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Psychometric validation of the Italian version of the Emotional Style Questionnaire

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  • Francesca Malandrone
  • Alberto Catalano
  • Federica Carfì
  • Claudio Gentili
  • Silvia Bianchi
  • Francesco Oliva
  • Fulvio Ricceri
  • Luca Ostacoli
  • Pelin Kesebir
  • Richard J Davidson
  • Sara Carletto

Abstract

Emotional styles concern the ways in which individuals adapt and respond to the world and can be defined using six dimensions: outlook, resilience, social intuition, self-awareness, sensitivity to context and attention. The Emotional Style Questionnaire (ESQ) assesses how people vary across the dimensions and gauges an individual’s overall level of emotional health. An Italian version of the ESQ (ESQ-ITA) could favour the understanding of cultural characteristics concerning emotions and personality within the Italian population, with both clinical and social implications. The aim of the present study is to validate the ESQ in the Italian language and to assess its psychometric properties. Two studies were conducted. Study 1 examined construct validity, internal consistency, and test–retest reliability, through Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), Cronbach’s alpha estimates, and by estimating the Spearman’s rank correlation Study 2 examined construct validity and internal consistency through the CFA and Cronbach’s alpha estimates and investigated criterion validity by correlating the ESQ-ITA dimensions with the corresponding scales or subscales used for the validation estimating, again, the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient Study 2 also examined the criterion validity of the validated scales and the ESQ-ITA overall score to assess its suitability as an indicator of emotional health. ESQ-ITA was confirmed to be reliable and stable. The correlation between the ESQ-ITA overall score and the other scales and questionnaires supports the use of ESQ-ITA to measure emotional health. The Italian version of the ESQ opens up the possibility to enrich the research landscape with new knowledge that will be useful for advancing the pathogenetic and therapeutic aspects of psychological distress and emotional dysregulation.

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  • Francesca Malandrone & Alberto Catalano & Federica Carfì & Claudio Gentili & Silvia Bianchi & Francesco Oliva & Fulvio Ricceri & Luca Ostacoli & Pelin Kesebir & Richard J Davidson & Sara Carletto, 2022. "Psychometric validation of the Italian version of the Emotional Style Questionnaire," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(12), pages 1-14, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0278715
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278715
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    1. Min-Ying Tsai, 2025. "The Psychometric Properties and Typology of the Chinese Version of the Emotional Style Scale for Gifted Students in Middle School," SAGE Open, , vol. 15(1), pages 21582440251, February.

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