Stay or leave abusive dating relationships: portuguese victims’ reasons and barriers

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Autor(a) principal: Caridade, Sónia
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Pinheiro, Inês, Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10284/8935
Resumo: The decision to stay or leave an abusive relationship is multifactorial and frequently involves a cyclic process involving several phases. This article presents a qualitative analysis regarding the reasons and barriers to stay or leave an abusive dating relationship, as well as the challenges that it implies. A semi-structured, in-depth interview was used to collect data from thirteen dating victims, aged 17–30 years and mainly female (n = 12). The emotional and affective dependence of the partner and the belief that behaviour may change emerge as the main reasons presented by the victims to remain in an abusive relationship. Shame, fear of losing the partner, and failure to recognize the abusive relationship were reported as the main barriers to leave the abusive relationship, thus making it difficult to seek help. Understanding reasons to stay in, or barriers to leave, an abusive relationship is fundamental to promoting help-seeking behaviours in victims of dating violence (DV), particularly in the case of young people, since it has serious implications in the developmental pathway of this age group.
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title Stay or leave abusive dating relationships: portuguese victims’ reasons and barriers
spellingShingle Stay or leave abusive dating relationships: portuguese victims’ reasons and barriers
Caridade, Sónia
Dating violence (DV)
Victims of dating violence
Young people
Leave abusive relationships
Stay in abusive relationships
Help-seeking
title_short Stay or leave abusive dating relationships: portuguese victims’ reasons and barriers
title_full Stay or leave abusive dating relationships: portuguese victims’ reasons and barriers
title_fullStr Stay or leave abusive dating relationships: portuguese victims’ reasons and barriers
title_full_unstemmed Stay or leave abusive dating relationships: portuguese victims’ reasons and barriers
title_sort Stay or leave abusive dating relationships: portuguese victims’ reasons and barriers
author Caridade, Sónia
author_facet Caridade, Sónia
Pinheiro, Inês
Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta
author_role author
author2 Pinheiro, Inês
Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório Institucional da Universidade Fernando Pessoa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Caridade, Sónia
Pinheiro, Inês
Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Dating violence (DV)
Victims of dating violence
Young people
Leave abusive relationships
Stay in abusive relationships
Help-seeking
topic Dating violence (DV)
Victims of dating violence
Young people
Leave abusive relationships
Stay in abusive relationships
Help-seeking
description The decision to stay or leave an abusive relationship is multifactorial and frequently involves a cyclic process involving several phases. This article presents a qualitative analysis regarding the reasons and barriers to stay or leave an abusive dating relationship, as well as the challenges that it implies. A semi-structured, in-depth interview was used to collect data from thirteen dating victims, aged 17–30 years and mainly female (n = 12). The emotional and affective dependence of the partner and the belief that behaviour may change emerge as the main reasons presented by the victims to remain in an abusive relationship. Shame, fear of losing the partner, and failure to recognize the abusive relationship were reported as the main barriers to leave the abusive relationship, thus making it difficult to seek help. Understanding reasons to stay in, or barriers to leave, an abusive relationship is fundamental to promoting help-seeking behaviours in victims of dating violence (DV), particularly in the case of young people, since it has serious implications in the developmental pathway of this age group.
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