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Emotional and social intelligence

Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire.

IERQ

What it measures
using other people to regulate one's own emotions - Enhancing Positive Affect, Perspective Taking, Soothing, and Social Modeling
Length and format
20 (4 factors x 5 items). 5-point (1 not true for me at all to 5 extremely true for me); four subscale sums (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
several incl. IT, ZH, TR, ES, FA; internationally adopted
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
Hofmann, S. G., Carpenter, J. K., & Curtiss, J. (2016). Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (IERQ): Scale development and psychometric characteristics. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 40(3), 341-356.

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