TY - JOUR
T1 - Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Improve Children's Social Information-Processing Skills
AU - Peng, Jin
AU - Li, Jiyue
AU - Li, Danyi
AU - Fang, Yihua
AU - Zhang, Chi
AU - Fraser, Mark W.
AU - Guo, Shenyang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2024/7
Y1 - 2024/7
N2 - Purpose: We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of intervention research studies focused on strengthening the social information-processing (SIP) skills of children. Methods: A systematic search and review process was employed to identify, screen, and summarize research on SIP-guided interventions. Results: The search recovered 183,184 citations published from 1997 to 2022. After screening, 42 articles were retained for a full-text review. Findings from the 15 studies using more rigorous designs [i.e., 8 individual-level randomized control trials (RCTs), 5 cluster-level RCTs, and 2 quasi-experimental studies with statistical controls for selectivity] suggest that SIP-focused interventions produced statistically significant treatment effects on cognitive skills, with mean effect sizes of 0.35 on encoding, 0.13 on hostile attribution bias, 0.13 on goal formulation, 0.16 on response decision, and—more behaviorally—0.37 on aggressive and disruptive comportment. Conclusions: SIP-focused interventions are effective. If widely implemented, they hold the potential to reduce aggressive behavior in childhood.
AB - Purpose: We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of intervention research studies focused on strengthening the social information-processing (SIP) skills of children. Methods: A systematic search and review process was employed to identify, screen, and summarize research on SIP-guided interventions. Results: The search recovered 183,184 citations published from 1997 to 2022. After screening, 42 articles were retained for a full-text review. Findings from the 15 studies using more rigorous designs [i.e., 8 individual-level randomized control trials (RCTs), 5 cluster-level RCTs, and 2 quasi-experimental studies with statistical controls for selectivity] suggest that SIP-focused interventions produced statistically significant treatment effects on cognitive skills, with mean effect sizes of 0.35 on encoding, 0.13 on hostile attribution bias, 0.13 on goal formulation, 0.16 on response decision, and—more behaviorally—0.37 on aggressive and disruptive comportment. Conclusions: SIP-focused interventions are effective. If widely implemented, they hold the potential to reduce aggressive behavior in childhood.
KW - aggression
KW - childhood
KW - children
KW - emotional regulation
KW - intervention research
KW - social information-processing
KW - social skills training
KW - social–emotional learning
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85163344970
U2 - 10.1177/10497315231182449
DO - 10.1177/10497315231182449
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85163344970
SN - 1049-7315
VL - 34
SP - 507
EP - 534
JO - Research on Social Work Practice
JF - Research on Social Work Practice
IS - 5
ER -