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The 10-item Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) was developed by Gross and John (2003) to measure the habitual use of 2 emotion regulation strategies: reappraisal and suppression. Several studies using student samples have provided validation for the ERQ, although the only article (Wiltink et al., 2011) that evaluated the ERQ in a community sample was unable to replicate the original factor structure. Before using the ERQ in non-student samples, it is important to validate the scale in a sample broadly representative of the adult population and to determine the influence of demographic variables. The current study examined the psychometric properties of the ERQ in 2 community samples (Australia, N = 550; United Kingdom, N = 483; 17-95 years of age) using confirmatory analysis. The original ERQ factor structure was not supported by either the Australian or United Kingdom samples. However, with the removal of 1 item, a strong model fit was obtained for both samples (9-item ERQ [ERQ-9]). Using measurement invariance tests, the revised ERQ-9 was found to be equivalent across the samples and demographics (age, gender, and education). Gender, depression, anxiety, and stress were the only factors that were significantly associated with reappraisal and suppression use. Overall, the ERQ-9 provides better fit of the data than the 10-item ERQ. The utility of this measure is enhanced by the provision of normative data for males and females.

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This paper discusses the viability of an analogue research design for studying key processes in social phobia by comparing individuals who score high and low on the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (FNE: Watson & Friend, 1969). Research indicates remarkable consistency in the processes that distinguish patients with social phobia from controls and high FNE volunteers from low FNE volunteers. Unfortunately, all existing FNE norms are based on North American populations. The present paper presents British student norms and suggests possible cut-off points for defining groups for analogue research. Advantages of the analogue strategy include rapid piloting of new paradigms and the use of more complex experimental designs that require substantial sample sizes. Limitations of analogue research are also highlighted.

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therapy for outpatients with eating disorders: Effectiveness for a transdiagnostic group in a routine clinical setting. Behaviour Research and Therapy,[68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2015.03.001 eprints@whiterose.ac.uk https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse Unless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version -refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. Where records identify the publisher as the copyright holder, users can verify any specific terms of use on the publisher's website. TakedownIf you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. These preliminary studies of effectiveness indicate that CBT can be delivered with strong outcomes in routine clinical settings. However, it is well-established that clinicians routinely fail to use CBT when working with the eating disorders (e.g., Tobin, Banker, Weisberg, & Bowers, 2007) or that they deliver it in sub-optimal ways (Waller, Stringer, & Meyer, 2012), expressing concerns about the use of those core CBT techniques (e.g., Turner, Tatham, Lant, Mountford, Waller, 2014) and discounting the use of evidence-based manuals to support their work (e.g., Waller et al., 2013). Therefore, there is a need for further evidence from other routine clinical settings to demonstrate that CBT for the eating disorders is an effective treatment, which others can use in their own clinics. This study aims to build on previous work by testing the effectiveness of CBT in a further routine clinical setting. It reports clinical outcomes for a large group of transdiagnostic patients who were offered CBT in a community eating disorders service in the UK. Unlike previous studies, there were very few exclusion criteria and no BMI cut-off. In this case, the variant of CBT used was based on a combination of elements from the relatively similar approaches of Fairburn (2008) and Waller et al. (2007), as used by Byrne et al. (2011) and Waller et al. (2014) respectively.

Young’s Schema Questionnaire (YSQ; Young & Brown, 1994) was developed to measure schemas that may need to be modified during therapy. This study examines whether the long and short forms of the YSQ produce comparable scores in a heterogenous group of psychiatric outpatients. The study also looks at how well each version predicts psychopathology measured by the SCL-90 -R (Derogatis, 1977). The results of this study show that the two versions of the YSQ have similar levels of internal consistency, parallel forms reliability and concurrent validity, and indicate that the short from can be used with reasonable confidence by the clinician and researcher. Both versions of the YSQ were modest predictors of psychopathology scores and each version produced slightly different patterns of predictions although there was overlap between the predicted schemas in each version.