ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Emotion Science
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1627567
This article is part of the Research TopicCulture and Emotion in Educational Dynamics - Volume IVView all 6 articles
Validation of the Chinese version of Emotion Regulation Strategies for Artistic Creative Activities Scale (ERS-ACA-C) among Chinese College Students Majoring in Art and Design
Provisionally accepted
- 1Department of Public Art and Design, School of Fine Arts, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
- 2Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Shanghai Pudong New Area Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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Aim: Translating the Emotion Regulation Strategies for Artistic Creative Activities Scale (ERS-ACA) into Chinese and adapting it for Chinese college students majoring in art and design.Methods: Translated ERS-ACA into Chinese using a cross-cultural adaptation approach, and validated its psychometric properties among Chinese college students majoring in art and design. Three hundred and thirty-eight Chinese college students majoring in art and design were collected to test the scale's reliability and validity, of which 150 students were retested two weeks later. Another 200 college students majoring in art and design were selected to perform Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA).Results: Item 1 of the Chinese version of ERS-ACA (ERS-ACA-C) was removed for its low correlation with the total score of ERS-ACA-C. We got the ERS-ACA-C with 17 items. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) revealed that ERS-ACA-C has a general factor and three factors, consisting of 17 items. The explained variance of ERS-ACA-C was 61.098%. CFA validated that the three-factor model fit the data of ERS-ACA-C. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of ERS-ACA-C and its three factors was 0.883, 0.857, 0.875, and 0.854, respectively. Correlation analysis was performed between ERS-ACA-C and Self-Expression and Emotion Regulation in Art Making Scale (SERAMS) to calculate the criterion-related validity (r=0.721, p< 0.001). The correlation coefficient r of the ERS-ACA-C's test-retest reliability was 0.902 (p< 0.001). ERS-ACA-C's split-half reliability was 0.754(Spearman-Brown coefficient).ERS-ACA-C has relatively good reliability and validity. It can be used to assess the Emotion Regulation Strategies for Artistic Creative Activities of Chinese college students majoring in art and design in their artistic creative activities.
Keywords: Emotion Regulation, emotion regulation strategies, artistic creative activities, college students, Scale revision, Reliability, validity
Received: 13 May 2025; Accepted: 16 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Zhidao Shi, Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Shanghai Pudong New Area Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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