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Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Childhood
Published on: February 11, 2017
Emotion regulation related to children's future externalizing and internalizing behaviors
1College of Nursing, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Problem:
Emotion regulation in children is a construct with important theoretical and clinical implications for healthcare providers, yet currently there is not a reliable and valid instrument that can be easily administered to young children.
Methods:
The study was based on interviews with 126 children ages 5.5-12 years from a longitudinal study conducted over 4 years. Reliability, internal construct, and discriminant and predictive validity were examined.
Findings:
The study was able to distinguish between two types of emotions, sadness and anger, and provided evidence that outcomes may be different for each of these emotion dysregulations.
Conclusions:
This study provides empirical evidence that an interview with children as young as 5.5 years can provide researchers with a reliable and valid measure of emotion regulation.
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