Women who experienced intimate partner violence: : suffering and overcoming

• Autor(a) principal: Stefanini, Jaqueline Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Braga, Tatiana Benevides Magalhães, Sousa, Johnatan Martins, Farinha, Marciana Gonçalves
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Perspectivas em Psicologia (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/perspectivasempsicologia/article/view/68083
• topic: Violência por parceiro íntimo; Promoção da saúde; Saúde da Mulher; violência contra a mulher; Violência; Intimate Partner Violence; Violence against Women; Violence; Health promotion; Women's Health

The aim is to analyze women's perceptions about exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV), its repercussions and resistance strategies. Qualitative study using thematic oral history. Four women assisted at the Women's Reference and Assistance Center participated. Data were collected through interviews, recorded at scheduled times in the participants' homes, with an average duration of 40 minutes. The findings were submitted to inductive thematic analysis. Data analysis generated three thematic units: 1) factors associated with the occurrence of IPV; 2) repercussions of IPV on women's lives and 3) resistance strategies to break the cycle of violence. Women's perception of IPV is linked to psychosocial support for coping with it, tending to naturalize violence in the absence of legitimacy and support from the victim and greater clarity about violent behavior in scenarios of greater psychosocial belonging. The repercussions, which cover the health of women and children in the physical, sexual, emotional, social, work and reproductive dimensions, tend to be broader in contexts of more intense and prolonged exposure to IPV. Women exposed to IPV, when receiving psychosocial support, can minimize the difficulties and modify the risk factors to which they are exposed.