Chinese Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Child Version of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150206
• Publication Date: 2016-02-29T18:27:46Z
• Authors: Wen Liu; Liang Chen; Philip R. Blue
• Keywords: Male; Factors Affecting Student Engagement in Education; Psychometrics; Developmental psychology; Science; Emotions; Clinical psychology; Social Sciences; Education; Cognition; Surveys and Questionnaires; Cognitive psychology; Health Sciences; Humans; Psychology; Impact of Maternal Mental Health on Offspring; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences; Child; Language; Psychiatry; Social and Emotional Learning; Adaptation (eye); Self-Regulation; 4. Education; Q; 05 social sciences; R; Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Reproducibility of Results; FOS: Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Emotion Regulation; Medicine; Female; Research Article; Neuroscience

This study aimed to validate a Chinese's adaption of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for children (CERQ-Ck). self-report instrument evaluates nine cognitive emotion regulation strategies that can be used by after experiencing negative life event. The CERQ-Ck was evaluated in sample 1403 elementary students between ages 9 and 11 using cluster sampling. All item-correlation coefficients were above 0.30. internal consistencies factors suggested moderate reliability (0.66 0.73). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) indicated current version had same structure as original (Tucker–Lewis index = 0.912, comparative fit 0.922, root mean square error approximation 0.032, standardized residual 0.044). A second-order third-order also found. Test–retest correlations (0.53 0.70, ps < 0.01) over period 1 month, which ranged from acceptable moderately strong obtained random stratified subsample (N 76). In addition, we analyzed convergent validity relation Chinese Children's Depression Inventory model dimensions with 1083 students. Multiple-group CFA confirmed measurement invariance both male female groups (ΔCFI 0.01, ΔRMSEA 0.015). Overall, results indicate has similar psychometric properties well adequate investigate during late childhood developmental periods.