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AREQ
Affekt-Regulation und Affekt-Wahrnehmung Q-Sort Test
Short abstract
The aim of the test instrument is to diagnose the prevailing affect experience and the preferred affect regulation mechanisms of the patient. In 1994, Westen developed his "Model of Affect Regulation", according to which affects play a central role in personality. A maximum of 24 hours before the rating, an approximately 60-80-minute narrative clinical interview is conducted. The basic questions are given, but can be adapted, shortened or extended by the interviewer for the individual person and situation. The interview is divided into 12 subject areas, each with a main question and a different number of supplementary questions. The 12 subject areas are, for example, information on: (1) oneself as a person, (2) complaints and psychiatric medical history, (3) childhood, or (4) relationship with the mother with an event. Reliability: Not available. Validity: High correlations are reported on the scales "reality-focused answers" and "socializes negative affect" with external criteria such as the number of admissions in psychiatric hospitals and suicide attempts, the GAF score and the functional level of personality organization according to Kernberg.
Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID). (2019). Open Test Archive: AREQ. Affekt-Regulation und Affekt-Wahrnehmung Q-Sort Test. Available at: https://www.testarchiv.eu/en/test/9005431
Citation
Westen, D., Shedler, J. & Löffler-Stastka, H. (2009). AREQ. Affekt-Regulation und Affekt-Wahrnehmung Q-Sort Test [Verfahrensdokumentation, Autorenbeschreibung mit Itemliste]. In Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID) (Hrsg.), Open Test Archive. Trier: ZPID.
https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4525
Short information
Short Name AREQ
English Name Affect Regulation and Experience Q-Sort Test - German version
Authors Westen, D., Shedler, J., Löffler-Stastka, H.
Published in Test archive 2009
Copyright/Licence Copyright Authors; CC-BY-SA 4.0
Key words Psychoanalytic Theory, Defense Mechanisms, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Control, Emotional States, Stress Reactions, Cognitive Style, Coping Behavior
Language versions deu
Application age Adults
Item number 98 Items
Subscales (1) Affect experience with the factors: a Socializes negative affect, b Positive affect, c Intense negative affect, (2) Affect regulation with the factors: a Reality-focused response, b Externalizing defense, c Avoiding defense
Application Time 60-80 min.
Interpretation time 10-50 min.
No information.
Findings on Criterion-Based Validity.
None
Applications Personality diagnostics
There is no abstract in English available. Short information about the measure can be found under Overview. More can be found on the German pages.
There is no review in English available. Short information about the measure can be found under Overview. More can be found on the German pages.
First published in
Westen, D., Shedler, J. & Löffler-Stastka, H. (2004). Affekt-Regulation und Affekt-Wahrnehmung Q-Sort Test. Wien: Medizinische Universität Wien. PSYNDEX Dok.-Nr. 9005431
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Contact information
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Henriette Löffler-Stastka, Fachärztin für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapeutische Medizin, Psychoanalytikerin (Wiener Psychoanalytische Vereinigung/IPA), Universitätsklinik für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie Wien, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Wien, Österreich
Prof. Ph.D. Drew Westen, Emory College of Arts and Science, Department of Psychology, 36 Eagle Row, Atlanta, GA US-30322, USA