Impact assessment of an educational intervention programme using a serious game on cyberviolence against women and girls

Brečko, Barbara Neža (author), Plaskan, Jure (author), Davidovi, Giorgi (author)

Cyberviolence among teenagers is a persistent problem addressed by several prevention programmes. In this article, we evaluate an educational intervention programme based on a serious game (CyberSafe Tool) that addresses cyberviolence against women and girls. The goal of the intervention and the serious game was to raise young people’s awareness of online violence against women and girls and to promote safe and responsible online behaviour. The intervention, conducted between 2020 and 2021, included 959 teenagers between 13 and 16 years old from Italy, Greece, Estonia and the United Kingdom. We used a survey questionnaire to conduct an impact assessment. It was administered three times – before the intervention, immediately after the intervention and three weeks after the intervention – to identify participants’ attitudinal changes. The results indicate significant positive attitude changes after the intervention that remained unchanged after the third questionnaire, which was administered three weeks after the intervention.

• Language: English
• Keywords: cyberviolence, serious game, intervention, impact assessment
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: In print
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: [15] str.
• Numbering: Vol. , no.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164765
• UDC: 343.436:004.738.5
• ISSN on article: 2523-3661
• DOI: 10.1007/s42380-024-00276-z
• COBISS.SI-ID: 214462211
• Publication date in RUL: 11.11.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of bullying prevention
• Shortened title: Int Journal of Bullying Prevention
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• ISSN: 2523-3661
• COBISS.SI-ID: 114518275

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: spletno nadlegovanje, najstniki

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P5-0399
• Name: Internetno raziskovanje

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme
• Project number: 810264
• Name: Prevent and combat gender-based violence and violence against children
• Acronym: REC-RDAP-GBV-AG-2017