چکیده:
Objectives: Emotional regulation refers to strategies that reduce, maintain or increase an emotion in people. The purpose of this study is to standard the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire in Tehran aged population. Method: The sample was selected randomly from 20 Jahandidhgan associations and consisted of 500 aged people from whom 338 people remained till the end of study. In order to define the dimensional structure a Principal Component Analysis with Varimax-rotation on item level was performed. Results: The alpha coefficients of the various subscales across the diverse populations was 0/798 but the items 5,7,31,6,8,32,30,29,and 12 had week co efficiency (0/84) which was consider as subscale. Discussions: After some steps of analysis with Varimax-rotation, 7 factors was created and the 8th factors which was categorized as subscale was named as "acceptance of negative happenings". These results prove that the cognitive coping strategies can be used in Iranian aging population.
خلاصه ماشینی:
; Peymaneh Shirinbayan* University of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences, Tehran, Iran Emotional regulation refers to strategies that reduce, maintain or increase an emotion in people.
The purpose of this study is to standard the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire in Tehran aged population.
The CERQ (Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire) is a multidimensional questionnaire constructed in order to identify the cognitive coping strategies someone uses after having experienced negative events or situations.
Due to the growing needs of the elderly involved organizations to cognitive strategies for identify solutions and determining appropriate interventions, this study aimed to standard the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire in Tehran aged population.
Each subscale measures cognitive emotion regulation and coping strategy.
The average for the nine subscales of cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire include: "self- blame = 7/35"; accept negative events = 11/37; Rumination = 8/95; positive thinking= 9/97; Planning= 11/20, positive reappraisal =11/42; Putting into Perspective =13/05; Catastrophizing, 5/75 and blame others 6/92.
Pearson correlation test between subscales of cognitive emotion regulation and education is significant.
84 Conclusion The results of the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire validation which was based on Principal Component Analyses indicated that the reliability of subscales was acceptable, reproducible and can be consider reasonable.
Correlation between age and number of children with total scores of cognitive emotion regulation is not statistically significant.
In this study besides the validation and reliability of cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire, emotional coping strategies were identified too.
Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ).