell, P., Stride, C. B., & Holman, D. (2011). Emotion Regulation of Others and Self (EROS): The development and validation of a new individual difference measure. Current Psychology, 30(1), 53-73.