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Título
Effectiveness of a Prevention Program for Gender-Based Intimate Partner Violence at a Colombian Primary School
Autor(es)
Assunto
Intimate partner violence
Prevention
Middle childhood
Primary education
Gender stereotypes
socio-emotional skills
Fecha de publicación
2020
Citación
Garzón Segura AM and Carcedo González RJ (2020) Effectiveness of a Prevention Program for Gender-Based Intimate Partner Violence at a Colombian Primary School. Front. Psychol. 10:3012. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03012
Resumen
Intimate partner violence, particularly against women, is widely studied owing to its
high rates, based on transnational data. Colombia, where this form of violence is
considerably common, is no exception, and such violence is occurring more and more
often in increasingly younger couples (1014 years old). Further, risk factors such as
wide acceptance, the justification of intimate partner violence, extremely rigid traditional
gender roles, and poor socio-emotional skills play a crucial role. In accordance with
this reality, a gender-based intimate partner violence prevention program was designed,
implemented, and evaluated for primary school children in Colombia based on a
review of successful preventive programs and an identification of the main predictors
of intimate partner violence. The program was evaluated using a quantitative study with
a quasi-experimental design that included an experimental and a control group. In total,
344 participants were involved in the study: 195 boys (56.7%) and 149 girls (43.4%)
from the second and third grades of a primary school (average age: 7.8 years) at a
Colombian educational institution. The experimental group consisted of 200 participants
and the control group of 144 participants. The program’s effectiveness was evaluated
by measuring three groups of variables (gender stereotypes, the acceptance of violence,
and socio-emotional skills) using reliable scales. To analyze the program’s effectiveness,
mixed ANOVAs with a within-subjects factor (when the group was measured), two
between-subjects factors (group and gender), and a covariate (age) were used. The
results showed that the participants in the experimental group had lower scores
in gender stereotypes, acceptance of peer aggression, and acceptance of physical
violence against women compared to the control group. Conversely, they had higher
scores in affective empathy after the intervention; both groups showed no significant
differences before the intervention. This program is highly relevant because it has proven
to have a positive impact on the participants and is innovative due to the lack of
preventive programs that have been implemented in primary education and evaluated
within the Colombian context.
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DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03012
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