Computerized Assessment of Social Information Processing

描述（由申请人提供）：这个拟议的第二阶段项目的目的是开发和规范音频计算机辅助自我采访（音频CASI）软件包，用于评估社会信息处理技能（SIPS）在3日至5日年级的男孩。过去25年的研究已经在SIPS和青少年的攻击性和犯罪行为之间建立了一致的关系。此外，目前大多数旨在预防或治疗儿童和青少年破坏性行为障碍、攻击性行为或犯罪的循证方案都是基于SIPS模型（Crick & Dodge，1994），并利用社会认知干预技术。尽管在研究和治疗青少年的攻击性和暴力行为方面取得了许多进展，但目前还没有标准化的、规范化的具有已知心理测量特性的SIPS测量方法。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。第一阶段包括成功开发了一个带有三个视频小插曲的软件原型，并对三至五年级的白色和黑人男孩使用该软件进行了可行性研究。第一阶段的初步结果表明，目标儿童群体的接受程度很高。目前第二阶段申请的目标包括完成评估措施和对SIPS评估进行独立评估，以建立发展规范。具体而言，将完成关于3至5年级白色，黑人和西班牙裔男孩之间的常见误解的小插曲脚本，其中一个男孩的负面结果和另一个男孩的模糊意图;将拍摄专业质量的社交情况数字视频剪辑;软件程序将在添加临床报告组件后完成，包括总结评估结果并提供以下临床意义的外壳对软件的回应。标准化样本将包括农村、城市和郊区按年级和种族分层的同等数量的青年。数据的规范，可靠性，同时标准的有效性，和消费者满意度的措施将被收集和分析。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this proposed Phase II project is to develop and norm an audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (audio-CASI) software package for assessing social information processing skills (SIPS) in 3rd to 5th grade boys. Research over the past 25 years has established a consistent relationship between SIPS and aggressive and delinquent behavior in youth. In addition, the majority of current evidence-based programs designed to prevent or treat disruptive behavior disorders, aggressive behavior, or delinquency in children and adolescents are predicated on the SIPS model (Crick & Dodge, 1994) and utilize social cognitive intervention techniques. Despite these many advances in the study and treatment of aggressive and violent behavior in youth, there currently exist no standardized, normed measures of SIPS 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. Phase I included the successful development of a prototype of the software with three video vignettes and a feasibility study of its use with 3rd through 5th grade white and black boys. Preliminary Phase I results show high acceptability among the target group of children. The aims of the current Phase II application include the completion of the assessment measure and an independent evaluation of the SIPS assessment to establish developmental norms. Specifically, vignette scripts will be completed regarding common misunderstandings among 3rd through 5th grade White, Black, and Hispanic boys, where there is a negative outcome for one boy and ambiguous intent on the part of another; professional quality, digital video clips of the social situations will be filmed; and the software program will be completed with the addition of a clinical report component including shells that will summarize the assessment findings and provide clinical implications for responses to the software. The standardization sample will include equal numbers of youth stratified by grade and race in rural, urban and suburban settings. Data on the norms, reliability, concurrent criterion validity, and consumer satisfaction of the measure will be collected and analyzed.