Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Annales Medico-Psychologiques, 2025 (SCI-Expanded)
Emotion regulation refers to the ability to control and direct one's emotions in the face of events, as demanded by specific settings and conditions. Since one's social and emotional difficulties are encapsulated in almost all contemporary diagnostic criteria, acquiring desirable emotion regulation skills is key to leading a healthy and happy life. Parents may need to be aware of their own emotion-regulation skills to lead their children to acquire positive emotion regulation skills. The present study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the “Regulating Emotions in Parenting Scale” (REPS) on Turkish parents. The REPS consists of 18 items within three components: adaptive strategies, suppression, and rumination. For validity concerns, we first pooled the items relying on the relevant theoretical frameworks. Next, we resorted to expert opinions and employed the Lawshe technique to explore the content validity of the scale. Then, we performed confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to investigate the construct validity of the scale. Finally, we calculated Cronbach's alpha coefficients to reveal the internal consistency of the five-factor model. We only recruited those having only a child aged 0–18 years, living with their child for at least one year, and without a child with special needs. We collected the data from a total of 718 Turkish parents (81.2% mothers, 18.8% fathers) online. The results revealed both Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's omega coefficients to be 0.85 for the adaptive strategies subscale. Respectively, they were 0.78–0.79 for the suppression subscale and 0.69–0.70 for the rumination subscale. Besides, the three-factor model showed an acceptable to moderate fit to the data. In addition, upper-lower group comparisons yielded significant differences between all the items (P < 0.05). Regarding criterion validity, we found significant correlations between the REPS subscales on the Parent-Child Communication Scale (PCCS) (P < 0.05). Overall, we concluded that the REPS is a valid and reliable measurement tool for emotion regulation among parents in the Turkish context. Parental behaviors and emotion regulation patterns may affect children who deem their parents as primary complements of their immediate environment. Therefore, the REPS may lead to future studies in assessing parents’ emotion regulation skills.