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Relationship between toxic behaviour in online video games and school bullying

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Sandra Sanmartín Feijóo, MSCA DOROTHY COFUND fellow at the University of Galway (Ireland) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium).

The following research work was presented at the 14th EUSPR Conference, which took place in Sarajevo in 2023.

A collaboration between researchers at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), DCU Anti-Bullying Centre, and Cognitive and Affective Regulation Lab (CARLA) from the University of Lausanne, analysed the potential link between online toxic behaviour in video games and higher rates of school bullying.

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The empirical study was carried out in Galicia, a northern region of Spain known for its delicious cuisine and breathtaking landscapes. A sample of 8,817 post-primary students was collected through the collaboration of 59 schools. Their ages ranged from 12 to 18, with an average age of 14.71 years (give or take a few growth spurts, Standard Deviation = 1.84), and they represented a diverse mix of genders, with 49.8% identifying as male, 47.2% as female and 3% as other identities. Data were collected using an online survey including items on toxic gaming behaviours, while the European Bullying Intervention Project Questionnaire (EBIPQ) was used to screen for school bullying. The EBIPQ helps identify three distinct bullying profiles: those who are solely targets, those who are solely perpetrators, and those who have experienced both victimisation and perpetration (known as bully-victims).

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Α needs assessment study protocol for emerging adults whose parents have addiction problems – The EMADAP study

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Boutsiarakos Thalis1, 2, Yotsidi Vasiliki1, Tzavellas Elias3, Dritsas Ioannis4

1 Department of Psychology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
2 Therapeutic Staff at Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals (KETHEA), Athens, Greece
3 Department of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
4 Department of Educational Sciences and Social Work, University of Patras

 

The following research work was presented as a poster at the 14th EUSPR Conference, which took place in Sarajevo in 2023.

Addressing the experience of parental addiction either before the onset or at an early stage of risky behaviors through age-appropriate and evidence-based preventive interventions is crucial. Emerging Adults with Addicted Parents (EMADAP) constitute a vulnerable group at risk of mental health issues, substance use problems, and psychosocial difficulties during late adolescence and emerging adulthood. Studies indicate that approximately 33% to 40% of youth with a substance-dependent parent are likely to develop similar addictive substance use behaviors themselves. In Greece, over 30% of adolescents and young adults who experiment with psychoactive substances come from families with permissive attitudes towards drugs and parental substance use. This presentation will describe the study protocol of the first needs assessment study of EMADAP to address the psychosocial needs and mental health protective factors of this high-risk group with the aim to promote selective prevention for this youth population. The study utilizes mixed research methods involving the collection and analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data in consecutive phases.

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The Prevention of Violence in Schools in Cameroon

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Ezeogu Simone Thierry1, Konfo Tcholong Clémence Idriss, PhD2

1 Msc in psycriminology and psychotraumatology; Professional Member of ISSUP and National Trainer of Trainers on Substance Use Prevention and Treatment

2 Ph.D in Psychopathology and clinical psychology

The following research work was presented at the 14th EUSPR Conference, which took place in Sarajevo in 2023.

In Cameroon, violence in schools has reached a worrying level in recent years. Increasingly constant and deadly, it has become a daily occurrence in virtually all schools. Faced with the scale of this situation, the entire educational community in particular, and all Cameroonians in general, are committed to combating violence in schools. To this end, many platforms like ASBEC (“Association Santé et Bien-être”) are committed to preventing such violence. Based on interventions rooted in the theoretical foundations of multisystemic therapy, we act on the determinants of violence in schools in order to reduce the prevalence of violence in schools. Our approach involves several stages. Assessment enables us to understand the relationship between violence and its overall systemic context. Preventive measures involving the teenager and the members of his or her system focus on the positive aspects of the teenager’s life. Interaction with these different people helps to encourage responsible behaviour and reduce irresponsible behaviour among all those involved. Prevention is geared towards the problems within each system, as well as the interaction between systems. With this approach, we are working towards the primary and secondary prevention of violence in schools in the Cameroonian context.

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The moderating effect of family and community protective factors on the relationship between family and community risk factors and adolescent alcohol and marijuana use

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Katarina Serdar1 & Martina Ferić1

1Laboratory for prevention research (PrevLab), Department of Behavioural Disorders, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb

The following research work was presented as a poster at the 14th EUSPR Conference, which took place in Sarajevo in 2023.

The aim of this poster is to present a doctoral thesis on “The moderating effect of family and community protective factors on the relationship between family and community risk factors and adolescent alcohol and marijuana use.” The purpose of this work is to provide insights into how family and community protective factors modify the relationship between family and community risk factors and adolescent alcohol and marijuana use. The theoretical starting points of the work are the social development strategy and the concept of risk and protective factors. Although there are a number of studies that demonstrate the influence of risk and protective factors in the family and community on adolescent alcohol and marijuana use, there are almost no studies that have examined the moderating effect of protective factors in the family and community on the relationship between risk factors in the family and community and adolescent alcohol and marijuana use. There are no such studies in Croatia. Therefore, the study of the moderating effect of family and community protective factors on the relationship between family and community risk factors and adolescent alcohol and marijuana use represents the scientific contribution of this dissertation.

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The role of compulsive social media use and distraction in adolescent daily social media use

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Lucija Šutić1, Miranda Novak, PhD1, Josipa Mihić, PhD1, Darko Roviš, PhD2

1 Laboratory for Prevention Research, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb

2 Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, and Teaching Public Health Institute of Primorsko-goranska county

The following research work was presented at the 14th EUSPR Conference, which took place in Sarajevo in 2023. It was part of the presentation of the project titled ‘Testing the 5C model of positive youth development – traditional and digital mobile assessment, UIP – 2020 – 02 – 2852,’ funded by the Croatian Science Foundation and highlighted in the session titled ‘The potential of the 5C model of positive youth development in planning prevention strategies.

Compulsive social media use, defined as the inability to control consumption of social media content, appears to be related to problematic learning outcomes, social media fatigue, and higher levels of depression and anxiety. When it comes to daily life, studies suggest that self-control failure, i.e., inability to suppress automatic behavioural tendencies, is positively associated with social media use in most adolescents (Siebers et al., 2021). Daily life methods, such as an ambulatory assessment, involve multiple assessments per day over an extended period of time. Due to the nature of data collection, daily life methods maximise ecological validity, minimise recall bias, and allow researchers to examine between-person and within-person associations. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to examine whether compulsive social media use at the between-person level and distraction at both the between-person and within-person levels predict objectively measured daily social media use.

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