%0 Journal Article
%T Factorial Structure of the German Version of the Emotion Expression Scale for Children in Early Adolescents
%A Dennis Nitkowski
%A Franz Petermann
%A Janice L. Zeman
%A Julia Fern
%A Ulrike Petermann
%J Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment
%@ 1557-5144
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0734282918773478
%X In Germany, there are no self-report questionnaires assessing emotion awareness in youth under the age of 16 years or simultaneously with emotion suppression. The ¡°Emotion Expression Scale for Children¡± (EESC) measuring lack of emotion awareness and reluctance to express emotions in 10- to 15-year-olds can fill this gap. Goal of this study was to evaluate the factorial structure of the German version of the 16-item EESC in a test and a validation sample of overall 588 adolescents (314 boys; Mage = 11.6 years; SD = .74). The original structure comprised of the factors ¡°Poor Awareness¡± and ¡°Expressive Reluctance¡± could not be confirmed in the test sample using confirmatory factor analysis. An exploratory factor analysis yield a one-factor structure. Modification process led to an adjusted one-factor model with 13 items, which fitted the data best in the validation sample. The factor was named ¡°Low Emotion Awareness/Suppression.¡± Results indicated that the EESC structure is not measurement invariant. Reasons for missing fit of the two-factor model are discussed
%K emotion awareness
%K suppression
%K EESC
%K adolescents
%K German
%K factorial validity
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0734282918773478