Development and validation of interpersonal emotion regulation questionnaire for healthcare workers / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

Objective:To develop the interpersonal emotion regulation questionnaire for healthcare workers and examine its reliability and validity.Methods:Based on the theory of social regulatory cycle (SRC), literatures review and semi-structured interview were used to form the item pool of the scale.Through expert consultation, project analysis and the exploratory factor analysis, the scale items were screened, and the interpersonal emotion regulation questionnaire for healthcare workers was initially formed.The convenient sampling method was adopted to select 619 healthcare workers from multiple hospitals in Anhui province to conduct the formal survey to test the reliability and validity of the questionnaire and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using the SPSS 24.0 and Mplus 8.0 software.Results:There were 18 items and four dimensions including emotion identification, motivation, regulation strategy and implementation strategy process in the interpersonal emotion regulation questionnaire for healthcare workers.The results of CFA showed that the questionnaire fitted the data with well construct validity.The correlation coefficients between each dimension and the scale were 0.830-0.932.The Cronbach’s α coefficient of the overall questionnaire was 0.962, the split-half reliability was 0.880 and the test-retest reliability was 0.786.The score of total questionnaire was significantly positively correlated with the score of emotional intelligence ( r=0.680, P<0.001) and empathic ability ( r=0.554, P<0.001), and was significantly negatively correlated with the doctor-patient relationship ( r=-0.353, P<0.001). Conclusion:The interpersonal emotion regulation questionnaire for healthcare workers has satisfactory reliability and validity, which can be used to measure the ability of interpersonal emotion regulation in healthcare workers.

Evaluación de una intervención para la mejora de las competencias de regulación interpersonal del afecto y el bienestar laboral en una muestra de operadores penitenciarios del Uruguay / Evaluation of a Training Program aiming to Improve Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies and Occupational Wellbeing in a Uruguayan Prison

Resumen Según estudios previos, el uso de estrategias controladas para la regulación interpersonal (ECRI) del afecto de otros orientadas a su mejora incrementa el bienestar de quien las emplea, mientras el uso de ECRI para empeorar el afecto lo deteriora. El consumo y recuperación de recursos de autoregulación de cada ECRI explican estos resultados. Mediante un diseño cuasiexperimental se evalúa la eficacia de la formación en ECRI para mejorar el bienestar en operadores de prisiones. Los resultados reflejan mayor bienestar y menor uso de ECRI de empeoramiento tras la formación (N= 21), al comparar con el grupo control (N= 18). No hubo diferencias para las ECRI de mejora. Los cambios en las ECRI de empeoramiento predicen negativamente cambios en el bienestar.

Abstract Previous research show a positive relationship between using IARS to improve other people's affect and the level of wellbeing of the agent implementing them, whereas using IARS to worsen other's affect can worsen the agent's wellbeing. These results can be explained as the balance between the self-control resources drained and recovered by each IARS. We evaluate the efficacy of a training program to increase prison officers' wellbeing and focused on IARS. Results, based on a quasi-experimental design, revealed a higher level of wellbeing and a lower increased on worsening strategies among the training participants (N=21), compared with a control group (N=18). Results were not significant for improving strategies. Changes in the use of IARS negatively predicted changes in wellbeing.