Efectividad de una intervención escolar con adolescentes en laidentificación de situaciones de violencia en la pareja

Abstract

The incidence of physical, psychological and sexual violent behaviours in datingrelationships within juvenile and adolescent is increasing each year, according toofficial data, statistics and epidemiological studies. Early prevention could diminish orstop those behaviours, the prospective violence against women during adulthood as wellas consequences of victimization. With the objective of analyse the effectiveness of aschool preventive program to make aware adolescent population and the identificationof dating violence conducts, a within-subjects quasi-experimental study, with pre andpost intervention measure without control group was designed. Fifty six students with ages between 13 and 16 years participated in the program that is made up of five partsof which two of them are focused on dating violence. The VERA questionnaire(Violencia Ejercida y Recibida de Jóvenes Adolescentes) was administered to all thestudents. Results have shown that overall; the program was effective for identifyingviolent behaviours. However, women classified as more violent all the situationsproposed in VERA’s and, furthermore, they informed of a greater knowledge inidentifying different violent typologies contrasting to men. These results suggest themore sensibility and capability in labelling dating violence behaviours than theirmasculine pairs, while men tend to minimize those cues. The results are discussed inrelation to preventive interventions.