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Transcultural validation of the “regulation of emotions questionnaire” among Tunisian university students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

E. Bouguira ,
U. Ouali ,
M. Ben Alaya ,
Y. Zgueb  and
F. Nacef
E. Bouguira
Affiliation:
Department Psychiatry A, Razi Hospital, Manouba, Tunisia
U. Ouali*
Affiliation:
Department Psychiatry A, Razi Hospital, Manouba, Tunisia
M. Ben Alaya
Affiliation:
Department Psychiatry A, Razi Hospital, Manouba, Tunisia
Y. Zgueb
Affiliation:
Department Psychiatry A, Razi Hospital, Manouba, Tunisia
F. Nacef
Affiliation:
Department Psychiatry A, Razi Hospital, Manouba, Tunisia
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

The regulation of emotions is a psychological process covering the capacity of inhibiting, maintaining or modulating emotions to create a coherent psychological functioning and to enable the individual to live in adequacy with his or her environment.

Objectives

The aim of the study was to develop an Arabic version of the “Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire-2” (REQ-2T) from Phillips & Power, 2007, and to validate it in a sample of Tunisian university students.

Methods

This is a validation study conducted in a sample of 384 Tunisian university students to whom we administered the REQ-2T, the DASS-21 questionnaire and a sociodemographic questionnaire. We tested face and content validity, reliability, and construct validity of the Arabic version of the REQ-2.

Results

Face and content validity were satisfying. The internal consistency was average, with Cronbach’s alpha coefficient ranging from 0.44 to 0.65. The inter-dimensional correlation reflected statistically significant and logical correlations within the REQ-2T. Temporal stability was satisfying with a variable concordance of 0.65. Exploratory analysis revealed four factors similarly to the original version of the questionnaire. Statistically significant correlations were found between the REQ-2T and its external validator (DASS-21).

Conclusions

The REQ-2T demonstrated good psychometric properties, thus this scale can be reliably used as a measure of emotion regulation in the Tunisian population.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

emotion regulationvalidationquestionnaireDepression
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S683 - S684
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