How do people regulate, manage, and express their emotions?

The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) measures a person’s emotional experience (i.e. what they feel like on the inside) and emotional expression (i.e. how they show their emotions in the way they talk, gesture, or behave). Because the capacity to regulate emotions is important for human adaptation, this survey can be used to study the relationship between emotion and other psychological phenomena (i.e. physiological responses, social connectedness, etc.). Research suggests that people who typically keep their emotions from showing during social interactions may experience increased stress levels.

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.

Parameters
This survey cannot be tweaked.

What data is collected? How is it scored?
The following variables are recorded:

• ERQ_reappraisal
• ERQ_suppression

Raw data: 10 questions in a 7-point likert scale format. Half of the questions correspond to "reappraisal" (items 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10), and half correspond to "suppression"(items 2, 4, 6, 9).
Each subscale score represent the sum of the items of that scale (strongly disagree = 1, neutral = 4, strongly agree = 7)