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
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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）：本拨款提案的目的是开发一个基于网络的音频计算机辅助自我访谈（音频CASI）软件包，用于评估幼儿的情感识别技能。儿童的情感知识和社交能力之间存在一致的关系已经得到证实。需要早期预防性干预来成功改变适应不良的情绪知识技能。事实上，一些循证暴力预防和社会技能干预方案包括情绪识别技能的培训。尽管在情绪识别技能的研究中取得了这些进展，但目前还没有标准化的、规范化的测量这些技能的方法，这些方法具有已知的幼儿心理测量学特性。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相关的干预目标。目前的提案旨在开始通过创建专业质量的软件和照片来填补这些空白，以评估儿童准确识别面部表情中基本情绪的能力。第一阶段包括关于产品开发和产品可行性测试的两套基本目标。产品开发的目标包括创建数字照片的面部表情的快乐，悲伤，愤怒，害怕，惊讶，厌恶，和模糊的幼儿谁不同的性别和种族;设计评估问题，以可靠和有效地评估情绪识别技能;创建评分算法的措施;开发有吸引力的、用户友好的、适合发展和文化的基于网络的软件，该软件包含数字照片、评估项目和评分算法。产品测试的目的包括试验基于网络的措施，以确定可行性，适当性，清晰度，兴趣和有效性;并进行定量分析，开始检查的措施的初始心理测量属性。情感知识在儿童的发展中起着至关重要的作用，应该继续成为学前、小学和中学教育的标准组成部分。创建和规范的情绪识别措施，可以很容易地和快速地管理，并使用自我管理和基于网络的计算机程序进行评分，将有助于允许更普遍和标准化的筛选儿童的情绪知识。拟议的工具将允许教师，临床医生和其他专业人员来衡量课程，预防干预措施和治疗方案的效果，以及提供一个规范的措施，用于评估儿童的情感知识和理解。