Emotion Diary Application

9-14 years children

Emotion Diary Administration Protocol The emotion diary to be administered to children in the experimental group will be a structured material developed by the researchers. The emotion diary will be administered to children aged 9-14 who are hospitalized in the pediatric intensive care unit, are conscious, able to communicate, and meet the inclusion criteria for the study, for a period of 5 days, for approximately 30 minutes each day. All sessions will be conducted by the researchers; the journal will be completed by the child themselves. The emotion journal is structured to help children become aware of the experiences they go through during their time in intensive care, the emotions they feel, and how these emotions manifest in their bodies and behaviors, and to assist them in developing appropriate coping strategies. The journal will include sections appropriate for the children's age level, such as selecting emotions, naming emotions, written expression, short-answer questions, dr

9-14 years children

The State Anxiety Scale for Children was developed by Spielberger et al. in 1970.

This scale was developed to assess children's momentary emotional states. Its validity in Turkish was established by Öner and Le Compte in 1985. It was translated into Turkish by Özusta (1995).

The response fields can be extended as needed. The scale consists of 20 items and is designed to assess emotions related to state anxiety. The highest possible score on the scale is 80, and the lowest is 20. A high score indicates a high level of anxiety. The scale's Cronbach's alpha coefficient is 0.89 (Spielberger and Edwards, 1973); in the Turkish version, it is 0.82 (Özusta, 1995).

The scale was developed by Greco et al. (2011), and a study on its validity and reliability in Turkish was conducted by Bilaç et al. (2024). Used to measure mindfulness in children and adolescents aged nine and older, the scale consists of 10 items and is a five-point Likert-type self-report scale (4: always, 3: often, 2: sometimes, 1: rarely, 0: never). The items on the scale are first reverse-coded by changing 0 to 4, 1 to 3, 3 to 1, and 4 to 0 (leaving 2 unchanged), and the total score is calculated by summing all items. Higher scores are considered to indicate a higher level of mindfulness (Bilaç et al., 2024). The scale does not include subscales or cutoff scores. In the original study of the scale, the total Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.80 (Greco et al., 2011); in the Turkish adaptation study (Bilaç et al., 2024), it was found to be 0.76.

Developed by Gullone and Taffe (2012) as an adaptation for children and adolescents of the Emotional Regulation Scale developed by Gross and John (2003). The Turkish adaptation of the scale was conducted by Tetik and Önder (2021). There are no reverse-scored items on the scale.

Items 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 10 represent the reappraisal subscale; items 2, 4, 6, and 9 represent the suppression subscale. High scores on the subscales indicate that the emotion regulation strategy represented by that subscale is frequently used (Tetik and Önder, 2021). In the original version of the scale (Gullone and Taffe, 2012), the Cronbach's alpha internal consistency coefficient ranged from 0.82 to 0.86 for the reappraisal subscale and from 0.69 to 0.79 for the suppression subscale. In the Turkish adaptation study, the Cronbach's alpha internal consistency coefficient was found to be 0.79 for the reappraisal subscale and 0.53 for the suppress