期刊名称：Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
电子版ISSN：1948-822X
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
期号：3
页码：159-168
DOI：10.5243/jsswr.2010.12
出版社：Society for Social Work and Research
摘要：Individuals suffering from personality disorders, particularly borderline personality disorder, often evidence substantial problems in regulating and managing their emotions. The development of psychometrically sound measures that can be used in routine clinical settings to assess difficulties with emotional regulation is urgently needed. The newly developed brief General Emotion Dysregulation Measure (GEDM) has shown good reliability and validity with a clinical sample of 100 individuals diagnosed with Cluster B personality disorders. The current study extends this previous work by examining the reliability and factor structure of the GEDM by applying confirmatory factor analysis, using a nonclinical sample of 306 university students to further explore the GEDM’s factor structure. Results suggest that emotion dysregulation, as measured by the GEDM, appears to be best represented by a two-dimensional solution consisting of (a) a high sensitivity or vulnerability to emotional stimuli coupled with high amplitude of emotional response, and (b) difficulty in settling down or returning to emotional baseline. In addition, results showed that, together, items from these factors could be approximated into an overall single-factor representing emotion dysregulation, although fit was significantly better with the two-factor model. Implications for future research efforts and potential uses of the measure are discussed.
