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Normative reference interval for youths on the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) Cover

Normative reference interval for youths on the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)

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|Dec 2024

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FIGURE 1.

Reference interval for DERS-T in youths from community-based populations and healthy volunteers.The range for the DERS-T is 36 to 180. The reference interval for Community stems from studies using background population data including youths experiencing heightened levels of psychopathology. The reference interval for healthy volunteers stem from studies including youths as symptom-free and psychiatrically healthy. The black reference intervals represent the dispersion of DERS-T from individual studies. The blue reference intervals represent the combined dispersion from three groups respectively: Community-based population (46.0–122.9), healthy volunteers (43.6–109.4), and all (45.5–121.8).
Reference interval for DERS-T in youths from community-based populations and healthy volunteers.The range for the DERS-T is 36 to 180. The reference interval for Community stems from studies using background population data including youths experiencing heightened levels of psychopathology. The reference interval for healthy volunteers stem from studies including youths as symptom-free and psychiatrically healthy. The black reference intervals represent the dispersion of DERS-T from individual studies. The blue reference intervals represent the combined dispersion from three groups respectively: Community-based population (46.0–122.9), healthy volunteers (43.6–109.4), and all (45.5–121.8).

Study characteristics

Community-basedHealthy controls
Number of studies – n2014
Total number of participants – n6,960766
Age – mean (SD)115.25 (1.7)14.77 (1.8)
Sex – n (%)
  Female4221 (60.6)381 (49.7)
  Male2732 (39.3)385 (50.3)
  Other7 (0.1)0 (0)
Main nationality – nAustralia (1)Denmark (1)
China (2)Norway (1)
Hungary (1)Turkey (12)
India (1)
Iran (1)
Italy (4)
Portugal (1)
Spain (1)
Sweden (1)
Turkey (1)
UK (2)
USA (4)
DERS-T score – weighted mean (SD)84.4 (23.4)76.5 (20.0)
Language: English
Published on: Dec 31, 2024
Published by: Psychiatric Research Unit
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2024 Christine Lykke Thoustrup, Markus Harboe Olsen, published by Psychiatric Research Unit
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