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Emotional Climate in Residential Care Scale for youth

(ECRC-Y)

Research Group
CBPI
Contacts Laura Filipa Seiça Matias Santos

TITLE OF THE PORTUGUESE VERSION

Emotional Climate in Residential Care Scale for youth (ECRC-Y)

ORIGINAL VERSION

Albuquerque, I. Cunha, M., Lima, M.P., Galhardo, A., Palmeira, L., Irons, C., Gilbert, P. & Matos, M. (2021).Escala de Avaliação do Clima Emocional em Sala de Aula (EACESA)

PORTUGUESE VERSION

Santos, L., Martins, J., Ribeiro da Silva, D., Matos, M., Pinheiro, M. R., & Rijo, D. (2023). Escala de Avaliação do Clima Emocional para Jovens em Acolhimento Residencial

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

ECRC-Y is a 14-item self-report scale assessing the emotional climate of the residential care home, over the past two weeks, as perceived by youths who live there. The ECRC-Y comprises three subscales, describing different emotions associated to the three affect’s regulation systems: threat, drive, and soothing systems. Items are answered according to a 5-point scale (0 = never, to 4 = always). The ECRC-Y showed adequate Cronbach alphas (0.71 for threat, 0.89 for drive and 0.82 for soothing), and proved to be sex invariant.

REFERENCES

  • Santos, L., Martins, J., Ribeiro da Silva, D., Matos, M., Pinheiro, M. R., & Rijo, D. (2023). Emotional climate in residential care scale for youth: Psychometric properties and measurement invariance. Children and Youth Services Review, 148, 106912.

  • Albuquerque, I. Cunha, M., Lima, M.P., Galhardo, A., Palmeira, L., Irons, C., Gilbert, P. & Matos, M. (2021). How do I feel in my classroom? Validation of the Classroom Emotional Climate Scale (CECS) in a Portuguese adolescents sample using a model of three emotion regulation systems. Manuscript submitted for publication.

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