Introduction: Championship sport due to high level of stress, serious trainings and being in the process of competition, require emotion regulation (Hanin, 2007, Gold & Maynard ,2009). Therefore one of the researchers’ concerns is to find an efficient instrument to evaluate emotion regulation of athletes (Uphill, Lane & Jones, 2012). In this regards, the purpose of this research is to investigate psychometric features of English version of gross emotion regulation questionnaire among athletes.
Methodology: The research sample was 300 athletes (male and female) with different skill levels (amateur, non-elite and elite) that were selected from Karaj town, using random cluster sampling. The athletes filled out the translated version of Gross emotion regulation questionnaire and questionnaire of positive and negative emotions.
Results: The content validity of translated questionnaire were confirmed by experts of psychology and sport sciences. Based on the results of exploratory factor analysis, two-factor structure obtained that described variance equal to 84.52. Also the results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that two-factor structure of emotion regulation (repression, re-evaluation) have appropriate fitness. Moreover, there is positive correlation between re-evaluation and positive emotion and between repression and negative emotion. Evaluating the reliability of the scale obtained 0.65 for repression and 0.82 for re-evaluation using internal consistency of Cronbach's alpha.
Discussion: The results showed that the persian version of gross emotion regulation questionnaire has acceptable reliability and validity coefficients and is a suitable instrument to measure emotion regulation in research and clinical purposes of athletes.