The Brief Child and Family Phone Interview (BCFPI) [53 (link)] is a structured interview administered by telephone or in person to parents to assess emotional and behavioral problems exhibited by 3- to 18-year-olds referred to child mental health services. The revised Ontario Child Health Study scales (OCHS-R) [54 (link)] provided the item pool for the BCFPI measures. Each item is scored on a 3-point Likert scale from 0 = “never true” to 2 = “often true”. The BCFPI yields six subscales of emotional and behavioral problems linked to the DSM categories of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), conduct disorder (CD), seasonal affective disorder (SAD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and major depressive disorder (MDD). The sum of the ADHD, ODD, and CD subscales yields a scale of Externalizing Problems (EXT), and the total score of SAD, GAD, and MDD subscales yields a scale of Internalizing Problems (INT). The scales show good internal consistency: α = 0.85 for EXT, and α = 0.85 for INT. Higher scores on each of the two scales reflect greater behavioral problems.
The Affect Regulation Checklist (ARC) [55 ] is a 12-item, self-report measure for parents or other caregivers to report on their affect regulation and their child’s affect regulation, as well as a youth self-report version. The ARC comes in different versions to be used depending on the informant and the target; for this study, we used the ARC-R (Relation), which explores the parent–adolescent dyadic affective regulation relationship. Items are rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 = “a lot like me” to 5 = “not like me”. The measure yields three scales of Affect Dysregulation (e.g., “I find it very difficult to calm down when I am angry about my child and our relationship”), Affect Suppression (e.g., “I try hard not to think about how I feel about my child and our relationship”), and Adaptive Reflection (e.g., “Thinking about why I feel different emotions for my child helps me learn more about our relationship”). The scales show good internal consistency, ranging from α = 0.72 for Affect Suppression, to α = 0.88 for Affect Dysregulation. Higher scores on each of the scales reflect greater use of the affect regulation strategy.
The Affect Regulation Checklist (ARC) [55 ] is a 12-item, self-report measure for parents or other caregivers to report on their affect regulation and their child’s affect regulation, as well as a youth self-report version. The ARC comes in different versions to be used depending on the informant and the target; for this study, we used the ARC-R (Relation), which explores the parent–adolescent dyadic affective regulation relationship. Items are rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 = “a lot like me” to 5 = “not like me”. The measure yields three scales of Affect Dysregulation (e.g., “I find it very difficult to calm down when I am angry about my child and our relationship”), Affect Suppression (e.g., “I try hard not to think about how I feel about my child and our relationship”), and Adaptive Reflection (e.g., “Thinking about why I feel different emotions for my child helps me learn more about our relationship”). The scales show good internal consistency, ranging from α = 0.72 for Affect Suppression, to α = 0.88 for Affect Dysregulation. Higher scores on each of the scales reflect greater use of the affect regulation strategy.
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