Web-Based Assessment of Social Information Processing Skills in Adolescent Boys

描述(申请人提供)：这项资助提案的目的是开发一个音频计算机辅助自访(音频-CASI)基于网络的软件应用程序，用于评估青春期男孩的社交信息处理(SIP)技能。过去20年的研究已经建立了SIP技能缺陷与青少年攻击性行为、青少年犯罪和药物滥用之间的一致关系。此外，大多数针对攻击性和药物滥用的循证预防和治疗方案是基于SIP模型(Crick&Dodge，1994)，并利用认知-行为干预技术。尽管社会认知研究取得了进展，但目前还没有用于临床环境或研究标准管理的具有很强心理测量学特性的SIP技能的测量方法。因此，心理健康和药物滥用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，也无法确定与社会认知功能有关的治疗目标。目前的提议旨在通过创建具有集成的数字化音频和视频剪辑的专业质量的多媒体应用程序来开始填补这些空白。第一阶段包括关于产品开发和测试的两套基本目标。产品开发目标包括创建青春期男孩常见误解的小插曲剧本；拍摄六个场景，涉及与意图模糊的肇事者表现出的攻击性行为有关的发育适当的常见社交场景；设计评估问题以可靠和有效地评估每种社会信息处理机制；为SIP机制创建评分算法；以及开发一个吸引人的、用户友好的、适合发展和文化的基于网络的应用程序，该应用程序专为音频-CASI管理而设计，其中包括视频小插曲、评估项目和评分算法，以评估青少年男孩的SIP技能。产品测试的目标包括在50名青少年中试用视频剪辑和音频CASI应用程序，以确定它们的适当性、清晰度、趣味性和有效性，并检查该测量的心理测量学特性，以确定其用于青春期男孩的可行性。公共卫生相关性：社会信息处理(SIP)技能在青少年的发展和攻击性行为模式中发挥着关键作用，而攻击性行为模式反过来又影响药物滥用和犯罪行为的发展。为青春期男孩使用的基于网络的软件应用程序的心理测量学特性的创建和评估将有助于检测在SIP模型中描绘的社会认知缺陷。拟议的工具将允许临床医生、顾问和其他心理健康和药物滥用预防专业人员确定哪些社会认知技能有问题，并利用这些知识定制适当的技术，用于干预高危个体男孩。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this grant proposal is to develop an audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI) web-based software application for assessing social information processing (SIP) skills in adolescent boys. Research over the past 20 years has established a consistent relationship between SIP skills deficits and aggressive behavior, delinquency, and substance abuse in youth. In addition, the majority of evidence-based prevention and treatment programs for aggression and substance abuse are based upon the SIP model (Crick & Dodge, 1994) and utilize cognitive-behavioral intervention techniques. Despite advances in the study of social cognition, there currently exist no measures of SIP skills with strong psychometric properties for use in clinical settings or for standard administration in research. Thus, mental health and substance abuse 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 a professional quality, multimedia application with integrated digitized audio and videoclips. Phase I includes two basic sets of aims regarding product development and testing. The product development aim includes creating vignette scripts of common misunderstandings among adolescent boys; filming six scenes involving developmentally appropriate, common social situations concerning an aggressive behavior exhibited by a perpetrator whose intent is ambiguous; designing assessment questions to reliably and validly assess each social information processing mechanism; creating scoring algorithms for the SIP mechanisms; and developing an attractive, user-friendly, developmentally and culturally appropriate web-based application designed for audio-CASI administration that incorporates video vignettes, assessment items, and scoring algorithms to assess SIP skills in adolescent boys. The product testing aims include piloting the video clips and audio-CASI application with 50 youth to determine their appropriateness, clarity, interest, and effectiveness as well as to examine the psychometric properties of the measure to determine its feasibility for use with adolescent boys. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Social Information Processing (SIP) skills play a critical role in adolescents' development and aggressive behavior patterns which in turn, influence the development of substance abuse and delinquent behavior. The creation and evaluation of the psychometric properties of a web-based software application for use with adolescent boys will contribute to detecting social cognitive deficits delineated in the SIP model. The proposed tool will allow for clinicians, counselors, and other mental health and substance abuse prevention professionals to determine which social cognitive skills are problematic and use this knowledge to tailor appropriate techniques for use in interventions with individual at risk boys.