ICT-enabled Social-emotional Learning: Development of Responsibility and Well-being in the Educational Environment (emoTIC)

The purpose of the study is to develop adolescents' social-emotional abilities to foster their personal and social responsibility, as well as their well-being, by means of a school-based intervention that addresses students, teachers and parents who participate in a social-emotional program using a technological platform. The program consists of activities based on solid theoretical frameworks on emotional intelligence, development of responsibility and meaningful learning.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Adolescent - Emotional Problem
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: ICT-enabled Social-emotional Learning

Detailed Description

EmoTIC is an emotional education program focused on the development of social-emotional competences through an application that can be used in mobile devices and tablets.The program is based on a space adventure, and provides reinforcement through score points and more time for the additional games. The duration of the program is 8 weeks.

The emoTIC 8 version is designed so that teachers can easily carry it out in their classrooms. The application consists of application-guided activities that are put into practice in class, and includes other exercises that are meant to be carried out at home. The activities that are designed to be carried out during school hours are named "missions", and the exercises the students will do at home are called "trainings". Both are essential to adequately conduct the intervention.

The emoTIC SPACE version is designed so that it is carried out autonomously at home, through application-guided activities. This version includes 8 activities for each of the 4 areas.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 385
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Valencia
    • Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 46010
      • Universitat de València

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 10 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• To have signed the informed consent (or their legal tutors).
• Being between 11 and 18 years old.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to understand the activities or the language used.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention group; During the tutoring time, the intervention program is carried out in the experimental group, through emoTIC. EmoTIC is an emotional education program focused on the development of social-emotional competences through an application that can be used in mobile devices and tablets.	Other: ICT-enabled Social-emotional Learning; ICT-enabled Social-emotional Learning
No Intervention: Control group; During the period in which the intervention program is conducted in the experimental group, the control group will remain in the waitlist (will not participate in the intervention), and will carry out the program once the study is finished.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Emotional Intelligence	Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-24)	Time 1 (first month)
Emotional Intelligence	Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-24)	Time 2 (4th month)
Emotional Intelligence	Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS-24)	Time 3 (up to 1 year)
Subjective Well-Being	Life satisfaction and positive and negative affects	Time 1 (first month)
Subjective Well-Being	Life satisfaction and positive and negative affects	Time 2 (4th month)
Subjective Well-Being	Life satisfaction and positive and negative affects	Time 3 (up to 1 year)
Emotional Competence	Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire	Time 1 (first month)
Emotional Competence	Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire	Time 2 (4th month)
Emotional Competence	Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire	Time 3 (up to 1 year)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Somatic complaints	The Somatic Complain List (SCL-10)	Time 1 (first month)
Somatic complaints	The Somatic Complain List (SCL-10)	Time 2 (4th month)
Somatic complaints	The Somatic Complain List (SCL-10)	Time 3 (up to 1 year)
Depression, Anxiety and Stress	Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale	Time 1 (first month)
Depression, Anxiety and Stress	Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale	Time 2 (4th month)
Depression, Anxiety and Stress	Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale	Time 3 (up to 1 year)
Psychosocial adjustment	Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire	Time 1 (first month)
Psychosocial adjustment	Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire	Time 2 (4th month)
Psychosocial adjustment	Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire	Time 3 (up to 1 year)
Suicide ideation	"Sentia" Scale	Time 1 (first month)
Suicide ideation	"Sentia" Scale	Time 2 (4th month)
Suicide ideation	"Sentia" Scale	Time 3 (up to 1 year)
Personality	Mini-Ipip Questionnaire	Time 1 (first month)
Personality	Mini-Ipip Questionnaire	Time 2 (4th month)
Personality	Mini-Ipip Questionnaire	Time 3 (up to 1 year)
Self-esteem	Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale	Time 1 (first month)
Self-esteem	Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale	Time 2 (4th month)
Self-esteem	Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale	Time 3 (up to 1 year)
Self-Efficacy	General Self-Efficacy Scale	Time 1 (first month)
Self-Efficacy	General Self-Efficacy Scale	Time 2 (4th month)
Self-Efficacy	General Self-Efficacy Scale	Time 3 (up to 1 year)
School Social Climate	Questionnaire to Assess School Social Climate (CECSCE)	Time 1 (first month)
School Social Climate	Questionnaire to Assess School Social Climate (CECSCE)	Time 2 (4th month)
School Social Climate	Questionnaire to Assess School Social Climate (CECSCE)	Time 3 (up to 1 year)
Social Responsibility	Personal and Social Responsibility Questionnaire (PSRQ)	Time 1 (first month)
Social Responsibility	Personal and Social Responsibility Questionnaire (PSRQ)	Time 2 (4th month)
Social Responsibility	Personal and Social Responsibility Questionnaire (PSRQ)	Time 3 (up to 1 year)
Subjective Happiness	Subjective Happiness Scale	Time 1 (first month)
Subjective Happiness	Subjective Happiness Scale	Time 2 (4th month)
Subjective Happiness	Subjective Happiness Scale	Time 3 (up to 1 year)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Valencia
• Collaborators: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Inmaculada Montoya-Castilla, PhD, Universitat de València

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• De la Barrera U, Postigo-Zegarra S, Monaco E, Gil-Gomez JA, Montoya-Castilla I. Serious game to promote socioemotional learning and mental health (emoTIC): a study protocol for randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2021 Dec 31;11(12):e052491. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052491.
• de la Barrera U, Monaco E, Postigo-Zegarra S, Gil-Gomez JA, Montoya-Castilla I. EmoTIC: Impact of a game-based social-emotional programme on adolescents. PLoS One. 2021 Apr 16;16(4):e0250384. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250384. eCollection 2021.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): December 31, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 29, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 2, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): June 4, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 30, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 29, 2026
• Last Verified: November 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Schools; Emotional Intelligence; Training Programs; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
• Other Study ID Numbers: PSI2017-84005-R (Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No