Evidences of Validity of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale - DERS

Abstract

Emotional regulation is a recent construct with few adapted instruments in Brazil capable of measuring it. This study aimed to find evidences of content validity, internal consistency and reliability of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) for the Brazilian context. The participants were 402 adults (78.1% women) aged between 18 to 71 years, of which 86.8% resided in Rio Grande do Sul. We revised an adaptation of the referred instrument to facilitate the understanding of the items. In order to test the most appropriate structure to the Brazilian context, we performed a confirmatory factor analysis, comparing the original instrument structure to that validated to Portuguese. The results showed that DERS had good psychometric properties, exhibiting validity and reliability for the Brazilian sample. The factorial structure was equivalent to the original version, containing six dimensions.

Religiosidade, estratégias de coping e satisfação com a vida: Verificação de um modelo de influência em estudantes universitários

“…Por fim, ressalta-se que a Psicologia Positiva objetiva o desenvolvimento, nas práticas clínicas de cuidado com a saúde mental, de potencialidades do sujeito em contraposição aos desafios que o indivíduo precisa lidar na sua rotina. Sendo assim, o desenvolvimento de um ambiente que proporcione satisfação com a vida e o incentivo a vivência das práticas religiosas individuais devem ser fomentadas pelo contexto universitário e também pelos profissionais de saúde em suas práticas clínicas a fim de lidar com a estressante rotina universitária que pode levar aos alunos ao adoecimento e evasão (Jovanovic & Brdar, 2018;Samaha & Hawi, 2016;Whisman & Judd, 2016;Garrido, 2018;Machado, Gurgel & Reppold, 2017).…”

The effectiveness of knowledge mobilization on parent emotion beliefs is moderated by parent gender, dysregulation, and family expressiveness.

“…Gratz and Roemer (2004) reported a Cronbach’s alpha for DERS subscales ranging from .80 to .89, with alpha for the overall score being reported as .93. Construct validity and test–retest reliability were established within the measure development study and have been subsequently replicated (Fowler et al, 2014; Machado et al, 2020). Cronbach’s alpha for the overall DERS score in this study was .93 for mothers and .92 for fathers.…”