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

基于网络的青春期男孩社会信息处理技能评估

• 批准号: 7671017
• 负责人: JANIS B KUPERSMIDT
• 金额: $ 16.8万
• 依托单位: INNOVATION RESEARCH AND TRAINING, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-15 至 2012-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7671017
• 关键词: Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent Development; Aggressive behavior; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Algorithms; Applications Grants; Area; Arts; Behavior; Behavioral; Clinical; Clinical Research; Clip; Cognition; Cognitive; Cognitive deficits; Computer Assisted; Computer software; Computers; Conflict (Psychology); Data; Data Collection; Decision Making; Development; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Ensure; Epidemiology; Evaluation; Exhibits; Eye; Face; Film; Future; Goals; Grant; Individual; Institutes; Internet; Intervention; Interview; Juvenile Delinquency; Knowledge; Lead; Life; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Male Adolescents; Measurement; Measures; Mental Health; Methodology; Modeling; Multimedia; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Online Systems; Paper; Patient Care; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Phase; Play; Population; Prevention; Prevention Research; Prevention Services Research; Prevention program; Preventive Intervention; Price; Problem behavior; Process; Process Assessment; Process Measure; Professional counselor; Property; Psychometrics; Publishing; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resistance; Risk; Role; Sampling; School-Age Population; Shapes; Site; Substance abuse problem; Surveys; Techniques; Technology; Testing; Time; United States National Institutes of Health; Validity and Reliability; Work; Writing; Youth; anti social; base; behavioral/social science; boys; clinical practice; cognitive behavior therapy; cognitive function; design; deviant; elementary school; evidence base; experience; high risk; improved; information processing; instrument; interest; intervention program; perpetrators; practice-based research network; prevent; product development; public health relevance; school violence; skills; social; social cognition; social science research; substance abuse prevention; substance use prevention; success; technology development; theories; tool; treatment program; usability; user-friendly

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：本拨款提案的目的是开发一个音频计算机辅助自我采访（音频CASI）基于网络的软件应用程序，用于评估青少年男孩的社会信息处理（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，犯罪和药物滥用之间的一致关系。此外，大多数基于证据的攻击和药物滥用的预防和治疗方案是基于SIP模型（克里克和道奇，1994年），并利用认知行为干预技术。尽管在社会认知的研究取得了进展，目前还没有SIP技能的措施与强大的心理测量特性，用于临床环境或标准管理的研究。因此，精神卫生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或建立与社会认知功能有关的治疗目标。目前的建议旨在开始填补这些空白，创造一个专业质量，多媒体应用程序与综合数字化音频和视频剪辑。第一阶段包括关于产品开发和测试的两套基本目标。产品开发的目标包括：创建青春期男孩之间常见误解的小插曲脚本;拍摄六个场景，涉及发育适当的、常见的社会情境，涉及意图模糊的犯罪者所表现出的攻击性行为;设计评估问题，以可靠有效地评估每种社会信息处理机制;创建SIP机制的评分算法;并开发一个有吸引力的，用户友好的，发展和文化上适当的基于Web的应用程序设计的音频CASI管理，结合视频小插曲，评估项目，并评分算法，以评估SIP技能的青春期男孩。产品测试的目的包括试点的视频剪辑和音频CASI的应用程序与50名青年，以确定其适当性，清晰度，兴趣和有效性，以及检查的心理测量特性的措施，以确定其可行性与青春期男孩使用。公共卫生关系：社会信息处理技能在青少年的发展和攻击行为模式中起着至关重要的作用，而攻击行为模式反过来又影响着物质滥用和犯罪行为的发展。创建和评估的心理测量特性的一个基于网络的软件应用程序与青春期的男孩将有助于检测社会认知缺陷划定的SIP模型。拟议的工具将允许临床医生，咨询师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是有问题的，并利用这些知识来定制适当的技术，用于干预有风险的男孩。