Grups d'Investigació

GIUV2015-236

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• To provide responses, programs, and resources for prevention and applied intervention in relation to the contexts involved in prosocial behavior. The ultimate goal of our research, among other tasks, is to communicate the results obtained to the scientific community; publish in high-impact journals; develop protocols for action in situations such as peer harassment (bullying and cyberbullying), intimate partner violence, and child-to-parent violence; offer training courses for parents and teachers; and design prevention and intervention programs aimed at fostering resilience or personal protection in the face of adversity during a particularly vulnerable stage of life, such as pre-adolescence and adolescence.

• 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).

• Research and experimental development in the social sciencies and humanities

• Basic Psychology

• CHILDREN
• FAMILY
• ADOLESCENCE
• EMOTIONS
• YOUTH
• AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
• PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR
• EQUAL
• BINGE DRINK
• PSYCHOSOCIAL DETERMINANTS
• ADDICTIVE PROCESS