The emotion regulation questionnaire for children and adolescents (ERQ-CA): A psychometric evaluation

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 409-417

  Gullone, Eleonora ^a   Taffe, John ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Emotion regulation strategies; Gross emotion regulation model; Self report assessment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIG FIVE QUESTIONNAIRE FOR CHILDREN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMOTION REGULATION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EVALUATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84866951004     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025777     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Adrian, M., Zeman, J., & Veits, G. (2011). Methodological implications of the affect revolution: A 35-year review of emotion regulation assessment in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 110, 171-197.
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2008). 2006 census data: Melbourne. Retrieved from http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au
3. Balzarotti, S., John, O. P., & Gross, J. J. (2010). An Italian adaptation of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 26, 61-67. doi:10.1027/1015-5759/a000009
4. Barbaranelli, C., Caprara, G. V., Rabasca, A., & Pastorelli, C. (2003). A questionnaire for measuring the Big Five in late childhood. Personality and Individual Differences, 34, 645-664. doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00051-X
5. Betts, J., Gullone, E., & Allen, J. S. (2009). An examination of emotion regulation, temperament, and parenting style as potential predictors of adolescent depression risk status: A correlational study. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 473-485. doi:10.1348/026151008X314900
6. Calkins, S. D., & Hill, A. (2007). Caregiving influences on emerging emotion regulation: Biological and environmental transactions in early development. In J. J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (pp. 229-248). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
7. Carthy, T., Horesh, N., Apter, A., & Gross, J. J. (2010). Patterns of emotional reactivity and regulation in children with anxiety disorders.Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 32, 23-36. doi:10.1007/s10862-009-9167-8
8. Cole, P. M., Michel, M. K., & Teti, L. O. (1994). The development of emotion regulation and dysregulation: A clinical perspective. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 59(2-3), 73-100. doi:10.2307/1166139
9. Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R. (1980). Influence of extraversion and neuroticism on subjective well-being: Happy and unhappy people. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 38, 668-678. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.38.4.668
10. Dennis, T. A. (2007). Interactions between emotion regulation strategies and affective style: Implications for trait anxiety versus depressed mood. Motivation and Emotion, 31, 200-207. doi:10.1007/s11031-007-9069-6
11. Diener, E., Oishi, S., & Lucas, R. E. (2003). Personality, culture, and subjective well-being: Emotional and cognitive evaluations of life. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 403-425. doi:10.1146/annurev .psych.54.101601.145056
12. Eisenberg, N., Champion, C., & Ma, Y. (2004). Emotion-related regulation: An emerging construct. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 50, 236-259. doi:10.1353/mpq.2004.0016
13. Gottman, J., & Mettetal, G. (1986). Speculations about social and affective development: Friendship and acquaintanceship through adolescence. In J. M. Gottman & J. G. Parker (Eds.), Conversations with friends: Speculations on affective development (pp. 192-237). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
14. Gratz, K. L., & Roemer, L. (2004). Multidimensional assessment of emotion regulation and dysregulation: Development, factor structure, and initial validation of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 26, 41-54. doi: 10.1023/B:JOBA.0000007455.08539.94
15. Gross, J. J. (1998). The emerging field of emotion regulation: An integrative review. Review of General Psychology, 2, 271-299. doi:10.1037/1089-2680.2.3.271
16. Gross, J. J., & John, O. P. (2003). Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: Implications for affect, relationships, and wellbeing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 348-362. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.85.2.348
17. Gross, J. J., & Levenson, R. W. (1997). Hiding feelings: The acute effects of inhibiting negative and positive emotion. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 95-103. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.106.1.95
18. Gross, J. J., & Munoz, R. F. (1995). Emotion regulation and mental health. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 2, 151-164. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2850.1995.tb00036.x
19. Gross, J. J., & Thompson, R. A. (2007). Emotion regulation: Conceptual foundations. In J. J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (pp. 3-24). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
20. Hofmann, S. G., Heering, S., Sawyer, A. T., & Asnaani, A. (2009). How to handle anxiety: The effects of reappraisal, acceptance, and suppression strategies on anxious arousal. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, 389-394. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2009.02.010
21. John, O. P., & Gross, J. J. (2004). Healthy and unhealthy emotion regulation: Personality processes, individual differences, and life span development. Journal of Personality, 72, 1301-1334. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.2004.00298.x
22. John, O. P., & Gross, J. J. (2007). Individual differences in emotion regulation. In J. J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (pp. 351-372). New York, NY: Guilford.
