Pinkham Amy E, Penn David L, Green Michael F, Buck Benjamin, Healey Kristin, Harvey Philip D
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX;
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC;
Schizophr Bull. 2014 Jul;40(4):813-23. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbt081. Epub 2013 May 31.
In schizophrenia, social cognition is strongly linked to functional outcome and is increasingly seen as a viable treatment target. The goal of the Social Cognition Psychometric Evaluation (SCOPE) study is to identify and improve the best existing measures of social cognition so they can be suitably applied in large-scale treatment studies. Initial phases of this project sought to (1) develop consensus on critical domains of social cognition and (2) identify the best existing measures of social cognition for use in treatment studies.
Experts in social cognition were invited to nominate key domains of social cognition and the best measures of those domains. Nominations for measures were reduced according to set criteria, and all available psychometric information about these measures was summarized and provided to RAND panelists. Panelists rated the quality of each measure on multiple criteria, and diverging ratings were discussed at the in-person meeting to obtain consensus.
Expert surveys identified 4 core domains of social cognition-emotion processing, social perception, theory of mind/mental state attribution, and attributional style/bias. Using RAND panel consensus ratings, the following measures were selected for further evaluation: Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire, Bell Lysaker Emotion Recognition Task, Penn Emotion Recognition Test, Relationships Across Domains, Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test, The Awareness of Social Inferences Test, Hinting Task, and Trustworthiness Task.
While it was possible to establish consensus, only a limited amount of psychometric information is currently available for the candidate measures, which underscores the need for well-validated and standardized measures in this area.
在精神分裂症中，社会认知与功能结局密切相关，并且越来越被视为一个可行的治疗靶点。社会认知心理测量评估（SCOPE）研究的目标是识别并改进现有的最佳社会认知测量方法，以便它们能够适用于大规模治疗研究。该项目的初始阶段旨在：（1）就社会认知的关键领域达成共识；（2）识别用于治疗研究的现有的最佳社会认知测量方法。
邀请社会认知领域的专家提名社会认知的关键领域以及这些领域的最佳测量方法。根据既定标准减少对测量方法的提名，并汇总所有关于这些测量方法的可用心理测量信息并提供给兰德公司的小组成员。小组成员根据多个标准对每个测量方法的质量进行评分，并在面对面会议上讨论有分歧的评分以达成共识。
专家调查确定了社会认知的4个核心领域——情绪加工、社会感知、心理理论/心理状态归因以及归因风格/偏差。使用兰德公司小组的共识评分，选择了以下测量方法进行进一步评估：《模糊意图敌意问卷》《贝尔-莱萨克情绪识别任务》《宾夕法尼亚情绪识别测试》《跨领域关系》《眼睛解读心理测试》《社会推理意识测试》《暗示任务》和《可信度任务》。
虽然有可能达成共识，但目前候选测量方法的心理测量信息有限，这突出了该领域对经过充分验证和标准化的测量方法的需求。
