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Research paper thumbnail of European Journal of Developmental Psychology Volume 8, 2011, List of Reviewers

European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of The Editors express appreciation to the following individuals, who reviewed articles for Volume 28 (2004). Gary Adams Austin Albino

Motivation and Emotion, Dec 1, 2004

Motivation and Emotion, Vol. 28, No. 4, December 2004 ( C o 2004) DOI: 10.1007/s11031-004-2390-4 ... more Motivation and Emotion, Vol. 28, No. 4, December 2004 ( C o 2004) DOI: 10.1007/s11031-004-2390-4 ... The Editors express appreciation to the following individuals, who reviewed articles for Volume 28 (2004). ... Gary Adams Austin Albino Lauren Alloy Bill Arsenio Greg Ashby Avi Assor Jim Averill Alvaro Barriga Kenn Barron Larry Barsalou Bruce Barthalow Roy Baumeister George Bear Lenonard Berkowitz James Bliss Margaret Bradley Nyla Branscombe Kirk Brown Charles Carver Daniel Cervone Jason Colquitt Regina ...

Research paper thumbnail of Preliminary evaluation of a social-cognitive model of adolescent problem behaviors /

Research paper thumbnail of How I think Questionnaire 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Relationships Between Problem Behaviors and Academic Achievement in Adolescents

Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2002

Numerous studies have documented relationships between a variety of problem behaviors and academi... more Numerous studies have documented relationships between a variety of problem behaviors and academic achievement measures. However, the results of these studies should be interpreted cautiously, given the considerable comorbidity of problem behaviors that often exists among school-age youth.This study addressed the relationships between 8 teacher-reported problem behavior syndromes (withdrawal, somatic complaints, anxiety/depression, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, delinquent behavior, aggressive behavior) and standardized measures of academic achievement (overall, reading, spelling, arithmetic, performance). The sample comprised 41 boys and 17 girls ages 11 to 19 years ( M = 15.02, SD = 1.90) enrolled in an alternative school. Although withdrawn, somatic complaints, delinquent behavior, and aggressive behavior syndromes exhibited significant zero-order correlations with the academic achievement measures, each of these relationships was mediated by attention pro...

Research paper thumbnail of Relations between self‐serving cognitive distortions and overt vs. covert antisocial behavior in adolescents

Aggressive Behavior, 1998

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Research paper thumbnail of Moral cognitive correlates of empathy in juvenile delinquents

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Measuring cognitive distortion in antisocial youth: Development and preliminary validation of the “how I think” questionnaire

Aggressive Behavior, 1996

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Research paper thumbnail of Developing the helping skills and prosocial motivation of aggressive adolescents in peer group programs

Aggress Violent Behavior, 1996

Peer-group and skills-training treatment approaches are integrated in EQUIP, an innovative group ... more Peer-group and skills-training treatment approaches are integrated in EQUIP, an innovative group program for aggressive and other antisocial adolescents. Peer group programs such as Positive Peer Culture generally have had only mixed success, perhaps because they do not sufficiently counteract the negative youth culture and the helping-skill limitations of antisocial youth. These helping-skiU limitations include: (a) delay or immaturity in moral judgment and egocentric bias, (b) social information-processing deficits and distortions, and (c) social skill deficiencies. Single-component skills-training interventions addressing one or another of these limitations have also had only mixed success. EQUIP introduces "equipment meetings" to remediate these limitations by incorporating into a peer-group treatment approach multicomponent skills training (cf. Aggression Replacement Training, cognitive therapy). Equipment meetings also promote the development of a positive youth culture and hence the prosocial motivation of group members. A recent favorable study encourages continued evaluation research for multicomponent group programs that are designed to motivate and equip aggressive youth to help one another.

Research paper thumbnail of Dialogue and Exchange of Information about Grade Inflation can Counteract its Effects

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Page 1. Vol. 55/No. 2 201 Vol. 56/No. 4 201 DIALOGUE AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ABOUT GRADE INFL... more Page 1. Vol. 55/No. 2 201 Vol. 56/No. 4 201 DIALOGUE AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ABOUT GRADE INFLATION CAN COUNTERACT ITS EFFECTS Alvaro Q. Barriga, Eric K. Cooper, Mary Ann Gawelek, Kristin Butela, and Elizabeth Johnson ...

