Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) - Personality Studies

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  • This submission contains data and codebooks from several personality studies conducted 1990-2017, organized by assessment instrument. For demographic information about the study participants, please refer to Background Information Questionnaire (BIQ) - Personality Studies (http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/35424). Studies: 1. Interpersonal Functioning and Emotion in Borderline Personality ("Emotion and Interpersonal Functioning") 2. Interpersonal Functioning and Emotion in Borderline Personality ("Couples") Description: The DERS is a 36-item self-report measure scored on a 5-point Likert-type scale. Respondents indicate the frequency with which statements such as “I am clear about my feelings” apply to themselves. From the primary article: “The DERS items were chosen to reflect difficulties within the following dimensions of emotion regulation: (a) awareness and understanding of emotions; (b) acceptance of emotions; (c) the ability to engage in goal-directed behavior, and refrain from impulsive behavior, when experiencing negative emotions; and (d) access to emotion regulation strategies perceived as effective” Reliability: (Gratz & Roemer, 2004): The DERS had high internal consistency (α = .93).. All the DERS subscales (computed from the 6 factors obtained in the factor analysis) also had adequate internal consistency, with Cronbach’s α>.80 for each subscale. Citations: Gratz, K. L., & Roemer, L. (2004). Multidimensional assessment of emotion regulation and dysregulation: development, factor structure, and initial validation of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 26, 41–54.
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Pilkonis, Paul. Difficulties In Emotion Regulation Scale (ders) - Personality Studies. . 2019. d-scholarship.pitt.edu/concern/generic_works/305c7010-bcac-4fca-890f-197f3a2df4d3.

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P. Paul. (2019). Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) - Personality Studies. https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/concern/generic_works/305c7010-bcac-4fca-890f-197f3a2df4d3

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