Meta-Analysis on Dating Violence Prevention Among Middle and High Schools

Abstract

Meta-analysis was applied to study the empirical research from 1990-2007 regarding the effectiveness of the dating violence prevention programs in middle and high schools on students' knowledge and attitudes. The results show that overall the program participants improved their knowledge and attitudes towards dating violence. Implications for research and intervention programs were discussed.

The Effect of Young Adult Literature on Adolescents' Rape Myth Acceptance

“…The instructional unit, including class reading time, lasted for 5 weeks, which translates to 21 hours and 40 minutes of instructional time. This is longer than every study except for one in the most recent meta-analysis on dating violence and rape myth reduction where 77% of the interventions lasted less than 6 hours (Ting, 2009). …”

“…The impact of peers' perceived levels of rape myths has been shown to have an effect on rape myth acceptance and in proclivity to rape (Bohner et al, 2006). In an effort to reduce date rape, interventions have been conducted in an effort to reduce rape myth acceptance at the college and the secondary school level (Brecklin & Forde, 2001;Ting, 2009).…”

“…Few previous studies on rape myth acceptance have been conducted in middle schools (MacGowan, 1997;Ting, 2009, Weisz & Black, 2001). Furthermore, this study was conducted with a majority of Hispanic/Latino/a students (52.5%) and a large portion of African American students (34.5%).…”

“…While the Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Burt, 1980) is by far the most frequently used scale for rape myth research (Anderson & Whiston, 2005;Suarez & Gadalla, 2010;Ting, 2009), researchers have suggested that the Rape Myth Acceptance Scale contains outdated items (Pacifici et al, 2001). Taking this into account and because the Rape Myth Acceptance Scale was designed for adult respondents, this study developed a new scale for use with adolescents using modern language and age appropriate situations.…”

Desenvolvimento de um website para prevenção à violência no namoro, abandono de relações íntimas abusivas e apoio aos pares

“…Oliveira et al (2011), em um estudo realizado com 3205 adolescentes de todas as regiões do Brasil, identificaram como mais comum a violência verbal/emocional (85%, violência sofrida; 85,3%, violência perpetrada), seguida de violência sexual (43,8%, violência sofrida; 38,9%, violência perpetrada), ameaça (24,2%, violência sofrida; 29,2%, violência perpetrada), violência física (19,6%, violência sofrida; 24,1%, violência perpetrada) e violência relacional (16%, violência sofrida; 8,9%, violência perpetrada). Tais índices, consideradas as variações resultantes do tipo de violência medida, são consistentes com estudos internacionais, que também têm apontado cenários preocupantes, por exemplo, entre jovens mexicanos (Pick et al, 2010), portugueses (Machado et al, 2010), espanhóis (Muñoz-Rivas et al, 2007), norte-americanos (Ting, 2009) e ingleses (Barter, 2009).…”