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Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Childhood
Published on: February 11, 2017
Development and Validation of the Parents' Gendered Emotion Beliefs Scale
Kristel Thomassin1, Jessica A Seddon1, Rachel Vaughn-Coaxum2
1Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.
Objectives:
The aim of the current research was to develop and validate a parent, self-report questionnaire to measure parents' gendered beliefs about emotion.
Methods:
Scale items were first developed based on a previous qualitative study examining emotions, parenting, and gender in a sample of parents. The Parents' Gendered Emotion Beliefs scale (PGEB) was validated in a sample of 704 parents of middle childhood youth.
Results:
Item-response theory analyses indicated a three-factor solution with factors measuring beliefs consistent with: gendered emotion expression, gender-neutral emotion expression, and gendered emotion socialization. All factors showed good internal consistency with alphas ranging from 0.79 to 0.90. Analyses then examined convergent validity by correlating PGEB factors to established measures of broad emotion beliefs, emotion socialization, family expressiveness, and child emotion regulation and psychopathology.
Conclusions:
Overall, findings support the PGEB, its factor structure and psychometric properties, and its potential to contribute to our understanding of the role of gender in emotion socialization and children's emotional development.
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