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T1 Social Support Seeking Among Women Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Analysis of Lived Experiences
A1 Puente Martínez, Alicia
A1 Reyes Sosa, Hyram
A1 Ubillos Landa, Silvia
A1 Iraurgi Castillo, Ioseba
K1 Intimate partner violence against women
K1 Support seeking
K1 Coercive control
K1 Non-fatal strangulation
K1 Qualitative study
K1 Psicología
K1 Psychology
K1 Violencia de género
K1 Women-Abuse of
AB 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.
PB Springer Nature
SN 0885-7482
YR 2023
FD 2023-08-29
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9253
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9253
LA eng
NO 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.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 23-nov-2024