Measuring anger regulation in middle childhood through behavioural observation: a longitudinal validation
- 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.
Author details: | Fabian KirschORCiDGND, Helena L. RohlfGND, Barbara KrahéORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2015.1101375 |
ISSN: | 1740-5629 |
ISSN: | 1740-5610 |
Title of parent work (English): | European journal of developmental psychology |
Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2015 |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Tag: | Anger regulation; childhood; longitudinal study; observation; validation |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 6 |
Number of pages: | 10 |
First page: | 718 |
Last Page: | 727 |
Funding institution: | German Research Foundation as part of the Graduate College "Intrapersonal developmental risk factors in childhood and adolescence: A longitudinal perspective" [GRK 1668] |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |