Wise Interventions in the Digital Society

NCT ID: NCT04497506

Last Updated: 2023-05-10

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 1212 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-09-15
• Study Completion Date: 2021-07-31

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

Cyberbullying; Grooming; Risk Behavior

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Self-affirmation and Incremental theory of personality

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

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

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

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The intervention designed to promote prosocial behavior and reduce online risks is based on four general types of change strategies: (1) scientific knowledge, (2) generation of new meanings, (3) commitment through action, and (4) active reflection. It includes two components: a self-affirmation activity and an ITP intervention. The SA component includes a list of values so that they could choose the two or three most important for them. Next, they are asked to write why those selected values are the most important to them. The ITP component includes activities such as reading scientific information about social behavior and its role in people's well-being, the meaning and value of online risk behaviors through stories and videos of the experiences of other young people of their age, and self-persuasion exercises that involve an active commitment to change.

Standard preventive intervention

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

Group Type: OTHER

Standard preventive intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

It consists of an educational intervention that provides a number of strategies to manage everyday conflicts among adolescents. This intervention teaches them new ways to manage these difficulties through different actions (relaxation, distraction, sports, etc.). Finally, they are asked to plan the strategies they will use in the future in the face of some difficulties and to recommend some guidelines for another adolescent who may be going through a similar situation.

Interventions

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

The intervention designed to promote prosocial behavior and reduce online risks is based on four general types of change strategies: (1) scientific knowledge, (2) generation of new meanings, (3) commitment through action, and (4) active reflection. It includes two components: a self-affirmation activity and an ITP intervention. The SA component includes a list of values so that they could choose the two or three most important for them. Next, they are asked to write why those selected values are the most important to them. The ITP component includes activities such as reading scientific information about social behavior and its role in people's well-being, the meaning and value of online risk behaviors through stories and videos of the experiences of other young people of their age, and self-persuasion exercises that involve an active commitment to change.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Standard preventive intervention

It consists of an educational intervention that provides a number of strategies to manage everyday conflicts among adolescents. This intervention teaches them new ways to manage these difficulties through different actions (relaxation, distraction, sports, etc.). Finally, they are asked to plan the strategies they will use in the future in the face of some difficulties and to recommend some guidelines for another adolescent who may be going through a similar situation.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 11 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 19 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Fundación BBVA

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Deusto

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Esther Calvete

Principal Investigator, Deusto Stress Research Team, University of Deusto

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Esther Calvete, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Deusto

Locations

University of Deusto

Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain

Countries

Spain

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Document Type: Informed Consent Form

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Other Identifiers

PR[18]_SOC_0096

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id