Development of a social emotional information processing assessment for adults (SEIP‐Q)

Abstract

An expanded self-report, vignette-based, questionnaire was developed to assess five components in a social emotional information processing model (SEIP: attribution, emotional response, response valuation, outcome expectancy, response efficacy, and response enactment), first in a population-based sample (n ¼ 250) and, second in healthy control participants (n ¼ 50) and in those with DSM-5 Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED: n ¼ 50). SEIP-Q vignettes depict, separately, both overtly aggressive and relationally aggressive as well as socially ambivalent scenarios. This expanded SEIP-Q assessment demonstrated good internal reliability, as well as convergent and discriminant validity, for all five SEIP components. IED participants differed from healthy controls in all SEIP-Q components. This expanded SEIP-Q assessment is thus proposed as a reliable and valid method for studying the various stages of SEIP in adult human subjects. Aggr. Behav. 43:47-59, 2017.

Social emotional information processing in adults: Development and psychometrics of a computerized video assessment in healthy controls and aggressive individuals

“…Next, our group expanded their assessment to include response evaluation and decision variables. This work also found good to excellent psychometric properties as well as data to support the overall reliability and validity of what is now referred to as the SEIP-Q (Social-Emotional Information Processing Questionnaire; SEIP-Q; Coccaro et al, 2016). The SEIP-Q assesses all of the social information processing stages proposed by Crick and Dodge (1996) with the exception of the encoding of relevant social cues.…”

Social cognition in Intermittent Explosive Disorder and aggression

“…This sample does not overlap with participants previously reported in our prior publications (Coccaro et al, 2009b, 2016). All study participants were systematically evaluated for impulsive aggressive and other personality-related behaviors.…”

“…For ease of interpretation, individual SEIP-Q scores represent each variable as an averaged score on the same 0–3 scale. We have previously reported on the psychometrics of the attributional and emotional SEIP variables (Coccaro et al, 2009b) and of the response evaluation and decision making SEIP variables (Coccaro et al, 2016) with internal consistency and test-retest reliability in the good-to-excellent range.…”

“…Both HA and emotion reactions to social threat are closely related components of SIP (Crick and Dodge, 1994; Guerra and Huesmann, 2004; Lemerise and Arsenio, 2000). Specifically, the presence of HA typically leads to a negative emotional response, suggesting that negative emotional response may mediate the relationship between HA and aggression (Coccaro et al, 2009b, 2016). Not surprisingly, negative emotions are positively associated with both aggressive behaviors (e.g., Arsenio et al, 2000; Cornell et al, 1999; Deater-Deckard et al, 2010; Eisenberg et al, 2009) and HA (Lemerise and Maulden, 2010) and are likely to be important in influencing response and outcome evaluation (Harper et al, 2010).…”

“…Over the past decade, the authors developed a social and emotional information processing questionnaire (SEIP-Q) assessment in which both psychometric properties as well as patient-control differences in adult healthy volunteer and impulsive aggressive individuals were evaluated (Coccaro et al, 2016). The present work reports on a large number of patient and control subjects and is the first study in adult psychiatric participants to examine several aspects of SEIP simultaneously, including cognitive and emotional processing variables.…”