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Abstract
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.
Highlights
Dating violence, considered a subtype of intimate partner violence, has shown itself to be a construct that poses scientific challenges, its analysis encompassing biological, social, cultural and ideological factors [1]
Four schools were assigned to the experimental group and the remaining three to the control group
The aim of this study was to evaluate the program’s efficacy in reducing adolescent partner aggression and victimization; in regulating anger, self-esteem and beliefs about love and violence; and in relation to some variables associated with couple quality among Spanish adolescents aged 12 to 19 years attending state high schools with medium economic, social and cultural level in the Andalucıa region
Summary
Dating violence, considered a subtype of intimate partner violence, has shown itself to be a construct that poses scientific challenges, its analysis encompassing biological, social, cultural and ideological factors [1]. In terms of online violence, and despite being an emerging study phenomenon, data indicate that it occurs between 5% and 56% of cases, depending on the severity of the behavior under analysis [8]. These data, coupled with the serious consequences that violence has on the health and well-being of adolescent populations, such as worse psychological adjustment, drug consumption, suicide attempt, internalizing and/or externalizing problems, among others [9,10,11], have turned it into a global public health problem [12], which calls for the development of evidence-based intervention programs.
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