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

IF 3.6 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psychosocial Intervention Pub Date : 2020-04-01 DOI:10.5093/pi2020a3

J. Navarro-Pérez, Amparo Oliver, Á. Carbonell, Barry Schneider

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Abstract

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 pre-post 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 eta-square 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.

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移动应用程序干预预防寄宿儿童看护中约会暴力的有效性

这项研究的重点是使用Liad@s应用程序。这种干预的目的是减少与约会暴力有关的不适应的信念和态度：关于浪漫爱情的扭曲或神话，以及性别歧视的敌意和善意。与对照组进行了一项准实验性的前后研究。参与者是来自巴伦西亚（西班牙）9个集体之家的71名青少年。结果指标是敌对和仁慈的性别歧视（歧义性歧视量表-ASI）、对男性的矛盾和偏见（歧义性男性量表-AMI）以及关于浪漫爱情的神话。使用多变量方差分析（MANOVA）对干预结果进行评估。干预后，治疗组在所有维度上都观察到了具有中大效应大小的统计学显著减少，性别歧视维度的eta平方为.25，神话维度为.38，矛盾心理和偏见维度为.21。实验组在所有指标上都比对照组有更大的变化。干预的益处并没有因参与者的性别而有所不同。这些结果可能有助于参与儿童和青少年护理的专业人员，他们可以从青少年的在线交流倾向中获益。

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Psychosocial Intervention PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

8.00

自引率

8.30%

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审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Psychosocial Intervention is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers in all areas relevant to psychosocial intervention at the individual, family, social networks, organization, community, and population levels. The Journal emphasizes an evidence-based perspective and welcomes papers reporting original basic and applied research, program evaluation, and intervention results. The journal will also feature integrative reviews, and specialized papers on theoretical advances and methodological issues. Psychosocial Intervention is committed to advance knowledge, and to provide scientific evidence informing psychosocial interventions tackling social and community problems, and promoting social welfare and quality of life. Psychosocial Intervention welcomes contributions from all areas of psychology and allied disciplines, such as sociology, social work, social epidemiology, and public health. Psychosocial Intervention aims to be international in scope, and will publish papers both in Spanish and English.