Wise Intervention for Reducing Aggressive Behaviors and Promoting Prosocial Behaviors Toward LGB-TNB Individuals

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Wise Intervention LGB-TNB: The intervention will be designed to reduce aggressive behaviors based on sexual orientation and gender identity and to promote prosocial behaviors toward these individuals. This intervention will include three components: (1) reading scientific studies about people's ability to change. In addition, they will read other studies about how thoughts and emotions influence behavior through brain pathways, and that these pathways can be modified under certain circumstances; (2) reading testimonials that support the idea that people can change. These testimonials include accounts of people who were victims or perpetrators based on sexual orientation and gender identity, including important components of empathy and prosocial behaviors toward the victims. To give credibility to the intervention, they will be informed that these stories were written by other young people who previously participated; and (3) self-persuasion exercises that involve an active commitment to change.

Values alignment wise intervention: This intervention will be based on the same strategies as the experimental intervention, but it will not address aspects related to prosocial behaviors or aggression toward LGB-TNB individuals; instead, it will be applied to improve adolescents' eating habits.

Study summary

This study evaluates the effectiveness of a wise Intervention to reduce aggressive behaviors and promote prosocial behaviors toward LGB-TNB individuals among Spanish adolescents. Half of the participants will receive the experimental intervention, while the other half will receive a control intervention.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Change from baseline in aggression scores toward LGB-TNB individuals, assessed using an adaptation of the Spanish version (Orue et al., 2018) of the Homophobic Bullying Scale (Prati, 2012). — Assessments were conducted at baseline and at 3, 6, and 9 months.
  It consists of seven items that ask frequency with wich participants have engaged in specific aggressive behavior toward LGB-TNB individuals. Five response categories are provided using a Likert-type response scale, ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (daily).
• Change from baseline in online aggression scores toward LGB-TNB individuals, assessed using the Technology-Facilitated Gender- and Sexuality-Based violence (TFGSV; Martínez-Bacaicoa et al., 2023). — Assessments were conducted at baseline and at 3, 6, and 9 months.
  It consists of eight items that ask frequency with wich participants have engaged in online aggressive behavior toward LGB-TNB individuals. Five response categories are provided using a Likert-type response scale, ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (daily).
• Change from baseline in prosocial behavior scores toward LGB-TNB individuals through an ad hoc measure. — Assessments were conducted at baseline and at 3, 6, and 9 months.
  It consists of one item in which participants were asked to select all the behaviors they engaged in after witnessing an aggression.
• Change from baseline in bystander intention scores when witnessing aggressive behavior toward LGB-TNB individuals. — Assessments were conducted at baseline, immediately after the intervention, and at 3, 6, and 9 months.
  This measure evaluate bystander intentions in response to LGB-TNB aggressions, through different scenarios. After reading the scenarios, participants answered five items that evaluated possible courses of action to take in response to the aggression.

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