TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding for Which Students and Classes a Socio-Ecological Aggression Prevention Program Works Best
T2 - Testing Individual Student and Class Level Moderators
AU - Bardach, Lisa
AU - Yanagida, Takuya
AU - Gradinger, Petra
AU - Strohmeier, Dagmar
N1 - Funding Information:
The large scale implementation and evaluation of the ViSC program was funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Cultural Affairs (PI: Christiane Spiel, Co-PI: Dagmar Strohmeier) between 2008 and 2013. There was no funding for the data analyses and writing of the present study. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - School-based aggression prevention programs may not be equally effective for all students and classes, depending on student and class characteristics. This study investigated moderators of a cluster randomized controlled socio-ecological aggression prevention program’s effectiveness (change from pretest to posttest, sample: 2,042 preadolescents, mean age = 11.7 years, SD = 0.09, 47.6% girls) and sustainability (change from posttest to follow-up test, sample: 659 preadolescents, mean age = 12.7 years, SD = 0.08, 47.9% girls). The program worked better in multicultural classes, as greater ethnic diversity strengthened the program’s effectiveness and sustainability. Moderating effects of a positive social class climate and higher baseline levels of aggressive behavior and victimization were also found. These results advance socio-ecological theorizing and can help develop more contextualized interventions.
AB - School-based aggression prevention programs may not be equally effective for all students and classes, depending on student and class characteristics. This study investigated moderators of a cluster randomized controlled socio-ecological aggression prevention program’s effectiveness (change from pretest to posttest, sample: 2,042 preadolescents, mean age = 11.7 years, SD = 0.09, 47.6% girls) and sustainability (change from posttest to follow-up test, sample: 659 preadolescents, mean age = 12.7 years, SD = 0.08, 47.9% girls). The program worked better in multicultural classes, as greater ethnic diversity strengthened the program’s effectiveness and sustainability. Moderating effects of a positive social class climate and higher baseline levels of aggressive behavior and victimization were also found. These results advance socio-ecological theorizing and can help develop more contextualized interventions.
KW - Aggressive behavior, Victimization, Randomized controlled, Moderator, Effectiveness, Climate, Ethnic diversity
KW - Bullying/prevention & control
KW - Crime Victims
KW - Students
KW - Aggression
KW - Humans
KW - Female
KW - Male
KW - School Health Services
KW - Child
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85121466111&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10964-021-01553-6
DO - 10.1007/s10964-021-01553-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 34921654
AN - SCOPUS:85121466111
SN - 0047-2891
VL - 51
SP - 225
EP - 243
JO - Journal of Youth and Adolescence
JF - Journal of Youth and Adolescence
IS - 2
ER -
