This repository includes the scripts used for replicate the results of the publication of the German version of the Flexible Regulation of Emotional Expression (FREE) (in revision), evaluating the relationship between suppress and enhance emotions expression abilities with traits of mental health and well-being.
Copyright (C) 2020, Contributor: Gabriel Gonzalez-Escamilla
The code was written mostly in Matlab (see geg_flexStats.m; dependencies are included in the extrafunctions folder). The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was perform in R. There is also code for chrombach's alpha in R. For personal (software usage) resons the Chrombach's alpha dor the FREE-scale was computed in R but then confirmed and perform for the rest of the questionnaires in Matlab.
The Excel file (mostly in German) contains the individual item data (cheet: ItemData) as well the the scored data (Sheet: SummaryScores). See the "coding" sheet to get some further information. In the ItemData sheet, recoding has been perform to all items that required it. This recoding step was automatized in SoSciSurvey to avoid human error.
The German version of the FREE-scale can be found at:
LICENCE
The scirpts and code are free but copyright software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation (either version, as given in file LICENCE.txt, or at your option, any later version). Further details on "copyleft" can be found at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/.