Validation of the FEEL-KJ: An Instrument to Measure Emotion Regulation Strategies
in Children and Adolescents
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Cracco E
; Van Durme K
; Braet C
PLoS One
2015[]; 10
(9
): e0137080
PMID26331845
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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.
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