Computerized Assessment of Emotion Recognition Skills

情绪识别技能的计算机化评估

• 批准号: 7480715
• 负责人: Alison Elaine Parker
• 金额: $ 12.23万
• 依托单位: INNOVATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-10 至 2010-04-09
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7480715
• 关键词: 5 year old; Accountability; Adolescence; Adolescent; Age; Age-Years; Algorithms; Anger; Applications Grants; Arts; Behavior; Behavioral; Child; Child Development; Childhood; Code; Cognitive; Competence; Computer Assisted; Computer software; Computers; Data; Development; Drug usage; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Effectiveness; Emotional; Emotions; Ensure; Ethnic Origin; Evaluation; Face; Facial Expression; Family; Future; Gender; Goals; Head Start Program; Health Professional; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge; Language; Learning; Left; Life; Mathematics; Measures; Mental Health; Methodology; Muscle; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Nursery Schools; Online Systems; Only Child; Other Finding; Outcome; Outcome Measure; Pattern; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Play; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Pregnancy; Preschool Child; Preventive Intervention; Property; Psychometrics; Public Health; Purpose; Race; Range; Readiness; Reporting; Request for Applications; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Role; Schools; Score; Screening procedure; Self-Administered; Shapes; Social Behavior; Social Development; Standards of Weights and Measures; System; Teenagers; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Truancy; Validity and Reliability; Withdrawal; Work; Youth; base; cognitive function; computer program; computerized; design; digital; elementary school; gang; improved; instrument; interest; intervention program; literacy; peer; programs; prototype; sex; showing emotion; skills; skills training; social; social skills; success; teacher; tool; treatment program; usability; user-friendly; violence prevention

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this grant proposal is to develop a web-based, audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI) software package for assessing emotion recognition skills in young children. A consistent relationship between emotional knowledge and social competence in children has been well-established. Early preventive interventions are needed to successfully alter maladaptive emotion knowledge skills. In fact, several evidence-based violence prevention and social skills intervention programs include training on emotional recognition skills. Despite these advances in the study of emotion recognition skills, there currently exists no standardized, normed measure of these skills with known psychometric properties for young children. Thus, mental health professionals and researchers do not have access to state-of-the-art measures to assess the effectiveness of their interventions or to establish intervention goals related to social cognitive functioning. The current proposal is designed to begin to fill these gaps by creating professional quality software and photographs to assess children's ability to accurately identify basic emotions in facial expressions. Phase I includes two basic sets of aims regarding product development and product feasibility testing. The product development aims include creating digital photographs of facial emotion expressions of happy, sad, angry, scared, surprise, disgust, and ambiguous with young children who vary by sex and race; designing assessment questions to reliably and validly assess emotion recognition skills; creating scoring algorithms for the measure; and developing attractive, user-friendly, developmentally and culturally appropriate web-based software that incorporates digital photographs, assessment items, and scoring algorithms. The product testing aims include piloting the web-based measure to determine feasibility, appropriateness, clarity, interest, and effectiveness; and to conduct quantitative analyses to begin to examine the initial psychometric properties of the measure. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE Emotional knowledge plays a critical role in a child's development and should continue to be a standard part of pre-school, elementary, and middle school education. The creation and norming of an emotion recognition measure that can easily and quickly be administered and scored using a self-administered and web-based computer program will contribute to allowing for more universal and standardized screening of children's emotional knowledge. The proposed tool will allow teachers, clinicians, and other professionals to measure the effects of curricula, preventive interventions, and treatment programs as well as provide a normed measure for use in assessing a child's emotional knowledge and understanding.

描述（由申请人提供）：本赠款提案的目的是开发基于网络的音频计算机辅助自我浏览（Audio-Casi）软件包，以评估幼儿的情感识别能力。情绪知识与儿童社会能力之间的一致关系已经建立了良好的建立。需要早期的预防干预措施，以成功改变适应不良的情绪知识能力。实际上，一些基于证据的暴力预防和社交技能干预计划包括有关情感识别技能的培训。尽管在研究情绪识别技能方面取得了这些进步，但目前尚无对这些技能的标准化，规范的衡量标准，具有针对幼儿的已知心理测量特性。因此，精神卫生专业人员和研究人员无法获得最先进的措施来评估其干预措施的有效性或建立与社会认知功能有关的干预目标。当前的建议旨在通过创建专业质量的软件和照片来评估儿童准确识别面部表情中基本情绪的能力来开始填补这些空白。第一阶段包括有关产品开发和产品可行性测试的两组基本目标。产品开发的目的包括创建与随着性和种族不同的幼儿的快乐，悲伤，愤怒，恐惧，惊喜，厌恶，厌恶和模棱两可的数字照片；设计评估问题以可靠，有效评估情绪识别能力；为该度量创建评分算法；并开发有吸引力的，用户友好，发展和文化适合基于网络的软件，该软件结合了数字照片，评估项目和评分算法。产品测试的目的包括试用基于Web的措施来确定可行性，适当性，清晰度，利益和有效性；并进行定量分析以开始检查该度量的初始心理测量特性。公共卫生相关性情感知识在儿童的成长中起着至关重要的作用，应该继续成为学前教育，小学和中学教育的标准组成部分。情绪识别度量的创建和规范可以轻松，快速地使用自我管理和基于网络的计算机程序进行管理和评分，这将有助于对儿童情感知识进行更多的通用和标准化的筛查。该提议的工具将允许教师，临床医生和其他专业人员衡量课程，预防性干预措施和治疗计划的影响，并为评估孩子的情感知识和理解提供一种规范的措施。