Assessment

Social information processing skills

  • AUDIENCE: Elementary, middle, and high school students

  • METHOD: Web-based, audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (Audio-CASI)

  • LENGTH: 30 minutes

  • DESCRIPTION: 8 vignettes filmed from the perspective of the victim of social provocations Designed to assess 16 social cognitions (can be customized)

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Social Information Processing App (SIP-App)

Assess the social information processing skills deficits of children and adolescents including encoding, hostile attributional biases, social goals, emotions, behavioral responses, outcome values, outcome expectancies, & prosocial cognitions using a psychometrically strong, multimedia, web-based questionnaire.

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RELATED PRESENTATIONS

Kupersmidt, J. B., Stelter, R. L., & Parker, A. E. (2016, October). SIP-AP: Web-based assessment of social information processing skills in children and adolescents. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Special Topics Meeting: Technology and Media in Children’s Development, Irvine, CA. 

Kupersmidt, J. B., Stelter, R. L., & Parker, A. E. (2016, March). Social information processing, aggression, and executive functioning in adolescent boys. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD. 

Kupersmidt, J. B., and Parker, A. E. (2012, February). Social information processing assessment with aggressive children and adolescents. Mini-skills workshop presented at the National Association of School Psychologists, Philadelphia, PA.

Stelter, R., Kupersmidt, J. B., & Dodge, K. A. (2011, March). Development of the SIP-AP:  A web-based measure of social information processing patterns in elementary school-aged boys. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, CA.

Kupersmidt, J. B., Stelter, R. S., Parker, A. E., Parker, K. M., & Dodge, K. A. (2009, March). Elementary school age boys’ social information processing cognitions in ambiguous situations. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Kupersmidt, J. B., Shahinfar, A., & Lochman, J. (1999, August). Social information processing among reactive and proactive incarcerated adolescents. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

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