1. A novel multidimensional questionnaire for the assessment of emotional dysregulation in adolescents: Reactivity, Intensity, Polarity and Stability questionnaire–youth version (RIPoSt–Y)
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Elena Valente, Flavia Drago, Stefano Berloffa, Francesca Placini, Anna Rita Montesanto, Gianluca Sesso, Nina Loriaux, Agnese Molesti, Gabriele Masi, Simone Pisano, Annarita Milone, Valentina Viglione, Silvia Boldrini, Sesso, Gianluca, Milone, Annarita, Drago, Flavia, Viglione, Valentina, Berloffa, Stefano, Boldrini, Silvia, Loriaux, Nina, Valente, Elena, Molesti, Agnese, Placini, Francesca, Montesanto, Anna Rita, Pisano, Simone, and Masi, Gabriele
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Psychometrics ,Adolescent ,Bipolar disorder ,Emotions ,Concurrent validity ,Reproducibility of Result ,Emotional dysregulation ,CBCL ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,medicine ,Humans ,ADHD ,Surveys and Questionnaire ,Reactivity (psychology) ,Emotion ,Schools ,Questionnaire ,Reproducibility of Results ,Construct validity ,medicine.disease ,030227 psychiatry ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Clinical Psychology ,Convergent validity ,Self Report ,Psychology ,Construct (philosophy) ,Psychometric ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Human ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Background The failure to regulate emotions, namely emotional dysregulation (ED), is a relevant construct in adolescent psychiatry, in terms of prognostic and developmental implications. We developed and validated a novel self-report questionnaire for the assessment of ED, the RIPoSt-Y, both in clinical and non-clinical samples. Methods Items selection and subscales construction were conducted on healthy controls (n=374), while test-retest reliability was evaluated in a subsample (n=72); internal consistency was examined both in the control group and in two clinical samples, respectively including patients with Bipolar Spectrum Disorders (BSD; n=44) and ADHD (n=34). Construct, concurrent and convergent validity were also assessed. Results Thirty-one items were finally retained, and three subscales were identified (Affective Instability, Emotional Reactivity, Interpersonal Sensitivity). Test-retest was significant for each subscale with moderate-to-good correlations, and internal consistency showed good-to-excellent coefficients. Construct validity was supported by significant differences between patients and controls and gender-related differences. Concurrent validity was confirmed through significant associations with two subscales of the CHT-Q, while convergent validity proved to be significant with the CBCL/YSR dysregulation-profile. Cut-offs were also computed to discriminate clinically significant scores of ED. Limitations The use of a school-based survey to recruit controls could have biased our results; gender distributions between clinical and non-clinical samples were significantly different. Conclusions Our novel questionnaire proved to be a valid and reliable tool able to assess the presence of ED in youths and to characterize this fundamental construct in its multidimensional facets.
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- 2021