Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (IERQ): Scale Development and Psychometric Characteristics

Abstract

Despite the popularity of emotion regulation in the contemporary literature, research has almost exclusively focused on only intrapersonal processes, whereas much less attention has been placed in interpersonal emotion regulation processes. In order to encourage research on interpersonal emotion regulation, we present a series of 4 studies to develop the Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (IERQ). The final scale consists of 20 items with 4 factors containing 5 items each. The 4 factors are: Enhancing Positive Affect; Perspective Taking; Soothing; and Social Modeling. The scale shows excellent psychometric characteristics. Implications for future research are discussed.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Emotion Regulation as a Transdiagnostic Process

“…Also, Rosenthal et al (2016), Shapero et al (2015), and Hofmann et al (2016) analyzed symptoms of comorbid conditions (e.g., anxiety and depression, BPD ad PSTD).…”

Interpersonal emotion regulation in younger and older adults

“…Yet, most adult lifespan literature focuses solely on finding age differences in how younger and older adults regulate their own emotions (Gross & John, 2004;Martins, Sheppes, Gross, Mather, 2016;Sheppes, Scheibe, Suri, & Gross, 2011;Sheppes et al, 2014). In general, the emotion regulation literature has been criticized for focusing mainly on how individuals regulate their own emotions (i.e., intrapersonal regulation) and rarely on how others might help with regulation, (i.e., interpersonal emotion regulation; Hofmann, Carpenter, Curtiss, 2016;Thoits, 1996;Zaki & Williams, 2013). While others have referred to this as extrinsic emotion regulation (Zaki & Williams, 2013), interpersonal emotion management (Little, Kluemper, Nelson, & Gooty, 2011), or social regulation of emotion, (Reeck et al, 2016) I use the term "interpersonal emotion regulation" to refer to instances when one person (the regulator) tries to manage the emotions of another (the target).…”

“…Intrapersonal strategy selection has been examined thoroughly with both self-report (e.g., Gross & John 2004) and behavioral measures Sheppes et al, 2014). Interpersonal strategy selection has only been examined with self-report (Hofmann, Carpenter, Curtiss, 2016;Niven, Totterdell, Stride, & Holman, 2011;Little et al, 2012).…”

“…Three self-report measures exist to examine interpersonal emotion regulation strategy selection; however, two of them either assess general motivational strategies (Niven, Totterdell, Stride, & Holman, 2011) or the target's preference (Hofmann, Carpenter, & Curtiss, 2016). The only measure to focus on specific strategy selection is the Interpersonal Emotion Management scale (IEM; Little, Kluemper, Nelson, & Gooty, 2011).…”

Nuevos abordajes para el tratamiento de la fibromialgia: una intervención positiva para la promoción del optimismo mediante la utilización de TICs

“…These advantages are especially significant in validation studies. In addition, this form of data collection has been used in several studies focused on emotional regulation (Goodall, Trejnowska, & Darling, 2012;Hofmann, Carpenter, & Curtiss, 2016;Miyamoto, & Ma, 2011). Second, both general and clinical populations had a majority of women, and there were a small subsample of participants with eating disorders, which it is not possible generalize the findings to this …”