Assessment and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence: Psychosocio-educational and emotional variables involved in prosocial behavior - EVAIN

Reference of the Group:

GIUV2015-236

 
Description of research activity:
The research activity focuses on analysing the contexts involved in prosocial behaviour: family, school and peer groups, fundamentally around family and the different types of family, variables related to family cohesion and conflict, child-to-parent violence, the hierarchy of values, prosocial development and agressive behaviour in children and adolescents and their integration in an intercultural context. In particular, we focus our research on the protective factors that favour and strengthen prosocial behaviour in adolescence and childhood: factors of protection and vulnerability to aggression, taking into account personal, family, emotional, school and peer relationship variables. Types of family: given their importance in the psychosocial development of children, the variables are analysed considering the different types of family and aggressiveness/prosociality of children (discrimination between single-parent, two-parent, LGBT-parent families, family structure, biological or adoptive family). Adolescence and childhood: analysis of parenting practices and styles, friendship relationships, intimate partner violence, bullying and victimisation, school failure and risk...The research activity focuses on analysing the contexts involved in prosocial behaviour: family, school and peer groups, fundamentally around family and the different types of family, variables related to family cohesion and conflict, child-to-parent violence, the hierarchy of values, prosocial development and agressive behaviour in children and adolescents and their integration in an intercultural context. In particular, we focus our research on the protective factors that favour and strengthen prosocial behaviour in adolescence and childhood: factors of protection and vulnerability to aggression, taking into account personal, family, emotional, school and peer relationship variables. Types of family: given their importance in the psychosocial development of children, the variables are analysed considering the different types of family and aggressiveness/prosociality of children (discrimination between single-parent, two-parent, LGBT-parent families, family structure, biological or adoptive family). Adolescence and childhood: analysis of parenting practices and styles, friendship relationships, intimate partner violence, bullying and victimisation, school failure and risk behaviours in adolescents and pre-adolescents, such as alcohol abuse, together with the analysis of emotional competences mainly in adolescence, but also in childhood. Other variables to be analysed: anxiety, depression, stress, coping mechanisms and the relationship with peers, prosocial peers-aggressive peers.
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Scientific-technical goals:
  • Proporcionar respuestas, programas y recursos de prevencion e intervencion aplicada, en relacion a los contextos implicados en la conducta prosocial. El fin ultimo de nuestra investigacion, entre otras tareas, persigue la comunicacion a la comunidad cientifica de los resultados obtenidos; publicacion en revistes de impacto; elaboracion de protocolos de actuacion ante situaciones como el acoso entre iguales (bullying y cyberbullying), violencia en la pareja, violencia filioparental; cursos de formacion a padres y profesorado; diseño de programas de prevencion e intervencion dirigidos a fomentar la resiliencia o la proteccion personal ante la adversidad, en una etapa en la que se es especialmente vulnerable, como es la preadolescencia y adolescencia.
 
Research lines:
  • Psychological processes and prosocial behavior.The variables involved in prosocial versus aggressive behaviour are investigated, analysing the different contexts involved in these behaviours: family, school and peer groups, fundamentally around family and the different types of family, related to family cohesion and conflict, child-to-parent violence, the hierarchy of values, prosocial development and agressive behaviour in children and adolescents and their integration in an intercultural context. Based mainly on how, in recent years, different forms of violence have increased in adolescence, such as peer violence (bullying and cyberbullying), child-to-parent violence and gender-based violence (between couples), with important consequences in the personal, family, school and social spheres. Emotions and their lack of self-regulation, lack of empathy, coping mechanisms, peer preassure, the socialisation process and the values that society transmits are factors that may be behind these behaviours. In particular, we focus our research on the protective factors that favour and strengthen prosocial behaviour in adolescence: factors of protection and vulnerability to aggression, taking into account personal, family, school and peer relationship variables. Types of family: given their importance in the psychosocial development of children, the variables are analysed considering the different types of family and aggressiveness/prosociality of children (discrimination between single-parent families, family structure, biological or adoptive family). Adolescence: analysis of emotional competences in adolescence (11-18 years old), as well as of parenting practices and styles, school failure and risk behaviours in adolescents, such as alcohol abuse. Other variables to be analysed: anxiety, depression, stress, coping mechanisms and the relationship with peers, prosocial peers-aggressive peers.
  • Psychosocial determinants of the addictive process.Focused on the specific field of addictive behaviours, this research line develops intervention PROGRAMMES for young people who have been fined for the consumption or possession of addictive substances on the street, with an important aspect being the adaptation of the action to the characteristics of each of the groups to be intervened, adjusting to the many differences found among young people from different cultures and races. On the other hand, this research line is also aimed at the ADAPTATION of tools, given that in recent years intensive alcohol consumption has become consolidated among Spanish minors, often leading to alcohol intoxication and in which the incorporation of female teenagers between 14 and 15 years of age is increasingly notorious and worrying (Cortés, Giménez & Motos, 2012; Cortés, 2012; OED, 2013). The consequences of this pattern of consumption on brain development and the effects it has on attention, processing and retention of new information, emotional control, etc., are known with considerable accuracy (López et al., 2013; Crego et al., 2009; Guerri, 2010; Tapert, 2007), but there is not the same level of knowledge about to what extent and in what way it is interfering in the development of each of the social and personal skills that are acquired at this age and which, like the deterioration in brain structure, will also have consequences on the optimal development of these young people. It has become evident that in this aspect it is not possible to use tools adapted from other countries, since the pattern of consumption differs markedly (OED, 2013).
 
Group members:
Name Nature of participation Entity Description
PAULA SAMPER GARCIADirectorUniversitat de València
Research team
Mª VICENTA MESTRE ESCRIVAMemberUniversitat de València
ANA MARIA TUR PORCARMemberUniversitat de València
ANNA LLORCA MESTREMemberUniversitat de València
ELISABETH MALONDA VIDALMemberUniversitat de València
LUCAS SERRANO PASTORMemberUniversitat de València
ALFREDO ZARCO ALPUENTEMemberUniversitat de València
MARIA TERESA CORTES TOMASCollaboratorUniversitat de València
GUSTAVO CARLOCollaboratorUniversity of Missouriendowed professor
BELEN MESURADOCollaboratorConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina)doctor
CONCETTA PASTORELLICollaboratorUniversità degli Studi de Roma "La Sapienza"professor
CRISTINA RICHAUDCollaboratorConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina)postdoctoral researcher
MARTA CARRIQUE MARTINEZCollaboratorUniversitat de València - Estudi GeneralUVEG PhD student
 
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Associated structure:
  • Basic Psychology
 
Keywords:
  • Conducta Prosocial; adolescencia; infancia; familia; emociones; iguales; conducta agresiva
  • Determinantes psicosociales; adolescencia; juventud; proceso adictivo; binge drinking