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. 2021 Jul-Dec;14(2):61–81. doi: 10.21500/20112084.5234

Table 1. Self-report Instruments to Measure Emotional Regulation in Spanish-speaking Children and Adolescents.

Abbreviation Scale Name Author(s) Country Sample Dimensions Internal consistency N° of items
CERQ-ShortE Short Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire Rey and Extremera (2011) Spain 248 adolescents Self-blame .68 18
Acceptance .65
Rumination .64
Positive Refocusing .64
Refocus on Planning .65
Positive Reappraisal .52
Putting into Perspective .62
Catastrophizing .64
Other-blame .52
CERQ-Sk Spanish version of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Question-naire for children Orgilés, Morales, Fernandez, Martínez, Ortigosa-Quiles, & Espada (2018) [Adaptation of CERQ-k, Refocus on Planning .70 Garnefski et al. (2007)] Spain 582 adolescents Self-blame .65 36
Acceptance .56
Rumination .71
Positive Refocusing .75
Refocus on Planning .70
Positive Reappraisal .65
Putting into Perspective .67
Catastrophizing .69
Other-blame .70
CERQ-Sk Short Short version of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Question-naire for Spanish children Orgilés, Morales, Fernandez-Martínez, Melero & Espada (2018) [Adaptation of CERQ-k, short version, Garnefski & Kraaij (2007)] Spain 654 adolescents Self-blame .54 18
Acceptance .70
Rumination .60
Positive Refocusing .70
Refocus on Planning .62
Positive Reappraisal .47
Putting into Perspective .61
Catastrophizing .66
Other-blame .61
CSMS CAMS CWMS Chile Children’s emotion Management Scales: Anger, Sadness, and worry Mendoza (2010) [Adaptation of Zeman et al. (2001); Zeman et al. Chile 190 Children Emotion Regulation .60 11
Inhibition .57
Dysregulated- Expression .51
DERS-E Spanish version of the Difficulties Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) Gómez, Penelo, & De la Osa (2014) Spain 642 adolescents Awareness .62 36
Impulse .81
Non-acceptance .84
Goals .80
Claruty .71
Claruty .71
Strategies .71
DERS-Mex Spanish version of the DERS for Mexican adolescents Marín, Robles, González, Forteza, & Andrade (2012) Mexico 455 adolescents Non-acceptance .85 24
Goals .79
Awareness .71
Clarity .68
EREn Scale of Emotional Regulation for emotional regulation Children Ortiz (2014) Mexico 190 children Strategies that facilitate emotional regulation .86 33
Strategies that hinder / obstruct emotional regulation .78
ERQ-CA Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Spanish adolescents Navarro, Vara, Cebolla, & Baños (2018) [Adaptatoin of Gullone & Taffe (2012) ] Spain 399 adolescents Cognitive Reappraisal .61 10
Expressive Suppression 0.64
ERQ-SpA Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Spanish Adolescent Martín-Albo,Valdivia-Salas, Lombas & Jiménez (2020) [Adaptatoin of Gullone & Taffe (2012) ] Spain 462 adolescents Cognitive Reappraisal .77 10
Expressive Suppression .52
(Composxite Reliability index=.66)