Negative life events, cognitive emotion regulation and emotional problems

A new questionnaire, named the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, has been constructed, measuring nine cognitive coping strategies people ten d to use after having experienced negative life events. A test-retest desig n was used to study the psychometric properties and relationships with meas ures of depression and anxiety among 547 high school youngsters. Principal component analyses supported the allocation of items to subscales, while al phas of most subscales exceeded 0.80. Cognitive coping strategies were foun d to play an important role in the relationship between the experience of n egative life events and the reporting of symptoms of depression and anxiety . The results suggest that cognitive coping strategies may be a valuable co ntext of prevention and intervention (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rig hts reserved.