Efficacy of a Brief Intervention Based on an Incremental Theory of Personality in the Prevention of Adolescent Dating Violence: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Abstract

Dating violence (DV) is an important, prevalent problem in adolescence worldwide (Wincentak, Connolly, & Card, 2017). It includes any act of physical, emotional, or sexual violence that can take place in person or electronically (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). The recent meta-analytic review of teen DV prevalence rates by Wincentak et al. (2017) showed an overall rate of 20% and 9% for physical and sexual aggression, respectively. Adolescents who are involved in violent dating relationships are h t t p s : / / j o u r n a l s. c o p m a d r i d. o rg / p i Funding: This research was supported by grants from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Spanish government, Ref. PSI2015-68426-R), the Basque Country government (Ref.

<p>Cyber Dating Violence Prevention Programs in Universal Populations: A Systematic Review</p>

“…The same effect is also evident in the results reported by Fernandez-Gonzalez et al (2020). 33 De la Rue Joshua, Polanin, Espelage & Pigott (2014) 44 stress the importance of time lapses in behavior modification: changes in behaviors require time and the development of socio-emotional skills for coping with conflicts within the couple. It may be that students simply do not have the opportunity to put what they have learned into practice in the short time that elapses between the completion of the programs and the post-test evaluation.…”

“…31 In the same line, a more recent study carried out with 604 Spanish adolescents, found positive correlations of cyber dating violence with depressive mood and cyber bullying victimization both in boys and girls, and with loneliness in girls. 32 The need for early prevention is therefore evident 29,[33][34][35][36] and there is a broad consensus regarding the fact that said prevention should begin before adulthood. [37][38][39][40][41][42] In this sense, numerous prevention programs have been developed over recent decades [43][44][45][46] which can basically be divided into two types: specific and universal.…”

“…The belief in the potential to change may modify how adolescents relate to their dating partners. 33 For example, if adolescents interpret the dating partners' behavior as a result of situational factors (for instance, having problems at school) her or his feelings of anger may be reduced, reducing perpetration of dating violence. Table 1 summarizes the results of the validation studies of the three programs.…”

Effects of a Brief Preventive Intervention in Cyberbullying and Grooming in Adolescents

“…Many of these interventions have shown impressive results because they are frequently short-term (often single sessions of one hour) and produce lasting changes in behavior. Thus, many wise interventions have been shown to improve academic performance (Brisson et al, 2017), social integration of ethnic minority youth (Brannon & Walton, 2013), and reduce depression (Miu & Yeager, 2015) and aggressive behavior (Calvete, Fernández-Gonzalez, et al, 2019;Fernández-González et al, 2020) .…”

Development of the Cybercrime Rapid Identification Tool for Adolescents

“…The study also takes a step forward in validating two less commonly recognised risk factors for engaging in cybercrime and cyber-deviance, namely general normative beliefs about aggression and moral disengagement. Early intervention targeting these factors could be made by institutions and caregivers (e.g., schools, parents and social workers) to reduce the risk of adolescents engaging in cybercrime and victimisation [ 98 , 99 , 100 ].…”