Chinese Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Child Version of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 2; p. e0150206
• Main Authors: Liu, Wen, Chen, Liang, Blue, Philip R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 29.02.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adaptation; Age; Analysis; Anxiety; Biology and Life Sciences; Child; Child development; Child mental health; Children; Children & youth; Cognition; Cognitive ability; Coping; Correlation; Correlation coefficient; Correlation coefficients; Emotions; Factor analysis; Female; Humans; Language; Laws, regulations and rules; Male; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mental depression; People and Places; Psychological aspects; Psychometrics - methods; Quantitative psychology; Questionnaires; Reliability analysis; Reliability aspects; Reproducibility of Results; Research and Analysis Methods; Social Sciences; Students; Studies; Surveys; Surveys and Questionnaires; University students; Validity; China
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150206

This study aimed to validate a Chinese's adaption of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for children (CERQ-Ck). This self-report instrument evaluates nine cognitive emotion regulation strategies that can be used by children after experiencing a negative life event. The CERQ-Ck was evaluated in a sample of 1403 elementary students between the ages of 9 and 11 by using cluster sampling. All the item-correlation coefficients for CERQ-Ck were above 0.30. The internal consistencies of the nine factors suggested moderate reliability (0.66 to 0.73). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) indicated that the current version had the same structure as the original instrument (Tucker-Lewis index = 0.912, comparative fit index = 0.922, root mean square error of approximation = 0.032, standardized root mean square residual = 0.044). A second-order factor and a third-order factor structure were also found. Test-retest correlations (0.53 to 0.70, ps < 0.01) over a period of 1 month, which ranged from acceptable to moderately strong were obtained from a random and stratified subsample of elementary students (N = 76). In addition, we analyzed convergent validity in relation to CERQ-Ck and the Chinese version of the Children's Depression Inventory model dimensions with a subsample of 1083 elementary students. Multiple-group CFA confirmed the measurement invariance for both the male and female groups (ΔCFI < 0.01, ΔRMSEA < 0.015). Overall, results indicate that CERQ-Ck has similar psychometric properties to the original instrument as well as with adequate reliability and validity to investigate the nine cognitive emotion regulation strategies during late childhood developmental periods.