Eficacia de una app psicoeducativa para reducir el sexismo en adolescentes

Abstract

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.

Effectiveness of a Mobile App Intervention to Prevent Dating Violence in Residential Child Care

“…It contains activities to foster critical and reflective thinking by promoting the development of prosocial skills and attitudes, questioning socially accepted mistaken beliefs, and identifying negative messages. This app has been found to be effective for secondary school students in reducing distortions about romantic love and sexist attitudes (Navarro-Pérez, Carbonell, & Oliver, 2019). Braciszewski et al (2018) recently developed an intervention involving a mobile application, iHeLP, which, in a pilot study with a small sample, proved effective in reducing marijuana use in adolescents residing in care facilities.…”

“…The Liad@s app is available and free to download for android and iOS. The entire contents and domains, the different tests and the scoring system used to develop targeted skills is fully described in Navarro-Pérez et al (2019). In addition to attending the explanatory talk with instructions for using the app, the inclusion criterion for participants to remain in the intervention group was to individually obtain a minimum of 2,500 points in the game, as proof of commitment and evidence that they played with the app enough to become familiar with its contents and procedures.…”

Ambivalent sexism in adolescence: The relationship between family socialization styles and ambivalent sexism in adolescence

“…Various intervention programs have proved to be effective at reducing sexism levels in Spanish adolescents (Carrascosa, Cava, Buelga, & de Jesus, 2019;Navarro-Pérez, Carbonell, & Oliver, 2019). Most of these programs have several characteristics in common: a) they had at least 11 hours of training b) they were taught by specialized professionals, c) they used gamification and role-play and, d) sexism was related to romantic myths.…”

Intimate Partner Cyberstalking, Sexism, Pornography, and Sexting in Adolescents: New Challenges for Sex Education

“…Studies have identified the virtual sphere as a new space conveying many violent situations both in the peer group [8] and in dating relationships [9]. Thus, adolescents' usage of ICT through online applications, video games, etc., should be considered useful to prevent violence and, specifically, partner violence [10]. Following the review carried out by Navarro-Pérez et al [11] on ICT-based intervention tools, the following stand out for the prevention and intervention of Teen Dating Violence (TDV): Teen Choices program [12]; DetectAmor [13] and other mobile applications with a high level of effectiveness such as the Liad@s app [11,14], of an entertaining and educational nature, which aims to help adolescents to have egalitarian and non-toxic couple relationships, and involves having less sexist attitudes, identifying myths about love, and reducing situations of violence in their relationships.…”