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should investigate the test-retest reliability of the scale. Al-
though emotion regulation strategies have been proposed to be
habitual (Wood, Quinn, & Kashy, 2002), the extent to which
they would be used in a specific situation will relate to emo-
tional states. Emotions are transitory constructs and each com-
petition carries a degree of uncertainty that will also tend to
vary, and therefore, if regulatory efforts are needed before one
particular race, but not before another, it is possible that
test-retest relationships could be weak in cross-sectional studies.
It is important to show that the scale has sufficient sensitivity,
and that relationships between emotion and emotion regulation
are invariant even if the relative frequency of usage and inten-
sity of emotions changes.
In conclusion, we suggest that the emotion regulation scale
shows a promising degree of validity for use in running. We
suggest that future validation work should develop specific
behavioral items for use in running.
Acknowledgements
The support of the Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC) UK is gratefully acknowledged (RES-060-25-0044:
“Emotion regulation of others and self [EROS])”.
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