Lights4Violence

13/11/2020

This year our team has been awarded in Lights4Violence communications presented to the I Virtual Congress of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE), and the Portuguese Association of Epidemiology (APE):

Factors associated with ambivalent sexism in adolescents: results of the “Lights4violence” project. Authors: A. Ayala, C. Vives-Cases, C. Davó-Blanes, C. Rodríguez-Blázquez, R. Ferrer, B. SanzBarbero. "Emilio Perea" Award for the best senior communications of the Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology 2020.

Intimate partner violence and its associated factors in Spanish adolescents. Authors: V. Pérez-Martínez, B. Sanz-Barbero, MC. Davo-Blanes, D. G. Abiétar, F. Sánchez-Martínez, G. Pérez, C. Vives-Cases. CIBERESP Award for one of the 10 best communications presented by young research staff of the Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology 2020.

Effect of the “Lights4Violence” intervention on the sexist attitudes of European adolescents. B. Sanz Barbero, A. Ayala, M.J. Forjaz, M. Sánchez San Segundo, N. Albaladejo Blázquez, C. Vives Cases. CIBERESP Award for the best communications.

Congratulations to all!

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Este año nuestro equipo ha sido premiado en las comunicaciones presentadas del proyecto Lights4Violence, en el I Congreso Virtual de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (SEE), y de la Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia (APE):

Factores asociados al sexismo ambivalente en adolescentes: resultados del proyecto “Lights4violence”. Autoras: A. Ayala, C. Vives-Cases, C. Davó-Blanes, C. Rodríguez-Blázquez, R. Ferrer, B. SanzBarbero. Premio "Emilio Perea" a las mejores comunicaciones seniors de la Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología 2020.

Violencia de pareja y sus factores asociados en adolescentes españoles. Autoras: V. Pérez-Martínez, B. Sanz-Barbero, MC. Davó-Blanes, D. G. Abiétar, F. Sánchez-Martínez, G. Pérez, C. Vives-Cases. Premio CIBERESP a una de las 10 mejores comunicaciones presentadas por personal investigador joven de la Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología 2020.

Efecto de la intervención “Lights4Violence” en las actitudes sexistas de adolescentes europeos. B. Sanz Barbero, A. Ayala, M.J. Forjaz, M. Sánchez San Segundo, N. Albaladejo Blázquez, C. Vives Cases. Premio CIBERESP a las mejores comunicaciones –Mesa CIBERESP-.

Enhorabuena a todas!

29/11/2019

We are now in the final step of our project and, for this reason, the last contribution of our Blog frames the main findings arising from the project activities as well as the main responses to our initial needs. Have a look at our blog post here http://www.lights4violence.eu/content/after-two-year-lights-cameras-and-actions-against-dating-violence-here-we-are (and keep following us on Instagram https://instagram.com/lights4violence?igshid=ff6s850w2q9i)

We are now in the final step of our project and, for this reason, this last contribution of our Blog will frame the main findings arising from the project activities as well as the main responses to our initial needs. In fact, since the beginning this project has aimed to promote adolescents’ capa...

28/11/2019

We are at the final step of Lights4Violence project and we got many interesting results to share!
In the shortfilms, we can see that adolescents acknowledge their friends, families and school staff as relevant protective assets against violence. During the workshops with students, we observed relevant decrease in sexism, but also a controversial increase in aggressivity. Students demonstrate to be able to manage dating violence situations using different personal skills and relationships. Lights4Violence project has been made in contexts where other related project are taking place. Therefore, we should interpret these results in their specific contexts, and the effect (or lack of this) of other interventions related with this topic. Morever, promoting connections and convergences among similar projects is absolutely needed.
Thank you all for participating in this two-year project and keeo following us!

26/11/2019

The Italian situation regarding gender stereotypes and violence is alarming. A survey by ISTAT provides very worrying data:https://www.istat.it/it/files//2019/11/Report-stereotipi-di-genere.pdf
About violence in a couple, 7.4% of people always consider it acceptable or in some circumstances that "a boy slaps his girlfriend because he flirted with another man", 6.2% that in a couple we escape a slap every now and then. Compared to the control, however, there are more than twice as many people (17.7%) who consider it always acceptable or in some circumstances that a man routinely checks the mobile phone and / or social networking activities of his wife / girlfriend.
When asked why some men are violent with their partners/wives, 77.7% of the respondents respond because women are considered objects of property (84.9% women and 70.4% men), 75.5% because they abuse drugs or alcohol and another 75% because of the need for men to feel superior to their partners/wives. The difficulty of some men in managing anger is indicated by 70.6%, with a difference of about 8 percentage points in favor of women compared to men.
Have a look at report!

