Initial psychometric studies of the Emotional Self-Regulation Scale: Adult and child-youth versions

• Main Authors: Ana Paula Porto NORONHA, Makilim Nunes BAPTISTA, Helder Henrique Viana BATISTA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas
• Series: Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
• Subjects: Emotional states; Psychometrics; Psychological evaluation; Stress; Subjective well-being
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-166X2019000100608&lng=en&tlng=en

Abstract Emotional self-regulation is the ability to moderate attention and behaviors from different circumstances and events, and is associated to the healthy human adaptation. The present study sought for validity evidences based on the internalstructure of the Adult and the Child-Youth Emotional Self-Regulation Scale and their reliability indices. The adult version was answered by 802 adults and the child-youth one was answered by 600 children and adolescents. The four-factorsolution was the most adequate in both versions. The externalization of aggression (adult version) and experience evaluation (children’s version) factors, and three other factors (appropriate coping strategies, pessimism and paralysis) were foundwith similar nomenclatures in the two scales. The reliability indices ranged between 0.69 and 0.98 (adult version) and 0.91 and 0.95 (child-youth version). In both versions, the factorial loads were higher than 0.50, explaining 62.7% (adultversion) and 64.2% (child version) of the total variance. The results are discussed in the light of the existing literature.