The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale – Short Form (DERS-SF): psychometric properties and invariance between genders

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Table 6 Descriptive analysis and gender differences of DERS-SF

Variable	Men sample (n = 246)			Women sample (n = 400)			F (1, 644)^a
Variable	α	M	SD	α	M	SD	F (1, 644)^a
Strategies	0.87	5.78	2.95	0.85	6.32	3.11	4.699*
Goals	0.92	7.48	3.45	0.90	7.98	3.34	0.874
Impulse	0.89	5.42	2.79	0.87	5.60	2.91	0.552
Clarity	0.76	5.63	2.47	0.78	5.86	2.61	3.456
Awareness	0.73	7.20	2.89	0.69	6.95	2.78	1.168
Non-Acceptance	0.75	6.20	2.66	0.79	6.42	2.98	1.230
Difficulties in emotion regulation total score	0.90	37.72	12.13	0.90	39.13	12.69	1.965

α Cronbach’s alpha, M mean, SD standard deviation, DERS-SF Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale – Short Form
*p < 0.05
^aOne-way ANOVA