Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)
A 10-item measure of two habitual emotion-regulation strategies: Cognitive Reappraisal (changing how you think about a situation to change its emotional impact) and Expressive Suppression (inhibiting outward emotional expression). The two facets are largely independent and are scored separately; there is no combined total and no diagnostic cutoff.
At a glance
Detailed write-up pending
A full, citation-backed scientific write-up for this scale — overview, clinical use, and psychometrics in the voice of a dissertation "Measures" section — has not yet been authored. To honor the platform's no-fabricated-sources rule, this page currently shows only the verified registry facts above (item count, structure, scoring, and any published norms). No validity coefficients, reliability figures, or citations are shown here that cannot be traced to a named source; the authored write-up will be added once its sources have been read and recorded in the plan-integrity file.
Subscales
Cognitive Reappraisal 6 items
Expressive Suppression 4 items
Example item
“When I want to feel more positive emotion (such as joy or amusement), I change what I'm thinking about.”
Illustrative only. During administration items are presented one screen-set at a time; response-key direction is never shown to respondents.
Scoring & interpretation
Each subscale is summed (with any published multiplier) and compared against its own cutoff bands.
Source & citation
Gross, J. J., & John, O. P. (2003). Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: Implications for affect, relationships, and well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(2), 348–362.
Scoring. Scoring (Gross & John, 2003): each facet is the mean (and sum) of its items; there are no reverse-scored items and no combined total. Cognitive Reappraisal = items 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10 (6 items). Expressive Suppression = items 2, 4, 6, 9 (4 items).
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross, J. J., & John, O. P., 2003), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(2), 348–362. Free for research and clinical use with attribution.