Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ)

Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Psychometric Properties of the French Translation

Jermann, Françoise
Van der Linden, Martial
d'Acremont, Mathieu
Zermatten, Ariane

¹Cognitive Psychopathology and Neuropsychology Unit, FPSE, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

²Françoise, Jermann, Department of Psychiatry, Geneva University Hospital, 16–18 Bd Saint-Georges, CH-1205, Geneva, Switzerland, Tel: +41 22 327-7583; Fax: +41 22 327-7575. E-mail [email protected].

European Journal of Psychological Assessment 22(2):p 126-131, 2006.

The main purpose of this study was to validate a French version of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). A sample of 224 young adults completed the French translation of the CERQ and the Beck Depression Inventory II. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses showed that a nine-factor model also explained the data collected with the French version. Internal reliability scores for each strategy ranged from .68 to .87. As in the original version, we found that the emotion regulation strategies could be grouped into adaptive and less adaptive cognitive regulation strategies. In addition, we observed that Self-blame and Rumination are key cognitive regulation strategies predicting whether high or low depressive symptoms are reported.