Appendix E
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)
The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire is designed to assess individual differences in the
habitual use of two emotion regulation strategies: cognitive reappraisal and expressive
suppression.
Instructions and Items
We would like to ask you some questions about your emotional life, in particular, how you
control (that is, regulate and manage) your emotions. The questions below involve two distinct
aspects of your emotional life. One is your emotional experience, or what you feel like inside.
The other is your emotional expression, or how you show your emotions in the way you talk,
gesture, or behave. Although some of the following questions may seem similar to one another,
they differ in important ways. For each item, please answer using the following scale: