Regulation of Positive and Negative Emotions: The Turkish Adaptation Study of the Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory (PERCI)
The current literature suggests that emotion regulation, the mechanism of change in treatment, is the common etiological and maintenance factor for different psychopathologies. This study aims to conduct an adaptation study of the Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory (PERCI; Preece et al.,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Istanbul University Press
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Psikoloji Çalışmaları |
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| Online Access: | https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/CBE3B5B2934E4CF8BFAA1EADE04CBAC0 |
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| Summary: | The current literature suggests that emotion regulation, the mechanism of change in treatment, is the common etiological and maintenance factor for different psychopathologies. This study aims to conduct an adaptation study of the Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory (PERCI; Preece et al., 2018) into Turkish and to examine the scale’s psychometric properties. The study sample consists of 461 participants, of whom 77.4% are female and 22.3% male with a mean age of 21.49 years old. The study first adapted PERCI from English to Turkish using the back translation method. Next, the participants completed a demographic information form, the Turkish version of PERCI; the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ); and the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21). The measurement set was applied to the participants using an online platform. The study then conducted confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and compared the generated groups using cluster analysis, with the Pearson correlation coefficients being calculated for scores from the PERCI, the ERQ, and the DASS-21 within the scope of examining the validity of the Turkish version of PERCI. The study also calculated Cronbach’s α and McDonald’s ω for the reliability examination. The CFA findings for the factor structure of PERCI have revealed the scale to have eight first-order factors, each factor consisting of four items (i.e., controlling experience, inhibiting behavior, activating behavior, and tolerating emotions for both negative and positive emotions) being loaded onto two second-order factors (i.e., negative and positive emotion regulation). The negative, positive, and general emotion regulation scores showed expected correlations with the variables of depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms and also indicated significant differences among the high, medium, and low symptom groups. High reliability coefficients were obtained for all of PERCI’s subscale scores. In conclusion, these findings provide evidence for the validity and reliability of the scores obtained from the Turkish version of PERCI. For future emotion regulation research, a measure that enables a more detailed examination of the relationships involved in emotion regulation in the context of positive and negative emotions and other structures has been brought to Türkiye’s national literature. |
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| ISSN: | 2602-2982 |