Psychometric Properties of the Emotion Reactivity Scale in Community Screening Assessments

Autor/inn/en	Byrne, Stephen; Makol, Bridget A.; Keeley, Lauren M.; De Los Reyes, Andres
Titel	Psychometric Properties of the Emotion Reactivity Scale in Community Screening Assessments
Quelle	(2019), (34 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Measures (Individuals); Screening Tests; Psychometrics; Emotional Response; Psychopathology; Test Reliability; Test Validity; Parent Child Relationship; Adolescents; Conflict; Quality of Life; Anxiety; Suicide; Safety; Depression (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Arousal Patterns; Adults; District of Columbia; Maryland; Virginia; Beck Depression Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Messdaten; Screening-Verfahren; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Emotionales Verhalten; Psychopathologie; Testreliabilität; Testvalidität; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Konflikt; Lebensqualität; Angst; Selbstmord; Sicherheit; Psychiatrische Symptomatik
Abstract	Among individuals experiencing internalizing psychopathology, high levels of emotion reactivity--the degree to which they experience emotions strongly or intensely, over extended periods of time, and as elicited by a variety of stimuli--increase risk for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors. Researchers developed the Emotion Reactivity Scale (ERS) to assess emotion reactivity, with psychometric support for the measure largely restricted to at-risk clinical populations. We know little of the psychometric properties of the ERS when administered as a screening measure in community assessments. In a study of the psychometric properties of the ERS in a non-clinical assessment of adults, we recruited 105 participants (M[subscript age]=44.6; 82.9% female) as part of a larger study of adolescent social anxiety and family relationships. Participants completed the ERS, self-report measures of various psychosocial domains, and an impromptu speech task, before and during which they self-reported their arousal. Scores taken from the ERS demonstrated strong internal consistency and demonstrated facets of validity: (a) positive relations with measures of internalizing psychopathology and parent-adolescent conflict, and negative relations with a measure of quality of life (convergent validity); (b) relations with self-reported anxiety and safety-seeking behaviors, over-and-above self-reported depressive symptoms (incremental validity); and (c) relation with self-reported state arousal during the impromptu speech task, over-and-above self-reported arousal at baseline (criterion-related validity). These findings support the psychometric properties of the ERS when administered in non-clinic assessments of adults. As such, they have important implications for screening assessments designed to identify adults who display the potential for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors. [This paper was published in "Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment" v41 p730-740 2019.] (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01