The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)

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Instrument Overview

The ERQ (Gross & John, 2003) comprises 10 items assessing the ER strategies of CR (6 items) and ES (4 items). Items are rated on a 7-point Likert-type response scale. Higher scores on each scale indicate greater use of the corresponding ER strategy. Subscore(s): Cognitive Reappraisal, Expressive Suppression, Emotion Regulation

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Organization

Student Well-Being Category

American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.

Content

Grades
Post secondary
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Self Management ; Social Awareness ; Cognitive Reappraisal ; Expressive Suppression ; Emotion Regulation
Languages
English
Respondent
Student

Administration Information

Length
10 items
Administration
Paper

Access and Use

Contact

gross@stanford.edu
(650) 723-1281

Open Access
Yes
Setting
Undefined

Psychometrics (additional guidance)

Psychometric References

Ioannidis, C. A., &; Siegling, A. B. (2015). Criterion and incremental validity of the emotion regulation questionnaire. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00247 Melka, S. E., Lancaster, S. L., Bryant, A. R., & Rodriguez, B. F. (2011). Confirmatory factor and measurement invariance analyses of the emotion regulation questionnaire. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 67(12), 1283-1293. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.20836

Preece, D. A., Becerra, R., Robinson, K., & Gross, J. J. (2019). The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire: Psychometric properties in general community samples. Journal of Personality Assessment, 102(3), 348-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2018.1564319

Sala, M. N., Molina, P., Abler, B., Kessler, H., Vanbrabant, L., & van de Schoot, R. (2012). Measurement invariance of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). A cross-national validity study. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 9(6), 751-757. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2012.690604