PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE TURKISH VERSION OF THE PERCEIVED INVALIDATION OF EMOTION SCALE

Zielinski and Veilleux (2018) developed the Perceived Invalidation of Emotions Scale (PIES) to measure people's perceptions of ignored or invalidated emotion sharing.Since there is no instrument assessing emotion invalidation for the Turkish sample, this study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the scale and adapt it into Turkish.Method: The original scale was first translated into Turkish and then back into the original language.390 adults aged 18-65 years participated in the study.Participants were given Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Short Form (DERS-16), the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), the Psychological Vulnerability Scale (PVS), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) to check for criterion-related validity.Results: The confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the obtained values were acceptable.As a result of the correlation analyses conducted to determine the criterion-related validity of the PIES, it was revealed that there were positive, low-medium significant relationships with the PIES.According to the results of the study, Cronbach's alpha coefficients of PIES were found to be 0.86, respectively. Conclusion:The findings of the present study show that the Turkish version of PIES is a reliable and valid measurement tool.