The Creation And Application Of Emotion Regulation Strategy Scale In Chinese Culture

As an important aspect of psychological research,emotion regulation has important significance for interpersonal relationship and well-being.Most of the emotion regulation scales used in studies are revised according to foreign scales,and there is no emotion regulation scales based on Chinese local culture.The study intends to develop an emotion regulation strategy scale based on Chinese traditional cultural and psychological characteristics,so as to supplement the existing emotion regulation strategies and enrich the studies in this aspect.We firstly reviews and discusses the connotation of emotion regulation,the main theoretical models,the relevant scales and the studies on the prediction effect of emotion regulation,and especially discusses the thought of emotion regulation and analyzes the emotion regulation strategies in traditional Chinese culture.Based on these theories,the theoretical structure of the emotional regulation strategy scale is determined,and the scale is developed.Through four series of studies,the reliability and validity of the scale were tested and the relationship between the use of emotion regulation strategies and interpersonal relationships and happiness were discussed.In study 1,we constructed the theoretical conception of emotion regulation strategy and developed the scale by combining the ideas from the process model of emotion regulation and the traditional ideas of emotion regulation in Chinese culture.we developed the scale according to the development process of correlative scales,and we considered from the three aspects: theory,literature and questionnaire.We selected633 college students as the study participants.According to exploratory factor analysis(n = 317),confirmatory factor analysis(n = 316)to determine the structure of the scale,and the internal consistency and retest reliability of the scale were tested.In study 2,we selected 337 college students to test the convergent and discriminant validity of the scale.In study 3,we selected 591 college students to study the relationship between emotion regulation strategies,interpersonal relationship and well-being.In Study 4,we selected 41 patients with depression and 41 normal participants as study participants.By comparing the emotion regulation strategies of depression patients and healthy people,we further validated the discriminant validity of the scale.In summary,the results of this study prove that:(1)We developed an emotion regulation strategy scale,which contains threedimensions: self-cultivation,cognitive reappraisal and behavioral transfer.The scale has good reliability and validity,meets the requirements of psychometrics.(2)The emotion regulation strategy scale has good convergent and discriminative validity.The new strategies and other emotion regulation strategies are both convergent but still different.(3)Self-cultivation,cognitive reappraisal and behavioral transfer strategies are related to better interpersonal relationship and higher well-being.Among them,self-cultivation strategies have the strongest positive prediction effect on psychological well-being,while behavioral transfer strategies have the strongest positive prediction effect on interpersonal relationship.(4)The use frequency of the three strategies of self-cultivation,cognitive reappraisal and behavioral transfer in depressed patients was significantly lower than that in the normal group,which further indicated that the discriminative validity of the scale was good.