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El presente estudio evalúa la eficacia de una intervención consistente en el uso de una aplicación móvil en formato juego dirigida a reducir el sexismo en adolescentes. Se lleva a cabo un estudio cuasiexperimental pretest-postest con grupos de intervención y de control. Participan 369 estudiantes de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria de entre 12 y 17 años de la provincia de Valencia, de los cuales 196 se asignan a la condición de intervención con la aplicación y 173 al grupo control. Se evalúa sexismo hostil y benévolo a partir de la teoría del sexismo ambivalente en ambos momentos temporales. La intervención presencial, de dos h de duración, consiste en explicar la dinámica e implementación del juego que después han de practicar. Los resultados de aplicación del programa se evalúan sobre las dos dimensiones de sexismo. La intervención con la aplicación muestra un cambio significativo reduciendo entre un seis y un 12% el sexismo en adolescentes. Este estudio destaca la utilidad de integrar las TIC como herramientas para la prevención y coeducación en igualdad desde el ámbito educativo, a partir de estrategias lúdicas que permitan el desarrollo de competencias prosociales no sexistas.

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This study focuses on the effectiveness of an app-based, monitored intervention using the Liad@s app in a residential youth-care setting. The aim of this intervention is to reduce maladaptive beliefs and attitudes linked to dating violence: distortions or myths about romantic love and hostile and benevolent dimensions of sexism. A quasi-experimental prepost study with a control group was carried out. Participants were 71 adolescents from 9 group homes in Valencia (Spain). The outcomes measures were hostile and benevolent sexism (Ambivalent Sexism Inventory -ASI), ambivalence and prejudice towards men (Ambivalence toward Men Inventory -AMI), and myths about romantic love. The results of the intervention were assessed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). A post-intervention, statistically significant reduction with a medium-large effect size was observed in all dimensions for the treatment group, with etasquare of .25 for the sexism dimensions, .38 for myths, and .21 for ambivalence and prejudices. The experimental group demonstrated significantly more change than the control group on all measures. The benefits of the intervention did not vary by participants' sex. These results may be helpful to professionals involved in child and youth care, who can profit from adolescents' proclivity toward online communication.

Understanding the construct of romantic love is an important task in societies all around the world. However, instruments designed to assess this construct are scarce and most of them were developed more than a decade ago. De la Peña, Ramos, Luzón, and Recio (2011) proposed the Myths, Fallacies and Erroneous Beliefs about the Ideal of Romantic Love Scale. In this current study we provide the psychometric properties of this scale in a representative sample of adolescents. The analytic strategy included both Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis. We achieved a best-factor structure using a unidimensional model of romantic beliefs which also had an adequate estimated reliability. In agreement with descriptions in the existing academic literature, the resulting romantic beliefs factor was significantly related to hostile and benevolent sexism, although slightly less so in the latter case. Finally, differential validity was examined using 'gender' and 'having a partner' as independent variables; the differences in romantic beliefs according to these variables also agreed with previous reports in the literature. We provide a thorough discussion of our results and highlight the implications of our findings for clinical practice.