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种基于网络的音频计算机辅助自访谈（audio-CASI）软件应用程序，用于评估青春期男孩的社会信息处理（SIP）技能。过去 20 年的研究已经建立了青少年 SIP 技能缺陷与攻击行为、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计划都是基于 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，但目前尚不存在具有强大心理测量特性的 SIP 技能测量方法，可用于临床环境或研究中的标准管理。因此，心理健康和药物滥用专业人士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。当前的提案旨在通过创建具有集成数字化音频和视频剪辑的专业品质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中常见误解的小插曲脚本；拍摄六个场景，涉及适合发展的常见社会情境，涉及意图不明确的犯罪者表现出的攻击性行为；设计评估问题以可靠、有效地评估每个社会信息处理机制；为 SIP 机制创建评分算法；开发一个有吸引力的、用户友好的、适合发展和文化的基于网络的应用程序，专为音频 CASI 管理而设计，其中包含视频片段、评估项目和评分算法，以评估青春期男孩的 SIP 技能。产品测试的目的包括对 50 名青少年试用视频剪辑和音频 CASI 应用程序，以确定其适当性、清晰度、兴趣和有效性，并检查该措施的心理测量特性，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至关重要的作用，而这反过来又会影响药物滥用和犯罪行为的发展。创建和评估用于青春期男孩的基于网络的软件应用程序的心理测量特性将有助于检测 SIP 模型中描述的社会认知缺陷。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存在问题，并利用这些知识制定适当的技术，用于对高危男孩进行干预。