Emotion Regulation during Adolescence and Psychological Adjustment: Psychometric Qualities of Emotion Regulation Questionnaire in Turkish Culture

Abstract

Thompson (1994) states that in order to align our emotional reactions with our goals we have to regulate our emotions. Emotion regulation consists of external processes as well as internal processes as individual dif— ference variables (Thompson Meyer, 2007). The main aim of the present study is to examine the psychometric qualities of Emotion Regulation Ques— tionnaire (ERQ; Gross John, 2003) on Turkish ado— lescents. The ERQ assesses two important individual emotion regulation strategies, reappraisal and expressive suppression. We tested ERQ’s factor structure and inves— tigated associations between its two subscales and psy— chosocial development variables to explore its construct and predictive validity in Turkey.