Emotion Regulation Questionnaire.
ERQ
- What it measures
- Habitual use of two emotion-regulation strategies: Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression
- Length and format
- 10 (6 reappraisal + 4 suppression). 7-pt Likert (strongly disagree - strongly agree) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into 20+ languages (ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, NL, ZH, JA, AR, RU, etc.); one of the most-translated emotion-regulation measures; community norms across many countries
- 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
- Gross, J. J., & John, O. P. (2003). Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes. JPSP, 85(2), 348-362. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.85.2.348
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