Cracco Emiel, Van Durme Kim, Braet Caroline
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
PLoS One. 2015 Sep 2;10(9):e0137080. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137080. eCollection 2015.
Although the field of emotion regulation in children and adolescents is growing, there is need for age-adjusted measures that assess a large variety of strategies. An interesting instrument in this respect is the FEEL-KJ because it measures 7 adaptive and 5 maladaptive emotion regulation strategies in response to three different emotions. However, the FEEL-KJ has not yet been validated extensively. Therefore, the current study aims to test the internal structure and validity of the FEEL-KJ in a large sample of Dutch-speaking Belgian children and adolescents (N = 1102, 8-18 years old). The investigation of the internal structure confirms earlier reports of a two-factor structure with Adaptive and Maladaptive Emotion Regulation as overarching categories. However, it also suggests that the two-factor model is more complex than what was previously assumed. The evaluation of the FEEL-KJ validity furthermore provides evidence for its construct and external validity. In sum, the current study confirms that the FEEL-KJ is a valuable and reliable measure of emotion regulation strategies in children and adolescents.
尽管儿童和青少年情绪调节领域正在不断发展，但仍需要适合不同年龄段的测量工具来评估多种策略。在这方面，一个有趣的工具是FEEL-KJ，因为它可以测量针对三种不同情绪的7种适应性和5种非适应性情绪调节策略。然而，FEEL-KJ尚未得到广泛验证。因此，本研究旨在对大量讲荷兰语的比利时儿童和青少年（N = 1102，8至18岁）样本测试FEEL-KJ的内部结构和有效性。对内部结构的调查证实了先前关于以适应性和非适应性情绪调节为总体类别的两因素结构的报告。然而，这也表明两因素模型比之前假设的更为复杂。对FEEL-KJ有效性的评估进一步为其结构效度和外部效度提供了证据。总之，本研究证实FEEL-KJ是一种评估儿童和青少年情绪调节策略的有价值且可靠的测量工具。
