Development and Validation of the Social Information Processing Application: A Web-Based Measure of Social Information Processing Patterns in Elementary School-Age Boys

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 834-847

  Kupersmidt, Janis B ^a   Stelter, Rebecca ^a   Dodge, Kenneth A ^b  

^a Innovation Research and Training   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Antisocial behavior; Social cognitive deficits; Social information processing; Web based assessment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; VALIDITY; VIGNETTE; WEB BROWSER;

AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOFTWARE; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 83155182774     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023621     Document Type: Article

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