PARENTAL BELIEFS ABOUT THEIR CHILDREN’S EXPRESSION OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS: REEXAMINING THE FACTORIAL STRUCTURE OF TWO MEASURES AND THEIR DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY

The Display of Negative Emotions scale and Social Consequences Of are two understudied questionnaires that assess parents’ emotion beliefs about their children’s expression negative emotions. Therefore, the aims this study were to ascertain factorial structure both questionnaires, reexamine internal consistency each instrument’s scales, age- gender-related discriminant validity measures. administered by a web-based survey sample 253 Portuguese mothers with children elementary school age (6–12 years). A two-factor solution (expression submissive emotions, dominant emotions) was preferred for first questionnaire, single-factor emerged second questionnaire. Both measures revealed good consistency, but while former able identify gender differences, latter discriminated between groups. simultaneous use these is recommended an informative assessment