Evaluación de la regulación emocional: indicadores psicométricos del instrumento RPA en población española

Abstract

En la investigación clínica, el afecto positivo ha recibido menos atención que su dimensión paralela: el afecto negativo. Este trabajo analiza las propiedades psicométricas de la Escala de Afectividad Positiva (Response to Positive Affect), para su adaptación al castellano y validación en población española. La escala mide las respuestas a las emociones experimentadas ante situaciones positivas (regulación emocional). Según los autores de la escala, está compuesta por tres factores: Amortiguación, Rumia positiva centrada en la emoción y Rumia positiva centrada en la persona. Se llevaron a cabo análisis factoriales

Construct validity and psychometric properties of the Responses to Positive Affect (RPA) questionnaire

“…In this study we isolated two factors in the RPA compared to the three factors extracted in the studies reviewed (Feldman et al, 2008;Hidalgo-García et al, 2019;Krais et al, 2019;Olofsson et al, 2014;Raes et al, 2009;Yang & Guo 2014). This is consistent with other studies (Abasi et al, 2018;Voss et al, 2019).…”

“…Results showed that the two-factor structure had better fit in all the analyses, with adequate indices (Hu & Bentler, 1999;Kline, 2015). Measurement invariance tests showed total configural, metric, scalar and strict invariance across gender (Hidalgo-García et al, 2019).…”

“…Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses have identified a three-factor structure comprised of the factors "emotion-focused rumination", "self-focused rumination", and "dampening" (Dempsey et al, 2011;Feldman et al, 2008;Olofsson et al, 2014). These three factors have been replicated in several samples from different countries such as Sweden, China, the Netherlands and Spain (Hidalgo-García et al, 2019;Krais et al, 2019;Olofsson et al, 2014;Raes et al, 2009;Yang & Guo 2014). Studies have found correlations ranging from 0.44 to 0.90 between emotion-focused rumination and self-focused rumination (Hidalgo-García et al, 2019;McEvoy et al, 2018McEvoy et al, , 2021Mennies et al, 2020).…”

“…These three factors have been replicated in several samples from different countries such as Sweden, China, the Netherlands and Spain (Hidalgo-García et al, 2019;Krais et al, 2019;Olofsson et al, 2014;Raes et al, 2009;Yang & Guo 2014). Studies have found correlations ranging from 0.44 to 0.90 between emotion-focused rumination and self-focused rumination (Hidalgo-García et al, 2019;McEvoy et al, 2018McEvoy et al, , 2021Mennies et al, 2020).…”

“…In the study with the German sample, three items were eliminated, since two showed cross loadings greater than 0.30 in both factors, namely items 1 ("Think about how happy you feel") and 8 ("Think about how strong you feel"); moreover, the loadings of item 6 ("Savor this moment") were not large enough in either of the two factors, so the 14 remaining items were subjected to a CFA (Voss et al, 2019). In another study with a sample of patients with bipolar disorder, two items were allowed to correlate with each other (rxy=.65) to improve the proposed model (items 11 ("Remind yourself these feelings won't last") and 2 ("My streak of luck will end soon"); in addition, item 6, mentioned above, had very low loadings on the factor and was eliminated (Kraiss et al, 2019); 2) in the studies in which three factors were isolated, emotion-focused rumination and self-focused rumination showed correlations ranging from 0.44 to 0.90 (McEvoy et al, 2018(McEvoy et al, , 2021Mennies et al, 2020) and in Spain, the correlation was 0.59 (Hidalgo-García et al, 2019); 3) perhaps due to the lack of a validated construct validity, the convergent and discriminant validity of the factors isolated by the RPA were not completely clear, particularly regarding the relationships between the two factors of the RPA and brooding and reflection, mentioned above; 4) we are not aware of any studies on the measurement invariance of the RPA regarding gender, except for one study (Hidalgo-García et al, 2019); 5) we are not aware of any studies that have explored the relationships between responses to positive affect and constructs related to positive affect, such as life satisfaction (Diener et al, 1985) and distress endurance (Gámez et al, 2011).…”