Assessment of the revised Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scales among adolescents and adults with severe mental illness
Open accessAbstract
The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) comprising 36 items has been widely used across age, gender, psychopathology, language, and culture. Recently several alternative abridged forms have been introduced, namely, the DERS-16 (Bjureberg et al. 2016), the DERS-SF (Kaufman et al. 2016), and the DERS-18 (Victor and Klonsky, 2016), each composed of 16 or 18 items, to provide researchers and clinicians with a shorter measure of emotion dysregulation. However, no study to date has directly compared the psychometrics of these alternative forms. In the present study, using confirmatory factor analysis we first examined the factor structure of the four models of the DERS in two inpatient samples of 636 adolescents in the age-range of 12-17 years (M = 15.33, SD = 1.43), and 1807 adults in the age-range of 18-76 years (M = 34.86, SD = 14.63) with severe mental illness. Next, measurement invariance was tested comparing the two age groups across the four models of DERS. Only the DERS-SF established metric and scalar measurement invariance. Findings suggest that the factor structure of the original and the abridged models of DERS have acceptable fit, however only DERS-SF had equivalence of factor loadings and item intercepts across adolescents and adults.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The DERS-16 has been used in adolescent clinical as well as in nonclinical samples before.
“and has been used in adolescent clinical as well as in nonclinical samples before [160, 161];”
From Efficacy of a transdiagnostic Internet prevention approach in adolescents (EMPATIA study): study protocol of a randomized controlled trial (2024) · cites this paper as [160]
Cites
Hu, L., & Bentler, P. M. (1999) · Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal · doi:10.1080/10705519909540118 · Cited by 108,788 · see citing works
Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling
Tabri, N., & Elliott, C. M. (2012) · Canadian Graduate Journal of Sociology and Criminology · doi:10.15353/cgjsc.v1i1.3787 · Cited by 39,065 · see citing works
(1998) · Cited by 36,049 · see citing works
Evaluating Goodness-of-Fit Indexes for Testing Measurement Invariance
Cheung, G. W., & Rensvold, R. B. (2002) · Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal · doi:10.1207/s15328007sem0902_5 · Cited by 16,280 · see citing works
Gratz, K. L., & Roemer, L. (2004) · Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment · doi:10.1023/b:joba.0000007455.08539.94 · Cited by 8,942 · see citing works
Bjureberg, J., Ljótsson, B., Tull, M. T., Hedman, E., Sahlin, H., Lundh, L.-G., Bjärehed, J., DiLillo, D., Messman-Moore, T., Gumpert, C. H., et al. (2016) · Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment · doi:10.1007/s10862-015-9514-x · Cited by 1,081 · see citing works
Kaufman, E. A., Xia, M., Fosco, G., Yaptangco, M., Skidmore, C. R., & Crowell, S. E. (2016) · Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment · doi:10.1007/s10862-015-9529-3 · Cited by 960 · see citing works
Item factor analysis: Current approaches and future directions.
Wirth, R. J., & Edwards, M. C. (2007) · Psychological Methods · doi:10.1037/1082-989x.12.1.58 · Cited by 917 · see citing works
Victor, S. E., & Klonsky, E. D. (2016) · Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment · doi:10.1007/s10862-016-9547-9 · Cited by 470 · cited 4× · see citing works
“This 18-item version of the DERS (Victor & Klonsky, 2016) has six subscales each consisting of three items taken from the original DERS (Gratz & Roemer, 2004; see Table 1 for the questionnaire items).”
Influential(2015) · Cited by 318 · see citing works
An examination of the latent structure of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale.
Bardeen, J. R., Fergus, T. A., & Orcutt, H. K. (2012) · Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment · doi:10.1007/s10862-012-9280-y · Cited by 299 · see citing works
Fowler, J. C., Charak, R., Elhai, J. D., Allen, J. G., Frueh, B. C., & Oldham, J. M. (2014) · Journal of Psychiatric Research · doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2014.07.029 · Cited by 216 · see citing works
Self-citationPerez, J., Venta, A., Garnaat, S., & Sharp, C. (2012) · Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment · doi:10.1007/s10862-012-9292-7 · Cited by 184 · see citing works
Self-citationA Brazilian Investigation of the 36- and 16-Item Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scales
Miguel, F. K., Giromini, L., Colombarolli, M. S., Zuanazzi, A. C., & Zennaro, A. (2016) · Journal of Clinical Psychology · doi:10.1002/jclp.22404 · Cited by 84 · see citing works
Khosravani, V., Sharifi Bastan, F., Ghorbani, F., & Kamali, Z. (2017) · Addictive Behaviors · doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.02.029 · Cited by 77 · see citing works
Lilly, M. M., London, M. J., & Bridgett, D. J. (2014) · Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy · doi:10.1037/a0036460 · Cited by 75 · see citing works
Emotion dysregulation and peer drinking norms uniquely predict alcohol-related problems via motives
Simons, R. M., Hahn, A. M., Simons, J. S., & Murase, H. (2017) · Drug and Alcohol Dependence · doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.03.019 · Cited by 58 · see citing works
O’Bryan, E. M., McLeish, A. C., Kraemer, K. M., & Fleming, J. B. (2014) · Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy · doi:10.1037/a0037764 · Cited by 55 · see citing works
Dixon–Gordon, K. L., Weiss, N. H., Tull, M. T., DiLillo, D., Messman‐Moore, T. L., & Gratz, K. L. (2015) · Comprehensive Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2015.07.014 · Cited by 47 · see citing works
Bardeen, J. R., & Stevens, E. N. (2014) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/j.paid.2014.07.009 · Cited by 21 · see citing works
Sippel, L. M., Jones, R. E., Bordieri, M. J., Dixon, L. J., May, A. C., Malkin, M. L., Schumacher, J. A., & Coffey, S. F. (2014) · Cognitive Therapy and Research · doi:10.1007/s10608-014-9648-2 · Cited by 15 · see citing works
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Hirsig, A., Häfeli, X. A., & Schmidt, S. J. (2024) · Trials · doi:10.1186/s13063-024-08241-3 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
“The DERS-16 has good psychometric properties in adolescents [159] and has been used in adolescent clinical as well as in nonclinical samples before [160, 161]; (5) the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale ( IUS-12 [162]), a 12-item questionnaire measuring reactions to uncertainty, ambiguous situations,…”
Method
- Authors
- Charak, R., Byllesby, B. M., Fowler, J. C., Sharp, C., Elhai, J. D., & Frueh, B. C.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (US)
- Summa Health System (US)
- Houston Methodist (US)
- University of Houston (US)
- University of Toledo (US)
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
- Corresponding author
- Charak, Ruby
- ORCID
- Venue
- Psychiatry Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-09
- Volume
- 279
- Pages
- 278-283
- ISSN
- 0165-1781 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2939192625
- Cited by
- 61
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 5.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- Psychiatry Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ScholarWorks @ UTRGV (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, emotional dysregulation, factor structure, measurement invariance, adolescents, adults, severe mental illness, psychometrics
- MeSH terms
- Emotional Regulation, Adolescent, Adult, Affective Symptoms, Aged, Mental Disorders, Child, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychometrics, Young Adult
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
