The Development of a Sport-based Personal and Social Responsibility Intervention on Daily Violence in Schools

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This research assess the improvements that the implementation of Personal and Social Responsibility Model produces on observed and suffered violence among teenagers. In order to this, a training course was taught to 9 teachers (5 from primary school and 4 from secondary school), who implementated the Responsibility Model during 24 Physical Education lessons. The participants, 215 students from primary education and 189 from secondary education, were divided on 9 control groups and 9 experimental groups. Postest results point that observed violence as well as suffered violence improved significantly on experimental groups, in contrast to control groups, where there were not significant differences in any of both variables. Therefore, Personal and Social Responsibility Model is an efficient teaching methodology to improve the quotidian scholar violence in Physical Education lessons.