Violência no namoro : avaliação e as estratégias de enfrentamento de vítimas e agressores

• Autor(a) principal: Mora Guerrero, Diana Carolina
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/9051
• topic: Psicologia; Jovens; Violência - Aspectos psicológicos.; Violência no namoro; 159.9

The next research had the purpose of researching how young victims and aggressors of physical and/or psychological violence in relationships evaluate this type of violence. This is an exploratory, qualitative study, with a sample of 10 young people, 5 women and 5 men, with ages between 18 and 30 years that suffered physical and/or psychological violence in their affective/sexual relationships. To collect the data, several college students answered a questionnaire that was applied in the classrooms of the Universidad Federal de Espíritu Santo. The young people that agreed on participating were contacted via email or telephone. Then, a semi-structured interview guide was used on topics such as: physical and/or psychological violence in relationships, personal characteristics of the participants and their partners, knowledge about the violence subject, evaluation of the violence and coping strategies used when it happened, and the support network they reached out to. The interviews were marked based on the availability of the participant, in scheduled hours, in the offices of the Núcleo de Psicología Aplicada (NPA) in the building of Psychology graduation of the UFES. These young people signed a Free and Informed Consent. The interviews were analyzed based on Content Analysis, through thematic analysis. The results showed that these young people have a very clear idea about the meaning of physical and psychological violence. A bidirectionality of both types of violence was evident, both women and men were victims and/or aggressors in their relationships. None of the sexes showed a coping strategy to violence, solving their conflicts through physical and verbal aggression. The young people interviewed didn’t seek any specialized help, not even in their own support network in their situation. The analysis of their stories shows that in the moment where the violence occurred, it was not recognized as such, given that the beliefs of a “romantic love” persist, as well as there are still some unequal gender identity patterns, that motivate and legitimate the reproduction of the violence in the relationships. We found young people from college having violent affective-sexual relationships, where both men and women were victims as well as aggressors. These young people don’t have the tools for conflict resolution and due to fear and shame, they prefer not to talk about their situation with friends, family members or professionals.