Computerized Assessment of Social Information Processing

描述（由申请人提供）：这项拨款建议的目的是开发一个音频计算机辅助自我采访（音频CASI）软件包，用于评估儿童的社会信息处理。过去20年的研究已经建立了社会信息处理（SIP）技能缺陷和青年攻击行为之间的一致关系。此外，目前大多数旨在预防或治疗儿童或青少年攻击性行为的循证方案都是基于SIP模型（Crick & Dodge，1994），并包括社会认知干预技术。尽管这些进展的研究侵略，目前还没有标准化的，规范的措施SIP技能与已知的心理测量特性。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相关的治疗目标。目前的提案旨在开始通过创建专业质量的软件和视频剪辑来填补这些空白，以评估儿童社会信息处理的多个阶段。第一阶段包括关于产品开发和产品测试的两套基本目标。产品开发的目标包括：为二至五年级的男孩创造常见误解的小插曲脚本;为二至五年级的男演员创造包含模糊意图的社会情境的专业质量的数字视频剪辑;设计评估问题，以可靠和有效地评估社会信息处理的多个方面;为音频计算机辅助自我访谈管理创建软件;为SIP措施创建评分算法;编写临床报告外壳，总结评估结果并提供对软件响应的临床意义;开发有吸引力、方便用户、适合发展和文化的计算机软件，其中包括视频短片、评估项目，评分算法和报告组件，以评估SIP在小学年龄的男孩。产品测试的目的包括与青年一起试用视频剪辑和音频CASI软件，以确定是否适当、清晰、有趣和有效;并对少量试点数据进行定量分析。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this grant proposal is to develop an audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI) software package for assessing the social information processing in children. Research over the past 20 years has established a consistent relationship between social information processing (SIP) skill deficits and aggressive behavior in youth. In addition, the majority of current evidence-based programs designed to prevent or treat aggressive behavior in children or adolescents are predicated on the SIP model (Crick & Dodge, 1994) and include social cognitive intervention techniques. Despite these advances in the study of aggression, there currently exist no standardized, normed measures of SIP skills with known psychometric properties. 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 treatment goals related to social cognitive functioning. The current proposal is designed to begin to fill these gaps by creating professional quality software and video clips to assess multiple stages of social information processing in children. Phase I includes two basic sets of aims regarding product development and then product testing. The product development aims include creating vignette scripts of common misunderstandings among 2nd-to 5th-grade boys; creating professional quality, digital video clips of social situations containing ambiguous intent with 2nd-5th grade male actors; designing assessment questions to reliably and validly assess multiple aspects of social information processing; creating software for audio computer-assisted self-interviewing administration; creating scoring algorithms for the SIP measures; writing clinical report shells that will summarize assessment findings and provide clinical implications for responses to the software; and developing attractive, user-friendly, developmentally and culturally appropriate computer software that incorporates video vignettes, assessment items, scoring algorithms and reporting components to assess SIP in elementary school-aged boys. The product testing aims include piloting video clips and audio-CASI software with youth to determine appropriateness, clarity, interest, and effectiveness; and to conduct quantitative analyses on a small sample of pilot data.