TY - JOUR

T1 - Adaptation of the Russian-Language Version of the White Bear Suppression Inventory1

AU - Dorosheva, E. A.

N1 - Дорошева Е.А. Адаптация русскоязычной версии опросника подавления нежелательных мыслей (White Bear Suppression Inventory) // Сибирский психологический журнал. – 2024. – № 91. – С. 22-38. Результаты получены в ходе выполнения госзадания НИИНМ, регистрационный номер ЦИТиС: 122042700001-9.

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - Relevance and subject of the study. The tendency to suppress thoughts that are unpleasant or not acceptable by content is described as a way of self-regulation and as a strategy of coping behavior that has different degrees of success depending on the context of situation and individual characteristics of the subjects. Associations of suppression of unwanted thoughts intensity with anxiety and depressive states are shown. This study is devoted to adaptation of the Russian language version of the scale that measures the tendency to suppress unwanted thoughts (White bear depression inventory, WBSI). The inventory can be used in clinical diagnostics, for research purposes in the study of self-regulation, stress response, cognitive processes, and in study of the thought suppression construct. Research methods and materials. The total sample of the study comprised 1675 persons aged 16 to 70 years (average age 32.9), 470 men and 1205 women. To verify convergent validity, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21, the K. Ryff Scales of Psychological Well-Being, the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire, the D.V. Lucin Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire and the N. Hall Emotional Intelligence Test (emotion management scales), the Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (overall score, characterizing the possibility of self-regulation), Rumination Response Scale were used. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to check the scale structure (seven possible models), consistency of the scale and subscales determined by the results of the questionnaire structure verification were calculated. At three week intervals, retest reliability was checked. Descriptive statistics of the inventory were calculated. Results. The analysis of the factor structure of the scale showed the greatest suitability of two bifactor models with a common grouping factor and related subfactors, a model with a distribution of items in accordance with the theoretical structure of the questionnaire being the preferable one. The scale is characterized by high internal consistency (Cronbach alpha - 0.89) and retest reliability r = 0.91. Suppression of unwanted thoughts demonstrated positive correlation with anxiety, stress, depressive trends, ruminations; negative correlation with subjective well-being, self-estimate of the ability to manage one's own emotions are shown. Additionally, the lack of significant interactions with emotional intelligence components unrelated to emotion management indicates the divergent validity of the inventory. In general, it can be concluded that the proposed version of the WBSI has sufficiently good psychometric properties.

AB - Relevance and subject of the study. The tendency to suppress thoughts that are unpleasant or not acceptable by content is described as a way of self-regulation and as a strategy of coping behavior that has different degrees of success depending on the context of situation and individual characteristics of the subjects. Associations of suppression of unwanted thoughts intensity with anxiety and depressive states are shown. This study is devoted to adaptation of the Russian language version of the scale that measures the tendency to suppress unwanted thoughts (White bear depression inventory, WBSI). The inventory can be used in clinical diagnostics, for research purposes in the study of self-regulation, stress response, cognitive processes, and in study of the thought suppression construct. Research methods and materials. The total sample of the study comprised 1675 persons aged 16 to 70 years (average age 32.9), 470 men and 1205 women. To verify convergent validity, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21, the K. Ryff Scales of Psychological Well-Being, the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire, the D.V. Lucin Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire and the N. Hall Emotional Intelligence Test (emotion management scales), the Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (overall score, characterizing the possibility of self-regulation), Rumination Response Scale were used. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to check the scale structure (seven possible models), consistency of the scale and subscales determined by the results of the questionnaire structure verification were calculated. At three week intervals, retest reliability was checked. Descriptive statistics of the inventory were calculated. Results. The analysis of the factor structure of the scale showed the greatest suitability of two bifactor models with a common grouping factor and related subfactors, a model with a distribution of items in accordance with the theoretical structure of the questionnaire being the preferable one. The scale is characterized by high internal consistency (Cronbach alpha - 0.89) and retest reliability r = 0.91. Suppression of unwanted thoughts demonstrated positive correlation with anxiety, stress, depressive trends, ruminations; negative correlation with subjective well-being, self-estimate of the ability to manage one's own emotions are shown. Additionally, the lack of significant interactions with emotional intelligence components unrelated to emotion management indicates the divergent validity of the inventory. In general, it can be concluded that the proposed version of the WBSI has sufficiently good psychometric properties.

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U2 - 10.17223/17267080/91/2

DO - 10.17223/17267080/91/2

M3 - Article

SP - 22

EP - 38

JO - Sibirskiy Psikhologicheskiy Zhurnal

JF - Sibirskiy Psikhologicheskiy Zhurnal

SN - 1726-7080

IS - 91

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