23. Kovacs, M. (1992). Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) manual. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Multi-Health Systems.
24. Lewis, A. R., Zinbarg, R. E., & Durbin, C. (2010). Advances, problems, and challenges in the study of emotion regulation: A commentary. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 32, 83-91. doi:10.1007/s10862-009-9170-0
25. MacDermott, S. T., Gullone, E., Allen, S. J., Tonge, B., & King, N. J.(2010). The Emotion Regulation Index for Children and Adolescents (ERICA): A psychometric investigation. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 32, 301-314. doi:10.1007/s10862-009-9154-0
26. Moore, S. A., Zoellner, L. A., & Mollenholt, N. (2008). Are expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal associated with stress-related symptoms? Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46, 993-1000. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2008.05.001
27. Morris, A. S., Silk, J. S., Steinberg, L., Myers, S. S., & Robinson, L. R. (2007). The role of the family context in the development of emotion regulation. Social Development, 16, 361-388. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00389.x
28. Muris, P., Meesters, C., & Diederen, R. (2005). Psychometric properties of the Big Five Questionnaire for Children (BFQ-C) in a Dutch sample of young adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 1757-1769.
29. Penza-Clyve, S., & Zeman, J. (2002). Initial validation of the Emotion Expression Scale for Children (EESC). Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 31, 540-547.
30. Rohrbeck, C. A., Azar, S. T., & Wagner, P. E. (1991). Child Self-Control Rating Scale: Validation of a child self-report measure. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 20, 179-183. doi:10.1207/s15374424jccp2002_9
31. Shields, A., & Cicchetti, D. (1997). Emotion regulation among school-age children: The development and validation of a new criterion Q-sort scale. Developmental Psychology, 33, 906-916. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.33.6.906
32. Silk, J. S., Steinberg, L., & Morris, A. S. (2003). Adolescents' emotion regulation in daily life: Links to depressive symptoms and problem behavior. Child Development, 74, 1869-1880. doi:10.1046/j.1467-8624.2003.00643.x
33. Sitarenios, G., & Stein, S. (2004). Use of the Children's Depression Inventory. In M. E. Maruish (Ed.), The use of psychological testing for treatment planning and outcomes assessment: Vol. 2. Instruments for children and adolescents (3rd ed., pp. 1-37). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
34. Soto, C. J., John, O. P., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (2008). The developmental psychometrics of Big Five self-reports: Acquiescence, factor structure, coherence, and differentiation from ages 10 to 20. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 718-737. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.94.4.718
35. Southam-Gerow, M. A., & Kendall, P. C. (2002). Emotion regulation and understanding: Implications for child psychopathology and therapy. Clinical Psychology Review, 22, 189-222. doi:10.1016/S0272-7358(01)00087-3
36. Srivastava, S., Tamir, M., McGonigal, K. M., John, O. P., & Gross, J. J. (2009). The social costs of emotional suppression: A prospective study of the transition to college. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 883-897. doi:10.1037/a0014755
37. Suveg, C., & Zeman, J. (2004). Emotion regulation in children with anxiety disorders. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 33, 750-759. doi:10.1207/s15374424jccp3304_10
38. Thompson, R. A. (1994). Emotion regulation: A theme in search of definition. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 59, 25-52, 250-283. doi:10.2307/1166137
39. Twenge, J. M., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2002). Age, gender, race, socioeconomic status, and birth cohort difference on the Children's Depression Inventory: A meta-analysis. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111, 578-588. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.111.4.578
40. Walden, T. A., Harris, V. S., & Catron, T. F. (2003). How I Feel: A self-report measure of emotional arousal and regulation for children. Psychological Assessment, 15, 399-412. doi:10.1037/1040-3590.15.3.399
41. Watson, D., & Clark, L. A. (1992). On traits and temperament: General and specific factors of emotional experience and their relation to the five-factor model. Journal of Personality, 60, 441-476. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1992.tb00980.x
42. Weinberg, A., & Klonsky, E. (2009). Measurement of emotion dysregulation in adolescents. Psychological Assessment, 21, 616-621. doi: 10.1037/a0016669
43. Werner, K., & Gross, J. J. (2009). Emotion regulation and psychopathology. In A. M. Kring & D. M. Sloan (Eds.), Emotion regulation and psychopathology: A transdiagnostic approach to etiology and treatment (pp. 13-37). New York, NY: Guilford.