Violencia conyugal y dependencia afectiva: un estudio cualitativo en población masculina

Abstract

Conjugal violence has been a psychosocial phenomenon of interest, as well as a public health problem that has generated great repercussions both for those who are victims and those around them. In addition, it has been a problem legitimized and studied with a special focus on women. This is a qualitative-hermeneutic research developed through videographic scenes that represented conjugal violence towards men and through semi-structured interviews. The meanings on conjugal violence given by six men assigned to the psychology faculty of a private university of Colombia, were identified and understood from the perspective of affective dependence in order to characterize the problem, as well as giving it more visibility. The results showed that men mean conjugal violence towards men as physical actions that occur between partners, behaviors that are tolerated with the purpose of being worthy of the other, a consequence of affective dependence and/or as a behavior of dominance that generates teasing. Beyond the expected results, it was also observed that the invisibility of conjugal violence towards men is highly related to cultural patterns implied by genre in a sexist society

Keywords

• meanings
• conjugal violence
• affective dependence
• gender violence
• masculinity
• cultural hegemonies