Evaluation of the lights4violence program: reduction in machismo and acceptance of violence among adolescents in Europe
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Título: | Evaluation of the lights4violence program: reduction in machismo and acceptance of violence among adolescents in Europe |
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Autor/es: | Pérez-Martínez, Vanesa | Sanz-Barbero, Belen | Ferrer-Cascales, Rosario | Bowes, Nicola | Ayala, Alba | Sanchez-SanSegundo, Miriam | Albaladejo-Blázquez, Natalia | Rosati, Nicoletta | Neves, Sofia | Vieira, Cristina Pereira | Jankowiak, Barbara | Jaskulska, Sylwia | Waszyńska, Katarzyna | Vives-Cases, Carmen |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Salud Pública | Investigación en Género (IG) | Psicología Aplicada a la Salud y Comportamiento Humano (PSYBHE) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Enfermería Comunitaria, Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública e Historia de la Ciencia |
Palabras clave: | Machismo | Acceptance of violence | Empathy | Adolescents | Intervention | Intimate partner violence |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública | Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológico |
Fecha de publicación: | 3-mar-2022 |
Editor: | BMC |
Cita bibliográfica: | BMC Public Health. 2022, 22:426. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12770-4 |
Resumen: | Background: Machismo and acceptance of violence (AV) against women are part of the social construction of hegemonic masculinity and are related to the risk of dating violence. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of the Lights4Violence program in reducing machismo and AV in secondary school students from different European cities. Methods: Quasi-experimental longitudinal study using a convenience sample of 1,146 high school students from different European cities (12–17 years old) including 575 intervention group students (59.1% girls) and 571 control group students (62.7% girls). We performed linear regression models to identify the effect of the intervention, modelling the difference in means in machismo and AV (dependent variables) between wave-2 and wave-1. Results: An interaction was identified between the group variable and the empathy variable. In wave-2, girls with high empathy at baseline in the intervention group obtained lower mean AV scores (β: -0.131; p = 0.004). However, the boys in the intervention group (reference: control group) with low empathy at baseline registered a significant increase in the mean values of machismo (β: 0.247; p < 0.001). Conclusion: The importance of empathy is shown in the effectiveness of interventions to reduce machismo and AV in adolescents. While the Lights4Violence program focuses on promoting healthy relationships, there were some controversial results. It is possible that some children, especially those with less empathy, may have felt “challenged” during the intervention and/or assessment. This suggests the need for the development of interventions that also consider psychological processes and integrate the promotion of positive expressions of masculinity. |
Patrocinador/es: | The project “Lights, Camera and Action against Dating Violence” (Ligts4Violence) was funded by the European Commission Directorate-General Justice and Consumers Rights, Equality and Citizen Violence Against Women Program 2016 for the period 2017–2019 to promote healthy dating relationship assets among secondary school students from different European countries, under grant agreement No. 776905. It was also co-supported by the CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health of Spain for its aid to the Gender-based Violence and Youth Research Program. This study was conducted within the grant received from Instituto de Salud Carlos III, FEDER, and V. Pérez-Martínez is recipient of PFIS grant from FSE (FI19/00201). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/122033 |
ISSN: | 1471-2458 |
DOI: | 10.1186/s12889-022-12770-4 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12770-4 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - SP - Artículos de Revistas INV - Investigación en Género - Artículos de Revistas INV - PSYBHE - Artículos de Revistas INV - EQUIDIVERSIDAD - Artículos de Revistas |
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