Examining the Gender-based Equivalence of Factorial Structure of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire- Short Form

Subject Areas : روان‌شناسی تحولی

Monireh Hosseinabadi ¹ , Omid Shokri ²

1 - کارشناس ارشد روان شناسی بالینی
2 - استادیار دانشگاه شهید بهشتی

Received: 2016-01-10 Accepted : 2016-01-10 Published : 2015-12-22

Keywords: gender differences, multi-group confirmatory factor analysis, factorial invariance, the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire,

Abstract :

This study aimed to examine the measurement invariance of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ, Garnefski, Kraaij & Spinhoven, 2001) among male and female students. Three hundred and forty nine university students (182 females, 167 males) completed the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis was used to examinethe factorial invariance of the CERQ for both females and males. The results of single-group confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the nine-factor model of CERQ consisted of self-blame, acceptance, rumination, positive refocusing, refocus on planning, positive reappraisal, putting into perspective, catastrophizing and other-blame fit to the datafor the total sample and also for male and female groups, independently. The results of multi-group confirmatory factor analysis indicated cross-group invariance of measurement residuals, structural covariances and regression weights of the CERQ for both male and female. The findings suggested that multiple factors of the CERQ were perceived equally across the two gender.  

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