Trial reportPsychological science2013
Social-information-processing patterns mediate the impact of preventive intervention on adolescent antisocial behavior.
Trial report in Psychological science, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01653535 (Multisite Prevention of Conduct Problems), which is not on this map. Cited by 34 papers.
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The trial behind it
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Multisite Prevention of Conduct Problems
Who cites it
34 citing papers in PubMed, 135 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Role of Perspective Taking and Self-Control in a Preventive Intervention Targeting Childhood Disruptive Behavior.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Trial
- The Fast Track intervention's impact on behaviors of despair in adolescence and young adulthood.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Trial
- London Education and Inclusion Project (LEIP): Results from a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intervention to Reduce School Exclusion and Antisocial Behavior.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2017Trial
- Indirect Effects of the Fast Track Intervention on Conduct Disorder Symptoms and Callous-Unemotional Traits: Distinct Pathways Involving Discipline and Warmth.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2016Trial
- Preventing Behavioral Disorders via Supporting Social and Emotional Competence at Preschool Age.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2015Trial
- Testosterone reactivity to provocation mediates the effect of early intervention on aggressive behavior.Psychological science · 2014Trial
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- Longitudinal associations between authoritarian parenting and adolescent antisocial thinking, depression, and anxiety: Between- and within-person effects.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Article
- Children's Responses to Peer Conflict Scenarios: Feasibility and Initial Psychometric Properties of an Interactive Virtual Reality Assessment in a Clinical and Non-Clinical Sample.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Mediation of Treatment Effects in Problem-Focused Social Skills Training versus Resource Activation for Children with Disruptive Behavior Problems: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- The Role of Goals, Outcome Expectations, and Normative Beliefs in the Occurrence of Aggressive Behavior in Children and Adolescents.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Review
- Rumination Mediates the Relation of Hostile Attribution to Psychological Maladjustment Among Adolescents from Three Countries.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Self-Regulation Intervention Impact on Turkish Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorder Risks.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Cognitive pathways to the forms and functions of aggression in adolescence: the role of early maladaptive schemas and social information processing.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Longitudinal associations between positive parenting and youths' engagement in sexting behaviors: the mediating role of filial self-efficacy beliefs.Computers in human behavior · 2024Article
- Expanding understanding of adolescent neural sensitivity to peers: Using social information processing theory to generate new lines of research.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Review
- Moral Thinking and Empathy in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children and Adolescents with Conduct Problems: A Narrative Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Review
- Improving Our Understanding of Impaired Social Problem-Solving in Children and Adolescents with Conduct Problems: Implications for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Review
- Differential associations of conduct disorder, callous-unemotional traits and irritability with outcome expectations and values regarding the consequences of aggression.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2022Article
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Abstract
In the study reported here, we tested the hypothesis that the Fast Track preventive intervention's positive impact on antisocial behavior in adolescence is mediated by its impact on social-cognitive processes during elementary school. Fast Track is the largest and longest federally funded preventive intervention trial for children showing aggressive behavior at an early age. Participants were 891 high-risk kindergarten children (69% male, 31% female; 49% ethnic minority, 51% ethnic majority) who were randomly assigned to an intervention or a control group by school cluster. Multiyear intervention addressed social-cognitive processes through social-skill training groups, parent groups, classroom curricula, peer coaching, and tutoring. Assigning children to the intervention decreased their mean antisocial-behavior score after Grade 9 by 0.16 standardized units (p < .01). Structural equation models indicated that 27% of the intervention's impact on antisocial behavior was mediated by its impact on three social-cognitive processes: reducing hostile-attribution biases, increasing competent response generation to social problems, and devaluing aggression. These findings support a model of antisocial behavioral development mediated by social-cognitive processes, and they guide prevention planners to focus on these processes.
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