Middle East Current Psychiatry
Psychometric properties of the Irritability and Dysregulation of Emotion Scale (TIDES-13) and Emotional Outburst Inventory (EMO-I) in a transdiagnostic sample of Turkish youth
Abstract Objective Irritability is a transdiagnostic phenomenon within the irritability-anger-aggression spectrum, but available measures often fail to capture its multifaceted nature. This study evaluated the psychometric properties and clinical utility of two new measures: the Emotional Outburst Inventory (EMO-I), assessing phasic irritability phenomenology, and the Irritability and Dysregulation of Emotion Scale (TIDES-13), designed as a multidimensional measure. Method In a clinical sample of 113 Turkish childr …