Social anxiety disorder (SAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) are highly comorbid,
and together they result in greater functional impairment and a poorer prognosis than either …

The connection between chronic psychological stress and the onset of various diseases,
including diabetes, HIV, cancer, and cardiovascular conditions, is well documented. This …

Abstract The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) is a 10-item self-report measure of 2
emotion regulation strategies, cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. It is a …

Alexithymia is an important mental health construct, but there is continuing debate regarding
its definition and measurement. We attempt to resolve this definitional uncertainty in two …

Alexithymia is a trait comprising people's ability to focus attention on and accurately
appraise their own emotions. Its assessment is of clinical interest because people who have …

Emotion regulation problems underlie the abnormal levels of negative or positive emotion
that characterise many forms of psychopathology. Several self-report measures of emotion …

Abstract The 10-item Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) was developed by Gross
and John (2003) to measure the habitual use of 2 emotion regulation strategies: reappraisal …

Objective The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS) as a performance task
discriminates between implicit or subconscious and explicit or conscious levels of emotional …

Abstract The 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) is a self-report questionnaire
designed to measure the three components of alexithymia; difficulty identifying feelings in …

Although research on emotion regulation (ER) is develo**, little attention has been paid to
the predictive power of ER strategies beyond established constructs. The present study …