| Summary: | This study aims to test the validity andreliability of the Turkish adaption of Hofmann, Carpenter and Curtis’ (2016)Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Scale (IERS).The original scale is comprised of four sub-dimensions; namely,enhancing positive affect, perspective taking, soothing, and social modeling.The study was carried out with 326 students from various departments of MedipolUniversity. Work on adapting the scale began with an attempt to find linguisticequivalence. After ensuring this linguistically equivalence for the scale’soriginal form, a Confirmatory Factor Analysis was launched to examine itsconstruct validity. The results of this confirmatory factor analysis revealedthat the four-factor original structure of the scale was also valid for theTurkish sample and the goodness of fit indices of the scale was withinacceptable limits. The Cronbach-Alpha internal consistency coefficient wasfound as .92 for the overall scale. The scale shows outstanding psychometriccharacteristics.
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