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Description: We aim to evaluate the effectiveness of the prevention program "Back in time", which the Dobronauti company developed. The goal of the program is to prevent bullying and negative child behavior in elementary schools. We preregister all the methods, materials, research questions, and hypotheses with the intended analytical procedure. We consider the preregistration necessary as the Dobronauti company funds the research; therefore, it is interested in the positive results. Preregistration ensures high research standards despite the potential conflict of interest. The program's duration is three months (one session per week), and it has already started at the time of this preregistration in about 15 classes alongside the first data collection. However, nobody has seen the data, and no analyses have been performed at the date. The second data will be collected in December after the end of the preventive program. The third (and last) data collection will be performed in March or April, about three months after the end of the program. We measure in particular child self-efficacy and knowledge of how to behave in critical situations, supplemented by teacher data (e.g., self-efficacy, teaching style, the occurrence of bullying). The project was approved by The Research Ethics Committee of Masaryk University (EKV-2021-089).