Parental Emotion Regulation Inventory (PERI-2) Test

Parents who want to understand their reactions when a child’s behavior becomes difficult can use this questionnaire to examine how emotions are managed. The Parental Emotion Regulation Inventory (PERI-2) Test focuses on changing interpretations, concealing feelings, yielding, and creating distance. As a parenting self-reflection test, it can support reflection on possible effects on communication, boundaries, and family life rather than measure those outcomes.

What This Assessment Explores

Tense parent-child moments involve upset, concealment, yielding, or stepping away. Viewed as emotion regulation strategies for parents, the questionnaire shows routes to relief without judging responses.

Its four displayed dimensions are:

• Suppression (1-7) reflects concealed emotion; Low suppression (1-2), Moderate suppression (3-5), and High suppression (6-7) show increasing levels at higher bands, possibly indicating difficulty with emotional openness.
• Cognitive Reappraisal (1-7) reflects reframing difficult situations; Low reappraisal (1-3), Moderate reappraisal (4-5), and High reappraisal (6-7) mark more developed reappraisal skills at higher bands.
• Capitulation (1-7) reflects giving in to difficult emotions; Low capitulation (1-2), Moderate capitulation (3-5), and High capitulation (6-7) may indicate reduced coping strategies at higher bands.
• Avoidance (1-7) reflects withdrawing or avoiding discussion; Low avoidance (1-2), Moderate avoidance (3-5), and High avoidance (6-7) may indicate greater emotional distance from emotional problems at higher bands.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Responses use a seven-point agreement format, from strong disagreement to strong agreement, with recognizable parenting situations. Answers are grouped into four dimensions rather than one undifferentiated emotional-control score. The questionnaire provides four descriptive result bands, but it does not specify how individual responses become scale scores or establish that published PERI-2 psychometric findings apply to this online version.

Its closest evidence base is the 2017 revised Parental Emotion Regulation Inventory, or PERI-2, associated with Lorber and colleagues. The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that work, not automatically identical to its published items, validation sample, or scoring procedure. Lorber’s 2012 study connects maternal emotion regulation with overreactive and lax discipline, while Gross and John’s 2003 work distinguishes reappraisal from suppression. In this parent emotion regulation assessment, those ideas organize self-observation rather than establish clinical status.

Across the items, parents consider changing interpretations of a child’s behavior, hiding upset, giving in, and stepping away. Because this is self-report, current stress, memory, self-awareness, or the wish to appear favorable can affect the profile. Interpret it alongside real-life observations and family context.