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Local export of the completed proxy run, domain scores, guidance blocks, and full answer ledger.
Emotion regulation is the set of skills that helps you notice feelings, name them accurately, stay directed while upset, slow impulsive reactions, avoid piling shame on top of distress, and reach for a response that actually helps. When one of those skills drops out, the problem is often not the first feeling alone but what happens next.
The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, or DERS, became widely used because it separates that problem into multiple domains instead of treating regulation as one vague strength or weakness. This page follows that general idea with an original 18-item proxy built around six DERS-style domains: awareness, clarity, goals, impulse, nonacceptance, and strategies.
That makes the result useful when you already know that emotions have been harder to handle recently and want to see where the friction is coming from. One person may mainly lose task focus. Another may stay productive but add self-criticism on top of distress. Another may know exactly what they feel yet still have very few ways to settle down.
The output is a regulation-strain review, not a diagnosis and not an official DERS-18 score. The tool uses original item wording and local interpretation bands. A high result can still come from short-term overload, grief, conflict, illness, or sleep disruption rather than a fixed long-term trait.
The proxy uses eighteen items rated from 1 - Almost never to 5 - Almost always. Three items feed each of the six domains. The awareness items are reverse keyed so higher keyed values consistently mean more regulation friction across the full result.
The total score is the sum of all keyed item values, giving a possible range from 18 to 90. Each domain runs from 3 to 15. The total is useful for general load, while the six-domain pattern shows where the load is building. A high total driven by Impulse and Strategies means something different from the same total driven by Clarity and Nonacceptance.
| Domain | Meaning on this page | Items | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Awareness | Noticing emotional shifts and body cues early enough to work with them | 3 | 3 to 15 |
| Clarity | Knowing which feeling is actually driving the moment | 3 | 3 to 15 |
| Goals | Staying with the next useful task when emotion rises | 3 | 3 to 15 |
| Impulse | Holding words and actions long enough to respond rather than react | 3 | 3 to 15 |
| Nonacceptance | Not adding shame, criticism, or embarrassment on top of the original emotion | 3 | 3 to 15 |
| Strategies | Having a response that can actually move you toward steadier ground | 3 | 3 to 15 |
| Total band | Lower | Upper | Meaning on this page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lighter friction | 18 | 35 | Comparatively lighter overall regulation strain in the current run |
| Situational strain | 36 | 53 | Strain is present but may still be concentrated in certain moments or domains |
| Persistent strain | 54 | 71 | Regulation friction is showing up across multiple parts of the profile |
| Heavy overload | 72 | 90 | Repeated, broad regulation load that deserves closer review and earlier support |
Each domain also gets a local friction label: Light friction from 3 to 5, Watch zone from 6 to 8, Clear friction from 9 to 11, and Heavy friction from 12 to 15. The page can also highlight priority items at either 4+ or 5 only, compare the current total with a prior run, and export the strain dial, six-domain pattern chart, answer table, and JSON record.
The strongest first pass is to keep the recall window steady. This tool asks about the last two weeks, so try not to mix one unusually hard day with your broader usual style. If the last two weeks were completely atypical, treat the result as a snapshot of overload rather than as a trait statement.
Read the total band first, then the six-domain chart. After that, check the priority items and the current anchors. The anchors are important because a high total rarely means every regulation skill is equally strained. A person can have trouble with Clarity and Strategies while still holding onto decent Impulse control, and that changes what a realistic next step looks like.
A practical trust check is to compare the highest domain with what actually happens in real life. If Goals is highest but your real problem is saying or doing things too fast, revisit the answers before building a plan around the output.
Almost never to Almost always. The progress bar and question list will show completion status.What this result suggests summary first.Regulation Strain Dial for overall load and the Six-Domain Regulation Pattern chart for the shape of the strain.The total tells you how much regulation friction is showing up across the whole proxy. The domain pattern tells you where that friction is concentrated.
Do not read the result as “bad at emotions.” High Awareness friction means feelings are hard to catch early. High Nonacceptance friction means shame or self-criticism is adding a second wave. High Strategies friction means the main problem may be not knowing what will actually help once activation is already underway.
Example 1: A person scores 58, which lands in Persistent strain. The highest domains are Goals and Strategies. That profile suggests the main problem is losing task direction and not having reachable ways to settle down once upset.
Example 2: Another run scores 43, which lands in Situational strain. Nonacceptance is highest while Impulse is relatively lower. The practical reading is that the person may still hold behavior together but is adding harsh self-talk on top of difficult feelings.
Example 3: A repeat score drops from 67 to 54. The band stays the same, but the change still matters. If the quieting domains are Strategies and Awareness, the improvement is probably more meaningful than the unchanged band label suggests.
No. The page uses original proxy wording aligned to the six DERS-style domains. Its total and domain bands are local interpretation guides, not published DERS cut points.
Because the awareness items describe successful noticing. Reversing them keeps higher keyed values consistently tied to more regulation friction.
Priority items are the strongest current friction points based on the selected threshold. Anchors are the relatively steadier items that may still give you something usable to build on.
Routine scoring happens in the browser. The main privacy caveat is the restorable answer string in the URL and anything you choose to export.