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The authors consider the generalized version of the quadratic functional equation \[ f(\alpha x+y)+f(x-\alpha y)=(1+\alpha^2)(f(x)+f(y)).\tag{1} \] where \(f\) is a mapping between left Banach modules \({_B}\mathbb{B}_1\) and \({_B}\mathbb{B}_2\) over a Banach algebra \(B\), \(x,y\in{_B}\mathbb{B}_1\) and \(\alpha\in B\), \(| \alpha| =1\). They extend the result of \textit{A.\ Grabiec} [Publ.\ Math.\ Debrecen 48, 217--235 (1996)] proving that if \(f\) is measurable (or possesses other regularity assumption) and satisfies the inequality \[ \| f(\alpha x+y)+f(x-\alpha y)-(1+\alpha^2)(f(x)+f(y))\| \leq\phi(x,y),\quad x,y\in{_B}\mathbb{B}_1,\;\alpha\in B,| \alpha| =1 \] with a given mapping \(\phi:\;{_B}\mathbb{B}_1\times {_B}\mathbb{B}_2\to\mathbb{R}_{+}\) satisfying suitable assumptions, then there exists a unique \(B\)-quadratic mapping \(Q\) (i.e., satisfying the equation (1) and \(Q(ax)=a^2Q(x)\) for \(a\in B\), \(x\in{_B}\mathbb{B}_1\)) and such that \(f\) is, in some sense, close to \(Q\). Similar results are obtained for the equation \[ f(\alpha x+y)+f(x-\alpha y)=(1+\widehat{\alpha})(f(x)+f(y)) \] for the case where \(B\) is a Banach \(\ast\)-algebra and \(\widehat{a}=aa^{\ast}, a^{\ast}a\) or \(\frac{aa^{\ast}+a^{\ast}a}{2}\). Several corollaries of the main results are also presented.