Research paper thumbnail of Psychometric Validation of the How I Think About Drugs and Alcohol Questionnaire

Research paper thumbnail of Psychometrical properties of the "How I Think" Questionnaire (HIT-Q) in adolescents

Psicothema, 2013

The How I Think Questionnaire (HIT-Q) was developed to measure the main categories of self-servin... more The How I Think Questionnaire (HIT-Q) was developed to measure the main categories of self-serving cognitive distortions. The present study analyses the psychometric properties of the HIT-Q Spanish-Version. The sample consisted of 1.490 Spanish-speaking adolescents recruited from various schools in Madrid (Spain). The participants had a mean age of 15.37 years (SD = 1.67). Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) showed that the underlying structure of the HIT-Q was best explained by a six-factor solution (Self-Centred, Blaming Others, Minimizing/Mislabelling, Assuming the Worst, Anomalous Responses and Positive Fillers). After examination of its psychometric properties, it was concluded that the Spanish version of the HIT-Q is a reliable and valid measure of self-serving cognitive distortions in Spanish adolescents.

Research paper thumbnail of How I Think Questionnaire

Research paper thumbnail of How I Think about Drugs and Alcohol Questionnaire

Research paper thumbnail of Cognitive Distortion and Problem Behaviors in Adolescents

Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2000

The authors investigated the prevalence of self-serving and self-debasing cognitive distortions a... more The authors investigated the prevalence of self-serving and self-debasing cognitive distortions and their specific relations to externalizing and internalizing problem behaviors in 96 incarcerated male and female delinquents and a comparison sample of 66 high school students. The incarcerated participants evidenced higher levels of cognitive distortion (self-serving and self-debasing) and problem behavior (externalizing and internalizing) than did comparison participants. Both

Research paper thumbnail of It's All About Me: A Brief Report of Incarcerated Adolescent Sex Offenders' Generic and Sex-Specific Cognitive Distortions

Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 2008

This study investigated the scope of cognitive distortions and their relationship to empathy amon... more This study investigated the scope of cognitive distortions and their relationship to empathy among adolescent sex offenders. Self-report measures of sex-specific and generic self-serving cognitive distortions as well as empathy were administered to 175 male sex offenders aged 12 to 20 incarcerated at a juvenile correctional facility. Generic distortions (e.g., attribution of carelessness to theft victims) were elevated and correlated with sex-specific distortions (e.g., attribution of promiscuity to rape victims). Sex-specific and generic distortions were each inversely associated with unique variance in empathy. Relationships of the distortions to particular contexts of victimization and empathic distress (i.e., for their own sexual abuse victim, another offender's sexual abuse victim, or an accident victim) were also explored. Results suggested that adolescent sex offenders' self-serving cognitive distortions may pervasively neutralize concerns for victims and, therefore, that treatment programs should aim to remediate not only their sex-specific but also their generic self-serving cognitive distortions.

Research paper thumbnail of Effects of psychoeducation for offenders in a community correctional facility

Journal of Community Psychology, 2004

The present study provided a randomized outcome evaluation of the psychoeducational component of ... more The present study provided a randomized outcome evaluation of the psychoeducational component of the EQUIP program. The psychoeducational curriculum was implemented in a community correctional facility for adult felony offenders. The psychoeducational curriculum is designed to remedy offenders' delays in moral judgment maturity, social cognitive distortions, and social skill deficiencies. The participants were 316 felony offenders, 71% male, aged 18 to 61 years. Relative to a control group, participants who received portions of the curriculum reported fewer serious institutional violations. Female, but not male participants, who received the curriculum were less likely to recidivate than those in the control group at six months. Reductions in mediating factors-cognitive distortion for males and social skills for females-were associated with fewer serious institutional violations. Levels of substance abuse, exposure to violence, and number of serious violations were found to predict recidivism at six months.

Research paper thumbnail of Specificity of cognitive distortions to antisocial behaviours

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 2008

Cognitive distortions have long been posited to facilitate antisocial behaviours, but the specifi... more Cognitive distortions have long been posited to facilitate antisocial behaviours, but the specificity of such distortions has rarely been studied. To replicate findings of specificity between particular cognitions and externalizing or internalizing behaviours; to test for specificity of relationship between particular cognitions and different types of externalizing behaviours. The participants were 239 male youths aged 10 to 19 years (mean (M) = 14.22, standard deviation (SD) = 1.64) from schools on the island of Curaçao. Their cognitive distortions and problem behaviours were investigated through self-report. Results In controlled analyses, self-serving cognitive distortions were associated with externalizing behaviours whereas self-debasing cognitive distortions were associated with internalizing behaviours. Within the externalizing domain, self-serving distortions with overt behavioural referents were linked to aggressive behaviour while self-serving distortions with covert behavioural referents were linked to delinquent behaviour. Within the aggression domain, distortions with opposition-defiance referents related to verbal aggression whereas distortions with physical aggression referents related to physically aggressive behaviour. The degree of cognitive-behavioural specificity documented by this study was remarkable. The observed pattern suggests that cognitive interventions designed for externalizing versus internalizing behaviours should differ in therapeutic approach.

