This study presents the first evaluation of Dat-e Adolescence, a dating violence prevention program aimed at adolescents in Spain. A cluster randomized control trial was used involving two groups (a control group and experimental group) and two waves (pre-test and post-test six months apart). 1,764 students from across seven state high schools in Andalucía (southern Spain) participated in the study (856 in the control group and 908 in the experimental group); 52.3% were boys (n = 918), with ages ranging from 11 to 19 years (average age = 14.73; SD = 1.34). Efficacy evaluation was analyzed using Latent Change Score Models and showed that the program did not impact on physical, psychological or online aggression and victimization, nor did it modify couple quality. It was, however, effective at modifying myths about romantic love, improving self-esteem, and improving anger regulation, as a trend. These initial results are promising and represent one of the first prevention programs evaluated in this country. Future follow-up will allow us to verify whether these results remain stable in the medium term.

Background: The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of the school-based “Dat-e Adolescence” prevention program in the reduction of dating aggression and victimization and bullying in adolescents. Method: a RCT design with three waves (pre-test, post-test and follow-up six months apart) and two groups (an experimental group and a control group) were used. One thousand four hundred and twenty three (1423) adolescents, mean age 14.98 (557 in the experimental group) participated in the study. Results: Efficacy evaluation was analyzed using Multiple-group latent growth models and showed that the Dat-e Adolescence program was effective in reducing sexual and severe physical dating violence and bullying victimization. Conclusions: The results suggest that dating violence prevention programs could be an effective approach for tackling different behavioral problems in adolescence given the protective and risk factors shared between dating violence and bullying.

The present study was aimed at investigating the narrative strategies bullies and victims use to interpret social incongruence and the extent to which these strategies vary across the two European countries of Italy and Spain. A peer nomination questionnaire on bullyAndrea Smorti is affiliated with the ing was used to select 12-14-year-old children from both countries. The children were asked to read six stories dealing with themes of social interaction between two peers; each story described an episode in which the protagonist performed an act that violated his or her normal behaviour towards the peer. Three stories ended in negative violating acts (regressive stories) and the other three stories ended in positive acts (progressive stories). Participants were then asked to imagine what had happened prior to the act and to write a story about it. Narrative strategies were analysed in terms of three variables: locus of antecedent, mental verbs, and social intention. Results revealed that both the Italian and Spanish samples used more internal strategies to interpret progressive stories and more external strategies for regressive stories. Moreover, cross-national differences were particularly evident in bullies: Italian bullies used fewer internal and internal cognitive strategies than control children did, while in Spain, bullies used more internal and internal cognitive hostile strategies than victims did.

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The main aim of this contribution is to describe an instrument devised to study some of the cognitive processes that occur when people interpret social events (Discrepant Story Task -DST;Smorti, 2004

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El presente artículo pretende abordar el cultivo de patio desde su componente cultural como parte de las familias y la comunidad campesina, en el marco de estrategias locales, esfuerzos colectivos y programas gubernamentales para combatir la pobreza extrema y el sistema que la produce y per-petua. La aproximación a la comunidad concreta permite conocer la particularidad pero también encontrar puentes que vinculen estas reeexiones con la realidades compartidas por buena parte de las comunidades en todo el país, especialmente aquellas en donde la herencia campesina y el vínculo con la tierra y sus frutos sigue siendo fuertes, a pesar del constante avance de la lógica urbana y de tercerización de la economía. El presente trabajo tiene su base en la etnografía como método de aproximación a la vida cotidiana y la teoría antropológica como lógica cientííca de compresión de la comunidad y sus estrategias de desarrollo, y se enmarca en el esfuerzo sostenido de investigación que viene desarrollado el Departamento de Antropología de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Jurídicas de la UNAN-Managua, es decir está profundamente vinculada con un esfuerzo colectivo e institucional. Abstract is article approaches economics from its cultural compontent, as part of the economic strategies of peasant families and communities, within the framework of local strategies, collective eeorts and governmental programs to combat extreme poverty and the system that produces and perpetuates it. We reeect and link our reeections with the realities shared by a major part of the rural communities in the whole country, especially those in which the traditional peasant link to the land and its fruits continue to be strong, despite the constant advance of the urban logic and the tendency toward a service-oriented economy. is paper is based on ethnography as a method of approaching daily life, and anthropological theory as a scientiic logic for comprehending the community and its development strategies.