Abstract

MUNOZ-MARTINEZ, Amanda M.; VARGAS, Rochy M.  and  HOYOS-GONZALEZ, Juan Sebastián. THE DIFFICULTIES IN EMOTION REGULATION SCALE (DERS): FACTOR ANALYSIS IN A COLOMBIAN SAMPLE. Act.Colom.Psicol. [online]. 2016, vol.19, n.1, pp.237-248. ISSN 0123-9155.  https://doi.org/10.14718/ACP.2016.19.1.10.

The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) is an instrument designed to assess emotional dysregulation. The current study sought to identify consistency of DERS factors and items relevance for each one of them. Participants were 251 students, 68% female, from a university in Bogotá-Colombia. This research assessed the DERS factors: (a) non-acceptance, (b) goals, (c) impulse, (d) strategies, (e) awareness, and (f) clarity. Factor Analysis found that DERS items are gathered in two main factors rather than six, and data reduction demonstrated that only 15 of the 36 items in the original scale contributed significantly to factors variance. It is recommended extending the research to health contexts and to clinical and non-clinical population in Colombia in order to validate the DERS and develop a total score for the scale.

Keywords : emotional dysregulation; factor analysis; instrumental study.

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