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Puente Martínez, Alicia Reyes Sosa, Hyram Ubillos Landa, Silvia Iraurgi Castillo, Ioseba 2024-06-13T07:36:26Z 2024-06-13T07:36:26Z 2023-08-29 0885-7482 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9253 10.1007/s10896-023-00622-7 1573-2851 Purpose: Intimate partner violence against women is a major source of morbidity and mortality among women worldwide. In this study, 131 testimonies of female victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) are examined to study the factors associated with victims’ decision to seek social support (formal and informal). Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with female victims of IPV in Spain. The IRaMuTeQ 7 software was used to analyze the discourses. A total of 10,845 words with 1183 different forms were examined. Results: The analysis identified six clusters. Cluster 1 (18% of the total content) reflects the emotional component of aggression (fear of death). Cluster 2 (13.1%) describes psychological aggression (threatening), and Cluster 3 (17.2%) refers to the use of power within relationships (control). Cluster 6 (13.8%) includes different types of physical aggression (hitting); and Clusters 4 (21%) and 5 (16.9%) refer to formal (judging) and informal (friends) social support. Conclusions: Results indicated a strong association between emotions (e.g., fear of dying) and physical and psychological aggression. Non-fatal strangulation represented an extreme form of physical violence that was used to control women increasing the risk of violence becoming lethal. Women tended to seek more support when the violence increased, and they perceived a greater risk to their children. There was an association between suffering violence, power, control, and seeking formal and informal social support. Results have significant implications to interrupt coercive control processes and to motivate help seeking behaviors in victims of IPV. Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. This piece of research was funded by Projects led by the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Science (MCIN/ AEI/https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033/), reference PID2020- 16658GB-I00PSI. application/pdf eng Springer Nature Journal of Family Violence. 2023 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-023-00622-7 Atribución 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Intimate partner violence against women Support seeking Coercive control Non-fatal strangulation Qualitative study Psicología Violencia de género Psychology Women-Abuse of Social Support Seeking Among Women Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Analysis of Lived Experiences info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Journal of Family Violence