Research paper thumbnail of Dialogue and Exchange of Information about Grade Inflation can Counteract its Effects

College Teaching, 2008

Page 1. Vol. 55/No. 2 201 Vol. 56/No. 4 201 DIALOGUE AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ABOUT GRADE INFL... more Page 1. Vol. 55/No. 2 201 Vol. 56/No. 4 201 DIALOGUE AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ABOUT GRADE INFLATION CAN COUNTERACT ITS EFFECTS Alvaro Q. Barriga, Eric K. Cooper, Mary Ann Gawelek, Kristin Butela, and Elizabeth Johnson ...

Research paper thumbnail of Validation of the ‘How I Think Questionnaire’ in a Population of French-speaking Adolescents with Externalizing Behaviors

Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2012

&... more 'How I Think Questionnaire' (HIT) is used to measure self-serving cognitive distortions among delinquents. Previously validated on Americans, this instrument was translated, adapted and validated for French-speaking teens. To assess convergent and discriminant validity, 336 adolescents with externalizing behaviors in Québec (Canada) completed the HIT, the Self-Reported Delinquency Scale (SRD), and the Auto-aggression Questionnaire. There were 165 boys and 171 girls with M(age) = 16.4 years (SD = 0.5) who received services under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (n = 145) or the Youth Protection Act (n = 191). HIT and SRD total scores were correlated (0.51, p < 0.01). On the HIT, past suicidal attempting delinquents were not significantly different than non-suicide attempting delinquents; also delinquents living in closed detention facilities had more self-serving cognitive distortions than delinquents living in open facilities or under probation in the community. This French-language version of the HIT is a reliable and valid measure.

Research paper thumbnail of European Journal of Developmental Psychology Volume 8, 2011, List of Reviewers

European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of The Editors express appreciation to the following individuals, who reviewed articles for Volume 28 (2004). Gary Adams Austin Albino

Motivation and Emotion, Dec 1, 2004

Motivation and Emotion, Vol. 28, No. 4, December 2004 ( C o 2004) DOI: 10.1007/s11031-004-2390-4 ... more Motivation and Emotion, Vol. 28, No. 4, December 2004 ( C o 2004) DOI: 10.1007/s11031-004-2390-4 ... The Editors express appreciation to the following individuals, who reviewed articles for Volume 28 (2004). ... Gary Adams Austin Albino Lauren Alloy Bill Arsenio Greg Ashby Avi Assor Jim Averill Alvaro Barriga Kenn Barron Larry Barsalou Bruce Barthalow Roy Baumeister George Bear Lenonard Berkowitz James Bliss Margaret Bradley Nyla Branscombe Kirk Brown Charles Carver Daniel Cervone Jason Colquitt Regina ...

Research paper thumbnail of Preliminary evaluation of a social-cognitive model of adolescent problem behaviors /

Research paper thumbnail of How I think Questionnaire 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Relationships Between Problem Behaviors and Academic Achievement in Adolescents

Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2002

Numerous studies have documented relationships between a variety of problem behaviors and academi... more Numerous studies have documented relationships between a variety of problem behaviors and academic achievement measures. However, the results of these studies should be interpreted cautiously, given the considerable comorbidity of problem behaviors that often exists among school-age youth.This study addressed the relationships between 8 teacher-reported problem behavior syndromes (withdrawal, somatic complaints, anxiety/depression, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, delinquent behavior, aggressive behavior) and standardized measures of academic achievement (overall, reading, spelling, arithmetic, performance). The sample comprised 41 boys and 17 girls ages 11 to 19 years ( M = 15.02, SD = 1.90) enrolled in an alternative school. Although withdrawn, somatic complaints, delinquent behavior, and aggressive behavior syndromes exhibited significant zero-order correlations with the academic achievement measures, each of these relationships was mediated by attention pro...

