Developing a Culturally-Sensitive Attributional Measure

说明(由申请人提供)：卫生局局长关于精神健康的报告的补编，题为“精神健康：文化、种族和民族”(美国公共卫生服务，2001年)，强调有必要开发、调整和评估评估和干预技术，使其最大限度地敏感和回应特定少数文化群体的需求。针对这一需求，费城儿童医院社区学校计划(CHOP)建议为市中心的非裔美国女孩开发一种社会信息处理措施，该措施以科学为基础，基于伙伴关系研究的原则，并受到视频技术的进步的影响。这项名为视频社交信息处理评估(ASIP-V)的新措施将借鉴重新制定的社交信息处理(SIP)理论，该理论假设，儿童在环境中处理一系列社交线索的能力将决定他/她是否做出攻击性反应。在NIMH(K23奖)的资助下，首席调查员发展了为城市少数民族女孩设计社会认知措施的专门知识。拟议的R21扩展了这一基于伙伴关系的测量发展研究，将经验支持的文献与内容领域专家和社区顾问的咨询相结合，并与三年级和四年级女孩、操场主管和教师的焦点小组相结合，设计了8个视频片段来评估市中心非裔美国女孩的SIP。随后，将对来自不同学校的40名3年级和4年级女孩进行公开试点研究，以获得最后确定这项措施所需的信息。然后，在第二年，190名非裔美国人市中心女孩将参加一项效度研究，以确定ASIP-V的因素结构是否符合重新制定的SIP理论(Crick&Dodge，1994)中概述的理论因素结构，以及该措施是否对市中心的非洲裔美国女孩具有很强的生态效度和可接受性。相关性：这项研究将开发和验证一种与文化相关的测量方法，这在未来研究城市非裔美国女孩的社会信息处理过程中可能非常有用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The supplement to the Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health, entitled "Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity" (U.S. Public Health Service, 2001) emphasizes the need to develop, adapt, and evaluate assessment and intervention techniques so that they are maximally sensitive and responsive to the needs of particular minority cultural groups. In response to this need, The Community Schools Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) proposes to develop a social information processing measure for inner-city African American girls that is scientifically grounded, based in principles of partnership-based research, and informed by advances of video technologies. The new measure, The Assessment of Social Information Processing through Videos (ASIP-V), will draw upon the reformulated social information processing (SIP) theory, which posits that a child's ability to process a series of social cues within the environment will determine whether he/she responds aggressively. With funding from NIMH (K23 Award), the principal investigator has developed expertise in designing social cognitive measures for urban ethnic minority girls. The proposed R21 extends this partnership-based measurement development research, by combining empirically supported literature with consultation from content area experts and community consultants, and focus groups with 3rd and 4th grade girls, playground supervisors, and teachers to design 8 video vignettes to assess inner-city African American girls' SIP. Following this, an open pilot study with forty 3rd and 4th grade girls from a different school will be conducted in order to obtain information necessary to finalize the measure. Then in Year 2, 190 African American inner-city girls will participate in a validation study to determine whether the factor structure of the ASIP-V conforms to the theoretical factor structure outlined in the reformulated SIP theory (Crick & Dodge, 1994), and whether the measure has strong ecological validity and acceptability for inner-city African American girls. Relevance: This study will develop and validate a culturally-relevant.measure that could be extremely useful in future studies examining the social information processing among urban African American girls.