Evaluation of Aggression-Reducing Effects of the “Viennese Social Competence Training”

The “Viennese Social Competence Training” (ViSC), a primary violence prevention program for school classes, is summatively and formatively evaluated. The summative evaluation focused on the effectiveness of ViSC concerning the reduction of aggressive behavior; the formative evaluation focused on program implementation and accomplishment of training principles. Four school classes (N = 109) participated in the program, three school-classes (N = 75) served as controls. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected before, during, shortly after and 4 months after the training. Qualitative data indicate high quality of program implementation and accomplishment of training principles. Quantitative data show a decrease in aggressive behavior responses among trained classes. Findings are discussed with regard to their usefulness for future evaluation studies.

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