Validation of the Portuguese emotion awareness questionnaire for children and adolescents |
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| Authors: | Guida Veiga Paul Oosterveld Jorge Fernandes Carolien Rieffe |
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| Institution: | 1. Departamento de Desporto e Saúde, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de évora, évora, Portugal;2. Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development (CIDESD), Portugal;3. Developmental Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands;4. Dutch Foundation for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;5. School of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK |
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| Abstract: | This study examined the construct and concurrent validity of the Portuguese version of the Emotion Awareness Questionnaire (EAQ) in 302 children and adolescents (mean age 13 years old). The EAQ is a self-report questionnaire that allows for analysis of how youth experience and understand their own and others’ emotions. Participants completed the EAQ along with questionnaires for Worry and Somatic Complaints. Results confirmed the expected six-factor structure, good psychometric properties, and good concurrent validity. The EAQ is a reliable questionnaire, suitable for examining emotion awareness in Portugal. |
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| Keywords: | Emotion awareness worry rumination somatic complaints validation adolescents |
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