Measuring Emotional Reactivity: Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Versions of the Perth Emotional Reactivity Scale (PERS) and its Short Form (PERS-S)

Year 2024, Volume: 16 Issue: Supplement 1, 262 - 280

Ceren Gökdağ , Elif Yüvrük , Rodrigo Becerra

https://doi.org/10.18863/pgy.1539548

Abstract

Objective: Individual differences in emotional reactivity are generally investigated using psychophysiological measures and self-report scales. This study aimed to adapt the Perth Emotional Reactivity Scale (PERS) and its short form (PERS-S), which assess individual differences in emotional reactivity to positive and negative emotions with three subscales (activation, intensity, and duration), into Turkish.
Method: Participants (N=393, 73% female; for usable data) completed the PERS and other related measures including positive and negative affect, emotion dysregulation, and psychological distress symptoms.
Results: Confirmatory factor analyses supported the 6-factor structure of both the PERS and PERS-S. Results also showed that the Turkish versions of the scales can be used as 6- or 2-factor scales, depending on the research interest (PERS: χ2/df = 4.15, CFI=0.9, NFI= 0.9, RMSEA= 0.09 [0.085 - 0.094]; PERS-S= χ2/df = 3.19, CFI=0.96, NFI=0.94, RMSEA= 0.075 [0.067 - 0.083]). The positive and negative emotional reactivity subscales showed satisfactory internal consistencies (all ’s > .63) and two-week test-retest reliability levels (all r’s > .62) and were correlated with emotion dysregulation, psychopathology, and positive/negative affect.
Conclusion: The Turkish versions of PERS and PERS-S are reliable and valid tools for measuring individual differences in emotional reactivity.

Keywords

emotion, emotional reactivity, Perth Emotional Reactivity Scale, reliability, validity

Ethical Statement

The Manisa Celal Bayar University Ethics Committee granted the relevant approval for this study (Protocol No: E--050.01.04-69564). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committees and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

Supporting Institution

This study was not funded by any agency.

Thanks

This study was not preregistered. The preliminary findings of the present study were presented at the 21st National Psychology Congress in Istanbul-Turkey. The data supporting this study's findings are publicly available from the OSF link (https://osf.io/kgfrw/). The authors would like to thank Dr. David Preece for their helpful comments on the analyses of this paper.

Duygusal Tepkiselliğin Ölçülmesi: Perth Duygusal Tepkisellik Ölçeği (PDTÖ) ve Kısa Formunun (PDTÖ-KF) Türkçe Versiyonlarının Güvenilirlik ve Geçerliliği

Abstract

Amaç: Duygusal tepkisellikteki bireysel farklılıklar genellikle psikofizyolojik ölçümler ve öz bildirim ölçekleri kullanılarak incelenmektedir.Bu çalışmanın amacı, pozitif ve negatif duygular için duygusal tepkiselliğin bireysel farklılıklarını üç alt ölçekle (aktivasyon, yoğunluk ve süre) değerlendiren Perth Duygusal Tepkisellik Ölçeği (PDTÖ) ve kısa formunu (PDTÖ-KF) Türkçeye uyarlamaktır.
Yöntem: Katılımcılar (N=393, %73 kadın; kullanılabilir veri için) PDTÖ’yü ve pozitif ve negatif duygulanım, duygu düzenlemede güçlükler ve psikolojik sıkıntı belirtileri gibi diğer ilgili ölçümleri yanıtlamıştır.
Bulgular: Doğrulayıcı faktör analizleri hem PDTÖ hem de PDTÖ-KF'nin 6 faktörlü yapısını doğrulamıştır. Ayrıca, sonuçlar ölçeklerin Türkçe versiyonlarının, araştırmanın odağına bağlı olacak şekilde 6 ya da 2 faktörlü olarak kullanılabileceğini göstermiştir (PERS: χ2/df = 4,15, CFI=0,9, NFI= 0,9, RMSEA= 0,09 [0,085 – 0,094; PERS-S= χ2/df = 3,19, CFI=0,96, NFI=0,94, RMSEA= 0,075 [0,067 – 0,083]). Pozitif ve negatif duygusal tepkisellik alt ölçeklerinden alınan puanların iç tutarlık katsayılarının tatmin edici olduğu görülmüş (all ’s > 0,63), iki haftalık test tekrar test güvenilirlik düzeyleri orta ve yüksek seviyede çıkmış (all r’s > 0,62) ve bu puanlar duygu düzenleme güçlüğü, psikopatoloji ve pozitif/negatif duygulanım ile korelasyon göstermiştir.
Sonuç: PDTÖ ve PDTÖ-KF’nin Türkçe versiyonlarının duygusal tepkisellikteki bireysel farklılıkları ölçmek için güvenilir ve geçerli araçlar olduğu gösterilmiştir.

Keywords

duygu, duygusal tepkisellik, Perth Duygusal Tepkisellik Ölçeği, güvenirlik, geçerlik

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