the reliability and validity of the short form of the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire

aim and background: the aim of the present study was to develop a short form of the persian version of the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (cerq-p-short) and to examine its reliability and validity. methods and materials: the cerq-p was administrated to 420 (220 male and 200 female) iranian university students in 2009-2010 academic year. following stepwise omission of the items with the highest ‘alpha if item deleted’ on the basis of reliability analyses results, the cerq-p-short was constructed. the validity of this questionnaire was assessed through the principal component analysis using varimax rotation, correlations between subscales, and criterion validity. findings: the results of cronbach’s alpha (ranged from 0.68 to 0.82) showed that the nine subscales of the cerq-p-short possessed good reliability. principal component analysis explained 75% of the variance and supported the original nine-factor cerq model. the correlations among the subscales were moderately high. finally, with respect to criterion validity, several cerq-p-short subscales were uniquely associated with symptoms of depression. conclusions: the short form of persian version of the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (cerq-p) has good psychometric properties.