Equipping Youth to Think and Act Responsibly: The Effectiveness of the "EQUIP for Educators" Program on Youths' Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions and School Bullying Perpetration.

ABSTRACT: School bullying is a serious public health concern in many countries worldwide. Over recent decades, several effective anti-bullying prevention programs have been developed. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an adapted version of the "Equipping Youth to Help One Another (EQUIP) for Educators" (EfE) program in reducing adolescents' engagement in school bullying perpetration by correcting their use of self-serving cognitive distortions (CDs). Furthermore, guided by the vantage sensitivity framework, we investigated whether the intervention effects varied depending on the adolescents' gender and environmental sensitivity. A quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test with a control group design involved 354 Italian middle and high school adolescents (51.7% males; M_age<

SUBMITTER: Dragone M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9318402 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature