Dos Santos Karine Brito, Murta Sheila Giardini, do Amaral Vinha Luis Gustavo, de Deus Juliana Silva
Collegiate of Psychology, UniAmérica University Center, Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil.
Institute of Psychology, University of Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil.
Psicol Reflex Crit. 2019 Oct 16;32(1):20. doi: 10.1186/s41155-019-0133-4.
Peers are the preferred source of help for Brazilian adolescents who experience dating violence. However, they are not always the best informants for effective responses for dealing with situations of violence in romantic relationships among peers. This experimental study aimed to evaluate the short-term efficacy of three aspects of a peer- and bystander approach-based intervention: the intent to offer help, empathy, and bystander attitudes in response to dating violence in a Brazilian sample of adolescents. The study's participants were 33 adolescents randomized in two groups: experimental group (EG, n = 14) and control group (CG, n = 19). The EG underwent three weekly intervention sessions of 90 min each on the healthy versus violent romantic relationships, the quality of friendship in the peer network, and the role of the bystander, while the CG received no intervention. Evaluations were performed 1 week before and two and half months after the intervention. Statistically significant differences between EG and CG at post-test were not found in intention to help, empathy, and bystander attitudes. Future studies should include evaluations of larger samples and mid- and long-term follow-ups to identify patterns of change over the long term as well as examine barriers to utilization of bystander behaviors by adolescents in Brazilian culture.
对于遭受约会暴力的巴西青少年而言，同龄人是他们首选的求助对象。然而，在应对同龄人恋爱关系中的暴力情况时，同龄人并不总是提供有效应对措施的最佳信息提供者。这项实验研究旨在评估基于同龄人和旁观者方法的干预措施三个方面的短期效果：在巴西青少年样本中，针对约会暴力提供帮助的意愿、同理心和旁观者态度。该研究的参与者为33名青少年，随机分为两组：实验组（EG，n = 14）和对照组（CG，n = 19）。实验组接受了为期三周、每周一次、每次90分钟的干预课程，内容涉及健康恋爱关系与暴力恋爱关系、同龄人网络中的友谊质量以及旁观者的角色，而对照组未接受任何干预。在干预前1周以及干预后两个半月进行了评估。在测试后，实验组和对照组在提供帮助的意愿、同理心和旁观者态度方面未发现统计学上的显著差异。未来的研究应包括对更大样本的评估以及中长期随访，以确定长期的变化模式，并研究巴西文化中青少年利用旁观者行为的障碍。
