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Development of the Anger Children’s Cognitive Error Scale and the Anger Children’s Automatic Thought Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2022

Kohei Kishida Open the ORCID record for Kohei Kishida [Opens in a new window] ,
Masaya Takebe ,
Chisato Kuribayashi ,
Yuichi Tanabe  and
Shin-ichi Ishikawa
Kohei Kishida*
Affiliation:
Organization for Research Initiatives and Development, Doshisha University, 1-3, Tatara Miyakodani, Kyotanabe-shi, Kyoto, Japan Faculty of Psychology, Doshisha University, 1-3, Tatara Miyakodani, Kyotanabe-shi, Kyoto, Japan
Masaya Takebe
Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychology, Rissho University, 4-2-16, Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Chisato Kuribayashi
Affiliation:
Tokyo Women’s College of Physical Education, 4-30-1, Fujimidai, Kunitachi-city, Tokyo, Japan
Yuichi Tanabe
Affiliation:
School Counselor, Nara Prefectural Board of Education, 22-1, Hatanosyo, Tawaramoto-cho shiki-gun, Nara, Japan
Shin-ichi Ishikawa
Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychology, Doshisha University, 1-3, Tatara Miyakodani, Kyotanabe-shi, Kyoto, Japan
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Background:

Empirical studies between anger and anger-provoking cognitive variables in children and adolescents are lacking, despite numerous studies on internalising and externalising problems.

Aim:

The purpose of this study was to develop new questionnaires for anger-provoking cognitive errors and automatic thoughts, and examine relationships between anger, cognitive errors, and automatic thoughts in children and adolescents.

Method:

Participants were 485 Japanese children and adolescents aged 9–15 years old (254 females; average age 12.07; SD = 1.81). They completed the Anger Children’s Cognitive Error Scale (A-CCES) and the Anger Children’s Automatic Thought Scale (A-CATS), which were developed in this study, as well as the Anger Scale for Children and Adolescents and the Japanese version of Short Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale.

Results:

Both the A-CCES and the A-CATS had adequate reliability (internal consistency) and validity (face validity, structural validity and construct validity). A hierarchal regression analysis indicated that automatic thoughts were positively and moderately related to anger (β = .37) after controlling for age, gender, anxiety symptoms, cognitive errors and interaction term. Moreover, a mediation analysis indicated that automatic thoughts significantly mediated the relationship between cognitive errors and anger (indirect effect, 0.24; 95% CI: .020 to .036).

Conclusions:

This study developed the new questionnaires to assess anger-provoking cognitive errors and automatic thoughts. In addition, this study revealed that automatic thoughts rather than cognitive errors are associated with anger in children and adolescents.

Keywords

angerautomatic thoughtschildren and adolescentscognitive errors
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 50 , Issue 5 , September 2022 , pp. 481 - 492
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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