Contextual Modification of Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale in Marital Relational Perspective

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Anwista Ganguly¹, Aparajita Chakraborty², Atanu Kumar Dogra³, and Sadhan Dasgupta⁴ (Department of Psychology, Maharani Kasiswari College, Kolkata, West Bengal¹, Department of Psychology, Amity University, Kolkata, West Bengal², Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal³, and Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal⁴)

The present attempt is taken for modification of the Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) which was originally and classically developed by Gratz and Roamer (2004). The original scale is the measure of overall emotion regulation of individual. As emotion regulation varies with contexts, marital relationship-based modification of emotion regulation scale was needed. For that purpose, Bengalee, corporate working married couples were approached as participants of the study. The original scale is modified following the rules of establishing standard psychometric properties such as content validation based on judges’ rating, item total correlation, internal consistency measure and criterion related validation etc. to explore empirical importance of the scale in marital context. Result showed that although the subconstructs of the scale were remained same, the contextual modification of each item was done and satisfactory psychometric properties were found. Association and comparison between original and modified scale reflects two important aspects of uniqueness. The pattern of the correlation coefficient between original and modified scales (ranges from 0.59 to 0.66),indicated that the same construct was found psychometrically embedded in both the scales and the comparison further indicated a significant higher values of emotion regulations in marital context than the generic one.