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. 2022 Aug 9;21(1):221.
doi: 10.1186/s12912-022-00992-1.

Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Brief Emotion and Regulation Beliefs Scale in Chinese nursing students

Dongmei Zhang  1 , Liu Yang  2 , Congzhi Wang  2 , Ting Yuan  3 , Huanhuan Wei  3 , Jing Li  4 , Yunxiao Lei  3 , Lu Sun  5 , Xiaoping Li  5 , Ying Hua  6 , Mingming Liu  4 , Haiyang Liu #  7 , Lin Zhang #  8
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Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Brief Emotion and Regulation Beliefs Scale in Chinese nursing students

Dongmei Zhang et al. BMC Nurs. .

Abstract

Background: Nursing students are experiencing complex learning environments and will experience complex work environments in future clinical work, which lead to emotional problems easily. However, one's beliefs about controlling their emotions portend a series of vital psychological outcomes. So, it is especially important to search for suitable tools to assess the emotion and regulation beliefs of nursing students and give timely intervention to improve their physical and mental health. This study aimed to translate the American version of the Emotion and Regulation Beliefs Scale (ERBS) into Chinese, revise the original scale and form a simplified version, and assess the reliability and validity of the brief Chinese version in nursing students.

Methods: The study adopted a cross-sectional design and the multistage sampling design. The ERBS was translated into Chinese, and the reliability and validity of the Chinese version were tested in 980 nursing students.

Results: The content validity index was 0.920. Exploratory factor analysis supported a three-factor model for the Chinese version of Brief-ERBS, and confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the model fit the Brief-ERBS well. Furthermore, the three-factors model was obtained by using exploratory factor analysis, explaining 51.023% variance, and the communalities of the items ranged from 0.359 to 0.680. With modified confirmatory factor analysis, the fit indices were chi-square/degree of freedom (CMIN/DF) = 4.092, goodness of fit index (GFI) = 0.949, adjusted goodness of fit index (AGFI) = 0.927, comparative fit index (CFI) = 0.913, incremental fit index (IFI) = 0.914, Tucker Lewis index (TLI) = 0.908, root-mean-square error of approximation (RMSEA) = 0.061. The two-tailed independent samples t-test showed the scores of the top (50%) and low (50%) groups reached the level of significance (P < 0.001). A highly positive correlation between the Brief-ERBS total score and the ERBS total score was found (r = 0.972, P < 0.01). The Cronbach's α coefficient of the scale was 0.798, the split-half reliability coefficient was 0.784, and the retest coefficient was 0.879.

Conclusion: The Chinese version of Brief-ERBS has good reliability and validity, and may be used for the beliefs about emotional management in Chinese nursing students.

Keywords: Emotions; Nursing; Reliability; Students; Validity.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Standardized three-factors structural model of Brief-ERBS (n = 980); F1(Regulation Worth, six items), F2(Hijack, four items), and F3(Emotion Constraint, four items)
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Standardized three-factors structural model of the modified Brief-ERBS (n = 980); F1(Regulation Worth, six items), F2(Hijack, four items), and F3(Emotion Constraint, four items)
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