TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kirsch, Fabian
A1  - Rohlf, Helena L.
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
T1  - Measuring anger regulation in middle childhood through behavioural observation: a longitudinal validation
JF  - European journal of developmental psychology
N2  - Learning to regulate anger is an important task in childhood development, as maladaptive anger regulation has been linked to a variety of problems, including aggression and social rejection. To assess anger regulation in situ, in a previous study we developed a behavioural observation measure and demonstrated its cross-sectional construct and criterion validity in a sample of 599 children with a mean age of 8.1years. The present study further validated the measure by demonstrating its predictive validity. About 10months after the behavioural observation, participants were asked to imagine two anger-eliciting situations and report what they would do to get rid of their anger. Observed anger regulation strategies at T1 correlated significantly with self-reported regulatory behaviour at T2, suggesting that the behavioural observation measure is an ecologically valid approach for assessing anger regulation in middle childhood.
KW  - Anger regulation
KW  - observation
KW  - childhood
KW  - validation
KW  - longitudinal study
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2015.1101375
SN  - 1740-5629
SN  - 1740-5610
VL  - 12
IS  - 6
SP  - 718
EP  - 727
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -