Effectiveness of a mobile app intervention to prevent dating violence in residential child care

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 be...

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Published in:Intervención psicosocial 2020, Vol.29 (2), p.59-66
Main Authors: Navarro-Péreza, José J, Oliver, Amparo, Carbonell, Ángela, Schneider, Barry H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
adolescence
Adolescencia
Adolescents
Ambivalence
Attitudes
Centros de acogida
Child abuse & neglect
Child care
Children
Children & youth
Dating
dating violence
Design
Domestic violence
European cultural groups
Females
Gender
Group homes
Institutionalization
Intervención
Intervention
Intimate partner violence
Love
Measures
Men
Multivariate analysis
Mythology
Prejudice
Prevention
Psychology
Psychology, Social
Quasi-experimental methods
residential child care
Sexism
Sexismo
Stereotypes
Teenagers
Variance analysis
Violence
Violencia de pareja
Youth
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1132-0559
2173-4712
1132-0559
2173-4712
DOI:10.5093/pi2020a3