子どもの感情に対する親の対他感情制御方略尺度の作成および信頼性・妥当性の検討

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In this study, we surveyed 1,200 parents who had children aged 3－7 years, and developed a Parental Strategies for Extrinsic Regulation of Children’s Emotions Scale. This scale measures how parents regulate two of their children’s negative emotions: fear/anxiety and anger. Following a previous study, we developed five subscales of emotion regulation strategies (situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, reappraisal, and suppression) for each emotion scale (fear/anxiety and anger). Half of the participants were asked to report the extent to which they used each of the extrinsic emotion regulation strategies with fearful and anxious children, and the other half with angry children. The results of confirmatory factor analysis resulted in a five-factor model as hypothesized, and the scale showed moderate internal consistency. There was also a significant positive correlation between situational modification/reappraisal and children’s adaptation. The inter-subscale correlations and associations with other concepts were generally as hypothesized, indicating that this scale has sufficient reliability and validity.