Jaskulska, Sylwia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3454-7894
Jankowiak, Barbara
Sanz-Barbero, Belén
De Claire, Karen
Bowes, Nicola
Silva, Estefânia
Neves, Sofia
Albaladejo-Blázquez, Natalia
Pyżalski, Jacek
Waszyńska, Katarzyna
Chmura-Rutkowska, Iwona
Vives-Cases, Carmen
Funding for this research was provided by:
Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (776905)
Article History
Received: 5 May 2021
Revised: 30 May 2022
Accepted: 28 July 2022
First Online: 5 September 2022
Declarations
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: This manuscript has not been published previously and will not be submitted to any other journal while under consideration by the Journal of Happiness Studies. All authors have approved the final manuscript. We declare no conflict of interest. The paper has been professionally proofread.
: Data was collected by project partners based at universities in various countries and all the information gathered by the project partners and beneficiaries was confidential. Participation was voluntary. Each partner was required to obtain the permission of their own ethics committees along with a signed informed consent document from the school, headteachers, parents, and students. Participants created a unique participant code for themselves at the first data collection point. In cases in which a student reported having been abused by an adult, each country used its own protocol to inform the school. Due to the anonymity of participants responding to the questionnaire, it was impossible to identify the victims. However, it was possible to inform the school about the number of student reports of abuse. Each school was responsible for following the respective protocol to intervene. The Lights4Violence project protocol was approved by the ethical committee of the University of Alicante, the University Institute of Maia, Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Grigore T. Popa, and Adam Mickiewicz University. Waivers were obtained from the Libera Universita Maria SS. Assunta of Rome and Cardiff Metropolitan University. These ethics approvals covered the individual schools where the intervention was performed. It was also registered in ClinicalTrials.gov by the coordinator (Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT03411564. Unique Protocol ID: 776,905. Date registered: 18 January 2018).
: All authors whose names appear on the submission: 1) made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; 2) drafted the work or revised it critically for important intellectual content; 3) approved the version to be published; and 4) agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
: The final findings highlight the importance of creating healthy, non-violent romantic relationships for building happiness in adolescence as well as the need to develop educational interventions focused on the development of problem-solving skills and seeking social support.