To study the negative emotion regulation of sea-going seafarers, establish a regulation strategy questionnaire of sea-going seafarers’ negative emotion and examine its reliability and validity.

Based on open-ended questionnaires and previous researches, the initial questionnaire was obtained. Randomly selected 188 sea-going seafarers, by adopting program analysis and factor analysis, the final questionnaire was determined. Tested 121 sea-going seafarers by using the final questionnaire, while 55 of them by using coping style questionnaire at the same time. After two weeks, 47 of them were tested by final questionnaire again. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire were investigated during the research, and the criterion validity between the coping style questionnaire and regulation strategy questionnaire of sea-going seafarers’ negative emotion was also studied.

The factor analysis results showed that the questionnaire was composed of seeking for support, abreaction, inobservance, transfer and oppression.Cronbach α of each factors was 0.857, 0.841, 0.825, 0.806, 0.754 respectively; and Cronbach α of the entire questionnaire was 0.873. The split-half correlation coefficients were 0.697, -0.839(P<0.01); test-retest reliability coefficients were 0.706, -0.822(P<0.01). The correlation between subscales were -0.031, -0.459; and the correlation between subscales and total scale were 0.590, -0.806(P<0.01). Criterion validity showed that despite for the abreaction, each factor was significantly correlated with the factors of coping style questionnaire.

The sea-going seafarers’ negative emotion regulation strategy questionnaire has acceptable psychometrics properties on reliability and validity.

Sea-going seafarer; Negative emotion; Regulation strategy