Modification of hostile interpretation bias and self-reported aggression in juvenile delinquents: A randomized controlled trial

Ren, Zhihong; Zhao, Ziyi; Yu, Nancy Xiaonan; Zhang, Lin; Li, Xu

doi:10.1016/j.ijchp.2021.100226

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“…As hypothesized, interpretation bias was positively correlated to CP and PPs. Those findings are in line with previous studies that indicated a hostile interpretation bias in children with conduct disorder [32-34]. Unexpectedly, the pro-social response access scale of GOSSIP did not show a significant correlation with the pro-social subscale of the SDQ.…”

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The Development and Validation of the First German Open Scale of Social Information Processing

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Introduction: This study introduces the first German Open Scale of Social Information Processing (GOSSIP) and evaluates its psychometric properties. Even though social information processing (SIP) and its important role in developmental psychopathology is a rising field of interest, model-based standardized assessment tools are still scarce. Methods: GOSSIP was developed to assess SI processes in boys and girls aged eight to 21 years. First, 61 vignettes (combinations of pictures and short written descriptions of the situation depicted) were evaluated by an expert group and piloted with 48 healthy participants (aged 8–21). The best-rated vignettes were then implemented in a Web-based application. 191 participants completed GOSSIP. Of those, 76 answered additional questionnaires to assess their social skills and psychopathology. Internal consistencies for the emotional and cognitive GOSSIP scales were determined. Latent profile analysis (LPA) was used to identify subgroups of children and adolescents characterized by specific SIP profiles (i.e., patterns of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to the GOSSIP). Furthermore, the external validity of the participants’ attribution tendencies in GOSSIP was evaluated in real life by smartphone-based Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA). Results: The internal consistencies for the emotional and cognitive scales (angry, ashamed, physical aggression, pro-social response, revenge, and outcome expectancy) were good to excellent. The scales of hostile interpretation, relation aggression, sadness, and exclusion showed borderline/acceptable internal consistency. Correlation analysis confirmed convergent validity with self-reported social skills and external validity with ratings of aggressive and pro-social behaviors. The LPA revealed three profiles as the best fit of the data. The first group is named “aggressors,” the second “social-emotional group,” and a third named “ashamed-internalizing group.” However, no significant association was found between the attribution tendencies derived from GOSSIP and EMA data. Discussion/Conclusion: GOSSIP is the first model-based German Web-based assessment for several SIP mechanisms that showed overall adequate psychometric properties. GOSSIP can be used to classify individuals into SIP profiles that differ in terms of their cognitive and emotional response tendencies and therefore could contribute to the development of targeted interventions. Integrating assessments of emotional responses into GOSSIP revealed an important role of “shame” in SIP and the development of psychopathology. Furthermore, the lack of external validity between GOSSIP and EMA calls into question how attribution tendencies are best assessed in future studies.

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“…In addition, a study showed that the effect of training on physical aggression was only significant in juvenile delinquents with a higher hostile interpretation bias at baseline. 51 Therefore, psychological characteristics at baseline may also be a critical factor. Future studies are required to explore the mechanism of emotional recognition training on aggression to find an effective behavioural intervention.…”

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Emotional Recognition Training Enhances Attention to Emotional Stimuli Among Male Juvenile Delinquents

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Li²,

Kou³

2023

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Objective Juvenile delinquents have deficits in emotional recognition that might play a critical role in the development of aggression. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of emotional recognition training and its consequences on emotional attention and aggression. Methods Seventy-three male juvenile delinquents were randomly assigned to two groups. One group was the modification group, which received eight days of training on an emotional recognition task. The purpose of the training was to modify interpretative biases in emotion recognition to encourage the perception of happiness over anger in ambiguous expressions. The other group was the waitlist group, which did not perform a task and continued with their usual programme. Before and after the training, participants completed the aggression questionnaire (AQ) and two behavioural tasks, including the emotional recognition task and a visual search task with happy and angry faces as targets. Results The modification group recognized more faces as happy after emotional recognition training than the waitlist group. Furthermore, the hostility in the modification group decreased significantly. Importantly, emotional recognition training further affected attention to emotional faces as participants responded faster in searching for happy and angry faces after training. Conclusion Emotional recognition training could modify juvenile delinquents’ emotional recognition, enhance their visual attention to emotional faces and reduce hostility.

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“…In the face of the fact of illegal and criminal behavior, a harmful behavior is likely to be interpreted as the conduct of the perpetrator, that is, to make a negative moral judgment on the perpetrator (Doolan and Bryant, 2021). For most people, when they hear the facts of a crime, they have less chance and possibility to understand the whole process of the incident in detail, so it is easy to fall into the moral judgment of the perpetrator, believing that their moral level is low (Ren et al, 2021). The result is an inappropriate construction of the moral status of both parties under biased perceptions.…”

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Analysis of personal psychological motivation and social psychological motivation of Retaliatory Justice under moral public opinion: Chinese cases

2022

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From a social psychology perspective, this study explored the personal and social psychological motivation of Retaliatory Justice. This study constructed a four-dimensional model of the psychological motivation of Retaliatory Justice from the two dimensions of “Self vs. Society” and “Identity vs. Resource.” They were Identity-Based Self-Oriented Motivation (Pacifying Outrage), Resource-Based Self-Oriented Motivation (Occupying Resource), Identity-Based Society-Oriented Motivation (Value Confirmation), and Resource-Based Society-Oriented Motivation (Deterrence and Control). In this study, 497 sets of valid data were extracted from 6 universities in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China, using 3 sets of situational experiments and the “Questionnaire Star” online survey platform as a vehicle to explore the personal motivations and psychosocial motivations of Retaliatory Justice. The empirical results showed that the situational experiment significantly verified the existence of Pacifying Outrage and Value Confirmation, and partially verified the existence of Deterrence and Control and Occupying Resource. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that only the effect of Pacifying Outrage on Retaliatory Justice showed a main effect, and the interaction between Pacifying Outrage and Deterrence and Control was not significant. Pacifying Outrage significantly affects Retaliatory Justice, while Occupying Resource significantly affects Retaliatory Justice, but the interaction between the two was not significant. Value Confirmation significantly affects Retaliatory Justice. Value Confirmation and Deterrence and Control synergistically affect Retaliatory Justice, but Deterrence and Control had no significant effect on Retaliatory Justice. Taking emotions as clues, this paper discussed the realistic value of the rheological paths of the psychological motivation of Retaliatory Justice, which brought enlightenment to the improvement of social morality, the cultivation of judicial trust, and the construction of psychological service system.

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Modification of hostile interpretation bias and self-reported aggression in juvenile delinquents: A randomized controlled trial

Cited by 19 publications

References 45 publications

The Development and Validation of the First German Open Scale of Social Information Processing

The Development and Validation of the First German Open Scale of Social Information Processing

Emotional Recognition Training Enhances Attention to Emotional Stimuli Among Male Juvenile Delinquents

Analysis of personal psychological motivation and social psychological motivation of Retaliatory Justice under moral public opinion: Chinese cases

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