Wise Interventions in the Digital Society

University of Deusto

Status: Completed

Conditions: Risk Behavior; Grooming; Cyberbullying

Treatments: Behavioral: Standard preventive intervention; Behavioral: Wise Intervention (Self-affirmation and Incremental theory of personality)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04497506

PR[18]_SOC_0096

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effectiveness of a Wise intervention based on self-affirmation (SA) and Implicit Theories of Personality (ITP) in Spanish adolescents and young people. Half of participants will receive the ITP and self-affirmation intervention, while the other half will receive a control intervention.

Full description

Adolescence is a period that involves important transitions and learning opportunities. Adolescents and young people learn and develop new competencies and facets in the digital society. Hence, a large part of their social relationships takes place through social media.This offers them numerous positive opportunities for the emotional and social development of adolescents and young people. They can develop positive interactions through prosocial behaviors, empathy, and social support towards others. At the same time it is not without potential risks, especially in adolescence, a stage of psychological vulnerability for risky behaviors. Very recently, interest in scientific social psychology has grown due to a new approach to interventions, which have been called "wise interventions." This approach involves a set of rigorous techniques, based on theory and research, that address specific psychological processes to help people thrive in various life environments. The main objective of this project is to design and evaluate the effectiveness of a wise intervention based on self-affirmation (SA) and Implicit Theories of Personality (ITP) to promote various online prosocial behaviors (help, empathy, collaboration) and prevent online risk and harassment behaviors (online bullying, sexting, grooming). Secondary objectives are (1) to assess the moderating role of gender and the degree of evolutionary development of adolescents and young people, and (2) to evaluate potential mediating mechanisms for the effectiveness of the interventions. The study will involve the evaluation of the intervention in a sample of around 1000 young and adolescents randomly allocated to experimental and control condition.

Enrollment: 1,212 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 19 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Informed consent by the adolescents and their parents.
• To be fluent in Spanish and/or Euskera.

Exclusion criteria

• Lack of permission by parents and the adolescent.
• Lack of understanding of the instructions.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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1,212 participants in 2 patient groups

Self-affirmation and Incremental theory of personality

Experimental group

Description:

1 hour Wise intervention (based on SA and ITP) consisting on several tasks to be completed online individually.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Wise Intervention (Self-affirmation and Incremental theory of personality)

Standard preventive intervention

Other group

Description:

1 hour educational intervention (about stress management) consisting on several tasks to be completed online individually.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard preventive intervention