Identity styles in women victims from conjugal violence: design and validation of an instrument

Abstract

Partner violence is a current problem with family involvement The aim of the research was to design and validate an instrument to explore identity styles in women residing in the State of Mexico who live or have lived intimate partner violence. Questionnaire design is performed on the results of a semantic network applied to women abused by their partners. The definers were based on the theory of symbolic interactionism of Erving Goffman: the presence of a spoiled identity generated by a difference between virtual and actual social identity. Instrument was applied to 570 women mostly senior college students. The data were processed by factor analysis, Cronbach's alfa and t student, which reported a 45.2% explained variance expressed by five factors. The instrument obtained a high level of internal consistency (alfa .929)

Keywords

• conjugal violence
• gender identity
• gender stereotype
• design questionnaire
• social identity