an earlier study, Roger and Nesshoever (Person. individ. 01% 8, 527-534, 1987) reported
the construction and validation of a scale for measuring emotion control entitled the Emotion Control
Questionnaire (ECQ). Factor analysis revealed a 4-factor structure comprising Rehearsal, Emotional
Inhibition, Aggression Control and Benign Control, which was replicated on an independent sample of
subjects. The earlier study also presented the relationships between the ECQ factors and a variety of other
personality scales. Subsequent work has shown that one of the ECQ factors in particular (Rehearsal) is
significantly related to both heart-rate recovery and urinary cortisol elevations following stress. However,
one of the disadvantages of the ECQ was the brevity of the factors, two of which (Emotional Inhibition
and Benign Control) comprised just nine items each, and the present study was aimed at extending the
range of behaviour sampled by the scale. Factor analyses of an expanded item pool confirmed the structure
of the earlier scale and resulted in a new scale comprising 56 items, fourteen in each of the four factors.
Other findings for the new scale (ECQ2) indicate that it is psychometrically equivalent to the original.
and further data on the concurrent validation of the emotion control construct are presented