Abstract

Difficulties with emotion regulation have been found to be implicated in the development and maintenance of depression and symptoms of low mood, as well as various other significant psychological conditions including mood disorders, anxiety disorders and personality disorders. Thus, it is important to have valid and reliable measures of difficulties with emotional regulation that are easy to administer and interpret. There are presently four available measures for this construct: the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), and the three short-form versions, the DERS-16, the DERS-18 and the DERS-SF. There remains inconsistency in the literature about which short-form version of the DERS is best. The present study aimed to extend the literature by examining and comparing the psychometric properties and clinical utility of the well-known self-report measure the DERS, and the three short-form versions, the DERS-16, the DERS-18 and the DERS-SF, in a large convenience sample. A sample of 1049 first-year university students completed an online test battery of self-report questionnaires and a series of questions regarding demographic information. The DERS and the three short-form versions demonstrated good construct validity, good internal consistency, and good discriminative ability. The mean scores and standard deviations of the DERS subscales and DERS short-forms organized by depressive symptom severity are presented. Overall, this paper provides new evidence of the validity and clinical utility of the four versions of the DERS.

摘要

已发现情绪调节困难与抑郁症和情绪低落症状的发展和维持有关，以及其他各种重要的心理状况，包括情绪障碍、焦虑症和人格障碍。因此，重要的是要对情绪调节困难进行有效和可靠的测量，这些测量方法易于管理和解释。目前有四种可用的测量方法：情绪调节困难量表 (DERS)，以及三个简短版本，DERS-16、DERS-18 和 DERS-SF。关于哪种 DERS 的简短版本最好，文献中仍然存在不一致之处。本研究旨在通过检查和比较著名的自我报告测量 DERS 和三个简短版本 DERS-16、DERS-18 和 DERS 的心理测量学特性和临床效用来扩展文献-SF，在一个大的便利样本中。1049 名大学一年级学生的样本完成了一组在线测试，包括自我报告问卷和一系列有关人口统计信息的问题。DERS 和三个简短版本表现出良好的结构效度、良好的内部一致性和良好的判别能力。介绍了按抑郁症状严重程度组织的 DERS 分量表和 DERS 简表的平均分数和标准差。总体而言，本文为四种版本的 DERS 的有效性和临床实用性提供了新的证据。