Development and validation of a Parental Strategies for Extrinsic Regulation of Children’s Emotion Scale

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 regulate two their children’s negative emotions: fear/anxiety anger. Following previous five subscales emotion regulation strategies (situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, reappraisal, suppression) each (fear/anxiety anger). Half the participants were asked to report extent which they used extrinsic with fearful anxious children, other half angry children. The results confirmatory factor analysis resulted in five-factor model as hypothesized, showed moderate internal consistency. There was also significant positive correlation between situational modification/reappraisal adaptation. inter-subscale correlations associations concepts generally indicating that has sufficient reliability validity.