Research paper thumbnail of Relations between self‐serving cognitive distortions and overt vs. covert antisocial behavior in adolescents

Aggressive Behavior, 1998

Skip to Main Content. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Moral cognitive correlates of empathy in juvenile delinquents

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Measuring cognitive distortion in antisocial youth: Development and preliminary validation of the “how I think” questionnaire

Aggressive Behavior, 1996

Skip to Main Content. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Developing the helping skills and prosocial motivation of aggressive adolescents in peer group programs

Aggress Violent Behavior, 1996

Peer-group and skills-training treatment approaches are integrated in EQUIP, an innovative group ... more Peer-group and skills-training treatment approaches are integrated in EQUIP, an innovative group program for aggressive and other antisocial adolescents. Peer group programs such as Positive Peer Culture generally have had only mixed success, perhaps because they do not sufficiently counteract the negative youth culture and the helping-skill limitations of antisocial youth. These helping-skiU limitations include: (a) delay or immaturity in moral judgment and egocentric bias, (b) social information-processing deficits and distortions, and (c) social skill deficiencies. Single-component skills-training interventions addressing one or another of these limitations have also had only mixed success. EQUIP introduces "equipment meetings" to remediate these limitations by incorporating into a peer-group treatment approach multicomponent skills training (cf. Aggression Replacement Training, cognitive therapy). Equipment meetings also promote the development of a positive youth culture and hence the prosocial motivation of group members. A recent favorable study encourages continued evaluation research for multicomponent group programs that are designed to motivate and equip aggressive youth to help one another.

Research paper thumbnail of Dialogue and Exchange of Information about Grade Inflation can Counteract its Effects

Http Dx Doi Org 10 3200 Ctch 56 4 201 209, Aug 7, 2010

Page 1. Vol. 55/No. 2 201 Vol. 56/No. 4 201 DIALOGUE AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ABOUT GRADE INFL... more Page 1. Vol. 55/No. 2 201 Vol. 56/No. 4 201 DIALOGUE AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ABOUT GRADE INFLATION CAN COUNTERACT ITS EFFECTS Alvaro Q. Barriga, Eric K. Cooper, Mary Ann Gawelek, Kristin Butela, and Elizabeth Johnson ...

Research paper thumbnail of Psychometric Validation of the How I Think About Drugs and Alcohol Questionnaire

Research paper thumbnail of Psychometrical properties of the "How I Think" Questionnaire (HIT-Q) in adolescents

Psicothema, 2013

The How I Think Questionnaire (HIT-Q) was developed to measure the main categories of self-servin... more The How I Think Questionnaire (HIT-Q) was developed to measure the main categories of self-serving cognitive distortions. The present study analyses the psychometric properties of the HIT-Q Spanish-Version. The sample consisted of 1.490 Spanish-speaking adolescents recruited from various schools in Madrid (Spain). The participants had a mean age of 15.37 years (SD = 1.67). Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) showed that the underlying structure of the HIT-Q was best explained by a six-factor solution (Self-Centred, Blaming Others, Minimizing/Mislabelling, Assuming the Worst, Anomalous Responses and Positive Fillers). After examination of its psychometric properties, it was concluded that the Spanish version of the HIT-Q is a reliable and valid measure of self-serving cognitive distortions in Spanish adolescents.

Research paper thumbnail of How I Think Questionnaire

Research paper thumbnail of How I Think about Drugs and Alcohol Questionnaire

Research paper thumbnail of Cognitive Distortion and Problem Behaviors in Adolescents

Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2000

The authors investigated the prevalence of self-serving and self-debasing cognitive distortions a... more The authors investigated the prevalence of self-serving and self-debasing cognitive distortions and their specific relations to externalizing and internalizing problem behaviors in 96 incarcerated male and female delinquents and a comparison sample of 66 high school students. The incarcerated participants evidenced higher levels of cognitive distortion (self-serving and self-debasing) and problem behavior (externalizing and internalizing) than did comparison participants. Both

Research paper thumbnail of It's All About Me: A Brief Report of Incarcerated Adolescent Sex Offenders' Generic and Sex-Specific Cognitive Distortions

Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 2008

This study investigated the scope of cognitive distortions and their relationship to empathy amon... more This study investigated the scope of cognitive distortions and their relationship to empathy among adolescent sex offenders. Self-report measures of sex-specific and generic self-serving cognitive distortions as well as empathy were administered to 175 male sex offenders aged 12 to 20 incarcerated at a juvenile correctional facility. Generic distortions (e.g., attribution of carelessness to theft victims) were elevated and correlated with sex-specific distortions (e.g., attribution of promiscuity to rape victims). Sex-specific and generic distortions were each inversely associated with unique variance in empathy. Relationships of the distortions to particular contexts of victimization and empathic distress (i.e., for their own sexual abuse victim, another offender's sexual abuse victim, or an accident victim) were also explored. Results suggested that adolescent sex offenders' self-serving cognitive distortions may pervasively neutralize concerns for victims and, therefore, that treatment programs should aim to remediate not only their sex-specific but also their generic self-serving cognitive distortions.

