Violencia de pareja desde la perspectiva del hombre maltratado

Abstract

Partner violence is part of the modality of interpersonal violence that arises within the family between two people who are emotionally related without their marital or cohabitation status prevailing, where a member acts as an aggressor exercising on the victim an active behavior, of action or omission with the intention of hurting, damaging or controlling, manifesting according to its typology as physical, psychological, economic, social or sexual violence, causing psychological affectations at the emotional, cognitive and behavioral level in the abused person . In general, when emphasizing partner violence, it is thought that only the woman is a victim, however, the man does not always act as an aggressor and currently the cases of male victims of abuse have increased, that is why the interest has arisen to gather information from that, being the present investigation that aims to identify, the psychological effects that prevail in battered men whose factors affect the choice to continue with their romantic partner with violent behavior, through the analysis of the influential family context. The research was carried out under the modality of mixed, qualitative-quantitative study, with descriptive and interpretative scope and the methods used were analytical-synthetic, narrative-biographical. The approach used was the Systemic, understood as the study of the parts and of the whole, which are composed and interconnected in a certain context by relations between the subsystems and nearby external systems that influence others, therefore, it was taken as the basis epistemological and support theory the Systemic Ecological Model. The categories of analysis were partner violence regarding their modalities, psychological affectations and psychosocial factors that influence battered men to continue with their partner. The three study subjects are adults between 26 and 35 years old, live with their partners and children and have been victims of violence in the last six months. The techniques applied were, semi-structured interview of the participants and to complement the data obtained by the reagents: Domestic Violence: Frequency and Perception VIDOFyP identifies the type of violence, Questionnaire of Emotional Response to Violence REV assesses 4 dimensions depression, anxiety, psychosocial adjustment and irritable mood, Beck Depression Inventory BDI-II assesses depressive symptomatology, The Hamilton Anxiety Assessment Scale HAM-A assesses psychic and somatic anxiety from absence to its maximum intensity, and Scale of Flight Blocking in Situations of Abuse EBHSM identifies the factors for a person to remain in a situation of violence. It is concluded that in the cases studied physical and psychological violence was evidenced including economic and social violence, mixed symptoms of depression and anxiety that influence the areas of their daily lives, while the impact that the separation of the couple has on the children, beliefs regarding the hope that the couple modifies their abusive attitudes, ambivalent anxious attachment style and emotional dependence on the couple, are psychosocial factors that motivate the subjects Continue with your partners.