25/11/2019

Last saturday, November 23, a massive march paraded in Rome on the occasion of the International Day against Gender Violence that is celebrated today worldwide. Under the slogan "Non Una di Meno" ("Not a Woman Less"), the event appealed to the transnational and pervasive dimensions of the gender-based violence and femicide.
According to a recent study by Eures, in Italy 142 femicides were recorded last year, while stalking, mistreatment and sexual violence are increasing. That is, one woman is killed every 2/3 days, mostly by people she knows. Media narratives about such cases, however, range from blaming the victims to tolerating the perpetrators, from minimising the single case as a raptus to outsourcing it as an immigration issue. "Instead, we know that violence [...] has no passport, color or social class, but often has the key of the home", the NonUnaDiMeno activists write.

In the light of all this, then, intervening against gender-based violence in intimate partner relationships at a young age is increasingly needed. And, hence, project such as Lights4Violence working with teenagers on skills and relationships which do help to build and manage love and dating situations healthly, are absolutely urgent. (📷: .andreawhite)

@ Rome, Italy

20/11/2019

The Polish team gave lectures about the myths surrounding love and sexuality in teen dating relationships as those topics are still not very popular among the professionals working with young people. During the lecture, they talked about the Lights4Violence project as action preparing young people to improve the quality of life and relationships. The Lights4Violence project provided the great opportunity to put those topics on the agenda.

18/11/2019

Members of the Polish team talked about bullying and cyberbullying prevention in Gdynia the last November 5, 2019. Over 200 teachers took actively part in the lecture and then engaged in interactive workshops. Such topics have been pivotal in understanding the main findings of our project, since violence in dating relationships is also influenced within violence among peers.

15/11/2019

The UK Home Office (Research Report 107) indicate that in the year ending 31st March 2017 the economic cost of domestic abuse in the UK was £66 billion (77 billion Euros), with more than 70% of that cost relating to the physical and emotional harm experienced by victims.

This report estimates the social and economic cost for victims of domestic abuse in year ending March 2017 in England and Wales to be approximately £66 billion.

14/11/2019

"LIBRES" is an App for mobile phones aimed at women who suffer or have suffered gender violence and anyone who detects in their environment a possible situation of abuse.
Through a 6-sections main menu, the users can:
- become aware of their situation as victims of gender violence
- learn about the steps to take for facing gender-based violence
- access to resources available for advice and report
- know what self-protection measures they can and should take to safeguard themselves and children
- feel that the whole of society is at your side, that other women have gone through the same situation, have got out and started a new life free from violence!

"All this in an agile, simple, intuitive, free and above all confidential way, since the application has been designed so that it remains hidden in the telephone menu in such a way that nobody else, except herself, knows that she has an application on gender violence".

http://www.violenciagenero.igualdad.mpr.gob.es/informacionUtil/recursos/appLibres/home.htm

12/11/2019

Students at Bro Edern School made films about resolving difficulties in relationships by improving communication skills. They explored how it can be difficult to talk when you are really upset with someone, when emotions are running high. They also looked at how devastating violence can be in relationships.


@ Cardiff

08/11/2019

Margarita Robles, a psychologist in Álava Reyes, states that "physiognomy and genitality do not necessarily define whether a person will feel like a child. Gender identity and physiology are not the same, there is no cause-effect relationship. Pen*s=boy is a very biased and simplistic view of the complex human reality. And she affirms that most children finish nursery school and start school feeling if they are boys or girls.

Mientras unos expertos aseguran que esta educación es la forma más respetuosa de criar, otros consideran que el modelo produce demasiada confusión

08/11/2019

UA team analyzed the content of the video-capsules thorugh a qualitative approach to identify the different types of violence that Spanish adolescents recognized on their dating relationships, as well as the description of the different assets for positive development they used to solve them. Verbal violence is the most represented on the scripts and it is also the more perceived pattern of violence on adolescent population in Spain. It is normalised by adolescents who do not perceive it as something alarming. Even psychological forms of violence have been normalize according the main idea that jealousy is a sign of love. In relation to the assets that they used in their stories to solve conflict relationships, family, school and friendship-related assets were the most present in the video-capsules. Adolescents also show themselves able to deal with dating violence using personal skills such as problem-solving, assertiveness, empathy and communication habilities.