Research paper thumbnail of Effects of psychoeducation for offenders in a community correctional facility

Journal of Community Psychology, 2004

The present study provided a randomized outcome evaluation of the psychoeducational component of ... more The present study provided a randomized outcome evaluation of the psychoeducational component of the EQUIP program. The psychoeducational curriculum was implemented in a community correctional facility for adult felony offenders. The psychoeducational curriculum is designed to remedy offenders' delays in moral judgment maturity, social cognitive distortions, and social skill deficiencies. The participants were 316 felony offenders, 71% male, aged 18 to 61 years. Relative to a control group, participants who received portions of the curriculum reported fewer serious institutional violations. Female, but not male participants, who received the curriculum were less likely to recidivate than those in the control group at six months. Reductions in mediating factors-cognitive distortion for males and social skills for females-were associated with fewer serious institutional violations. Levels of substance abuse, exposure to violence, and number of serious violations were found to predict recidivism at six months.

Research paper thumbnail of Specificity of cognitive distortions to antisocial behaviours

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 2008

Cognitive distortions have long been posited to facilitate antisocial behaviours, but the specifi... more Cognitive distortions have long been posited to facilitate antisocial behaviours, but the specificity of such distortions has rarely been studied. To replicate findings of specificity between particular cognitions and externalizing or internalizing behaviours; to test for specificity of relationship between particular cognitions and different types of externalizing behaviours. The participants were 239 male youths aged 10 to 19 years (mean (M) = 14.22, standard deviation (SD) = 1.64) from schools on the island of Curaçao. Their cognitive distortions and problem behaviours were investigated through self-report. Results In controlled analyses, self-serving cognitive distortions were associated with externalizing behaviours whereas self-debasing cognitive distortions were associated with internalizing behaviours. Within the externalizing domain, self-serving distortions with overt behavioural referents were linked to aggressive behaviour while self-serving distortions with covert behavioural referents were linked to delinquent behaviour. Within the aggression domain, distortions with opposition-defiance referents related to verbal aggression whereas distortions with physical aggression referents related to physically aggressive behaviour. The degree of cognitive-behavioural specificity documented by this study was remarkable. The observed pattern suggests that cognitive interventions designed for externalizing versus internalizing behaviours should differ in therapeutic approach.

Research paper thumbnail of Dialogue and Exchange of Information about Grade Inflation can Counteract its Effects

College Teaching, 2008

Page 1. Vol. 55/No. 2 201 Vol. 56/No. 4 201 DIALOGUE AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ABOUT GRADE INFL... more Page 1. Vol. 55/No. 2 201 Vol. 56/No. 4 201 DIALOGUE AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ABOUT GRADE INFLATION CAN COUNTERACT ITS EFFECTS Alvaro Q. Barriga, Eric K. Cooper, Mary Ann Gawelek, Kristin Butela, and Elizabeth Johnson ...

Research paper thumbnail of Validation of the ‘How I Think Questionnaire’ in a Population of French-speaking Adolescents with Externalizing Behaviors

Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2012

&... more 'How I Think Questionnaire' (HIT) is used to measure self-serving cognitive distortions among delinquents. Previously validated on Americans, this instrument was translated, adapted and validated for French-speaking teens. To assess convergent and discriminant validity, 336 adolescents with externalizing behaviors in Québec (Canada) completed the HIT, the Self-Reported Delinquency Scale (SRD), and the Auto-aggression Questionnaire. There were 165 boys and 171 girls with M(age) = 16.4 years (SD = 0.5) who received services under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (n = 145) or the Youth Protection Act (n = 191). HIT and SRD total scores were correlated (0.51, p < 0.01). On the HIT, past suicidal attempting delinquents were not significantly different than non-suicide attempting delinquents; also delinquents living in closed detention facilities had more self-serving cognitive distortions than delinquents living in open facilities or under probation in the community. This French-language version of the HIT is a reliable and valid measure.