Assessing Emotion Regulation Strategies in Chile: A Spanish Language Adaptation of the German SSKJ 3-8 Scales

Abstract

The aim of the present study is the psychometric review of a Spanish language version of the German Stress and Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (SSKJ 3-8). The SSKJ 3-8 assesses emotion regulation strategies by asking children to indicate how often they use five different emotion regulation strategies in response to a social and an academic stress situation. The Spanish language adaptation of the inventory was developed for a cross-cultural study with Chilean and German fourth-graders. The sample includes 76 German and 169 Chilean fourth graders. The SSKJ 3-8 was first translated into Spanish by a bilingual translator, then back-translated by a German native speaker, and finally adapted for the cultural context in Chile. To analyze the psychometric comparability, the measurement invariance was examined within the framework of the Item Response Theory (IRT) with the R package pairwise. The results show that the new developed Spanish language adaptation of the SSKJ 3-8 is comparable to the German version in terms of psychometric measurement characteristics. Only few items show deviations with regard to strong measurement invariance. We conclude that the Spanish language adaptation of the SSKJ 3-8 is a reliable instrument to assess emotion regulation strategies in Chile.

Sleep quality and neurohormonal and psychophysiological accompanying factors in adolescents with depressive disorders: study protocol

“…The second part includes five-and three-point Likert scales evaluating the usage frequency of five different coping strategies. 51 The German version of the SSKJ 3-8 R showed sufficient reliability and validity has been confirmed. 52,53 Pubertal development is assessed with the use of the German adaption 54 of the Pubertal Development Scale (PDS) 55 as a selfreport questionnaire (T1, see Fig.…”

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“…31 Because of these previous findings, we added the SSKJ 3-8 R questionnaire to our assessment, which examines vulnerability to daily hassles and the use of various coping mechanisms. 51 In the context of stress, salivary alpha-amylase has been shown to have a sensitive response to acute stress situations, 22 with a potentially higher specificity for depressive disorders. 23 Considering that the onset of depressive symptoms is often linked to a major or minor stressful event, 31 the examination of pathophysiological aspects of these stress-related biomarkers in adolescents with depressive disorders is essential.…”

Comparison of Emotional Behaviour of Spanish, Chilean and England Adolescents, and Their Relationship with Effective Personality

“…Fortunately, in recent years, the importance of studying emotional behaviour in adolescents has been reflected in the increase in research on emotional behaviour in general, both nationally and internationally [10][11][12][13]. Research in Spain has mostly focused on violent, aggressive, and risky behaviour in schools and its influence on the quality of the teaching-learning process [14,15], on the link that these behaviours have with possible lesions in the prefrontal cortex [16], or on the influence that the use of new technologies has on these behaviours [17].…”

Stress-symptoms and well-being in children and adolescents: factor structure, measurement invariance, and validity of English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian language versions of the SSKJ scales

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