Measures approaches to manage emotions
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)
How do people regulate, manage, and express their emotions?
The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) is a 10-question measure of a person’s emotional experience (i.e. what they feel like on the inside) and emotional expression. The questions measure two variables including reappraisal and suppression. This survey can be used to explore relationships between emotion regulation and variables like working memory, social connection, or mental health. Past research suggests that people who reported more suppression of emotions reported worse social functioning (Butler et al., 2003).
Resources - Gross, J.J., & John, O.P. (2003). Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: Implications for affect, relationships, and well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 348-362.
- English, T., & John, O. P. (2013). Understanding the social effects of emotion regulation: the mediating role of authenticity for individual differences in suppression. Emotion, 13(2), 314.
Parameters
This survey cannot be tweaked.
Disclaimer
Any languages that are currently offered besides English for this survey are not necessarily validated translations. This survey was translated using Google Translate and verified by members of the community.
What data is collected? How is it scored?
The following variables are recorded:
- ERQ_reappraisal: Higher scores mean participants reframe the meaning of an event in order to influence the experience of an emotion.
- ERQ_suppression: Higher scores mean participants do not show the behavioral component of an emotion (e.g., facial, gestural, or verbal expression) while they are experiencing an emotion.
Raw data: 10 questions broken into 2 variables (reappraisal and suppression). Each variable's score ranges from 1-7.
Calculation:
Subscores are determined by averaging the scores of the questions in each variable. The Likert scale ranges from 1 ("strongly disagree") to 7 ("strongly agree"), so the averages of the scores will also range from 1-7.
- ERQ_reappraisal: Average of questions 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10
- ERQ_suppression: Average of questions 2, 4, 6, 9
Background
In this survey, you are asked how you regulate, manage, and express your emotions.
What participants see before taking the survey
In this survey, you are asked how you regulate, manage, and express your emotions.
What participants see after taking the survey
This survey can be used to explore relationships between emotion regulation and variables like working memory, social connection, or mental health. Past research suggests that people who reported more suppression of emotions reported worse social functioning (Butler et al., 2003).
Aggregate Variables
These data are automatically written to a csv file upon completion of the survey
more info
- ERQ_reappraisal
- ERQ_suppression
Scoring
Subscores are determined by averaging the scores of the questions in each variable. The Likert scale ranges from 1 ("strongly disagree") to 7 ("strongly agree"), so the averages of the scores will also range from 1-7.
Format
This is a likert scale survey.
Duration
3 mins
Resources
- Gross, J.J., & John, O.P. (2003). Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: Implications for affect, relationships, and well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 348-362.
- Ochsner, K. & Gross, J. J. (2005). The cognitive control of emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 242-249. Butler, E. A., Egloff, B., Wilhelm, F. H., Smith, N. C., Erikson,
- E. A., & Gross, J. J. (2003). The social consequences of expressive suppression. Emotion, 3, 48-67.