Effects of the Prevention Program “HateLess. Together against Hatred” on adolescents’ empathy, self-efficacy, and countering hate speech

Currently, there is a lack of empirically evaluated prevention programs targeting hate speech among adolescents. This is problematic because hate speech jeopardizes adolescents’ well-being and social integration. To this end, this study aims to evaluate the short-term effects of the newly developed...

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Autores: Wachs, Sebastian, Wright, Michelle F., Krause, Norman, Gámez Guadix, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
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https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01753-2
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Palabra clave:Hate speech
counter-speech
prevention
empathy
self-efficacy
diversity
Psicología
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spelling Effects of the Prevention Program “HateLess. Together against Hatred” on adolescents’ empathy, self-efficacy, and countering hate speechWachs, SebastianWright, Michelle F.Krause, NormanGámez Guadix, ManuelHate speechcounter-speechpreventionempathyself-efficacydiversityPsicologíaCurrently, there is a lack of empirically evaluated prevention programs targeting hate speech among adolescents. This is problematic because hate speech jeopardizes adolescents’ well-being and social integration. To this end, this study aims to evaluate the short-term effects of the newly developed anti-hate speech prevention program, “HateLess. Together against Hatred”, on adolescents’ empathy, self-efficacy, and counter-speech. Eight hundred and twenty adolescents between 12 and 16 (M = 13.27, SD = 1.04) from 11 German schools participated in this study. More specifically, 567 adolescents participated in the one-week prevention program, and 253 participants were assigned to the control group. Repeated measures ANOVAs showed that HateLess was successful, as there was a significant increase in empathy, self-efficacy, and counter-speech in the intervention group from the pretest (T1) to the posttest (T2) one month after the intervention. In contrast, no changes were found among adolescents in the control group. A multilevel mediation model revealed that the effect of being a member of the intervention group on counter-speech was partially mediated via empathy and self-efficacy. The findings indicate that HateLess is an effective, cost-efficient approach to enhance adolescents’ counter-speech directly and indirectly by altering the skills they need to become informed citizens in democratic societiesFunding for this project was provided by the German Federal Ministry of Justice and the Forum for Crime Prevention (DFK) to the first author (PI). Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEALSpringerDepartamento de Psicología Biológica y de la SaludFacultad de Psicología20232023-06-01research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/713916https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01753-2reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7139162026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Effects of the Prevention Program “HateLess. Together against Hatred” on adolescents’ empathy, self-efficacy, and countering hate speech
title Effects of the Prevention Program “HateLess. Together against Hatred” on adolescents’ empathy, self-efficacy, and countering hate speech
spellingShingle Effects of the Prevention Program “HateLess. Together against Hatred” on adolescents’ empathy, self-efficacy, and countering hate speech
Wachs, Sebastian
Hate speech
counter-speech
prevention
empathy
self-efficacy
diversity
Psicología
title_short Effects of the Prevention Program “HateLess. Together against Hatred” on adolescents’ empathy, self-efficacy, and countering hate speech
title_full Effects of the Prevention Program “HateLess. Together against Hatred” on adolescents’ empathy, self-efficacy, and countering hate speech
title_fullStr Effects of the Prevention Program “HateLess. Together against Hatred” on adolescents’ empathy, self-efficacy, and countering hate speech
title_full_unstemmed Effects of the Prevention Program “HateLess. Together against Hatred” on adolescents’ empathy, self-efficacy, and countering hate speech
title_sort Effects of the Prevention Program “HateLess. Together against Hatred” on adolescents’ empathy, self-efficacy, and countering hate speech
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Wachs, Sebastian
Wright, Michelle F.
Krause, Norman
Gámez Guadix, Manuel
author Wachs, Sebastian
author_facet Wachs, Sebastian
Wright, Michelle F.
Krause, Norman
Gámez Guadix, Manuel
author_role author
author2 Wright, Michelle F.
Krause, Norman
Gámez Guadix, Manuel
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author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la Salud
Facultad de Psicología
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Hate speech
counter-speech
prevention
empathy
self-efficacy
diversity
Psicología
topic Hate speech
counter-speech
prevention
empathy
self-efficacy
diversity
Psicología
description Currently, there is a lack of empirically evaluated prevention programs targeting hate speech among adolescents. This is problematic because hate speech jeopardizes adolescents’ well-being and social integration. To this end, this study aims to evaluate the short-term effects of the newly developed anti-hate speech prevention program, “HateLess. Together against Hatred”, on adolescents’ empathy, self-efficacy, and counter-speech. Eight hundred and twenty adolescents between 12 and 16 (M = 13.27, SD = 1.04) from 11 German schools participated in this study. More specifically, 567 adolescents participated in the one-week prevention program, and 253 participants were assigned to the control group. Repeated measures ANOVAs showed that HateLess was successful, as there was a significant increase in empathy, self-efficacy, and counter-speech in the intervention group from the pretest (T1) to the posttest (T2) one month after the intervention. In contrast, no changes were found among adolescents in the control group. A multilevel mediation model revealed that the effect of being a member of the intervention group on counter-speech was partially mediated via empathy and self-efficacy. The findings indicate that HateLess is an effective, cost-efficient approach to enhance adolescents’ counter-speech directly and indirectly by altering the skills they need to become informed citizens in democratic societies
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