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Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire.

CERQ

What it measures
Cognitive coping / emotion-regulation strategies across 9 subscales: self-blame, acceptance, rumination, positive refocusing, refocus on planning, positive reappraisal, putting into perspective, catastrophizing, other-blame
Length and format
36 (4 per subscale); CERQ-short 18. 5-point frequency (almost never to almost always) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many languages (broadly validated internationally)
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
Garnefski, N., Kraaij, V., & Spinhoven, P. (2001). Negative life events, cognitive emotion regulation and emotional problems. Personality and Individual Differences, 30(8), 1311-1327.

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