Social support seeking among women victims of intimate partner violence: a qualitative analysis of lived experiences

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dc.contributor.authorPuente Martínez, Alicia
dc.contributor.authorReyes Sosa, Hyram
dc.contributor.authorUbillos Landa, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorIraurgi Castillo, Ioseba
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-19T10:51:55Z
dc.date.available2025-05-19T10:51:55Z
dc.date.issued2025-04
dc.date.updated2025-05-19T10:51:55Z
dc.description.abstractPurpose: Intimate partner violence against women is a major source of morbidity and mortality among women worldwide. In this study, 131 testimonies of female victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) are examined to study the factors associated with victims’ decision to seek social support (formal and informal). Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with female victims of IPV in Spain. The IRaMuTeQ 7 software was used to analyze the discourses. A total of 10,845 words with 1183 different forms were examined. Results: The analysis identified six clusters. Cluster 1 (18% of the total content) reflects the emotional component of aggression (fear of death). Cluster 2 (13.1%) describes psychological aggression (threatening), and Cluster 3 (17.2%) refers to the use of power within relationships (control). Cluster 6 (13.8%) includes different types of physical aggression (hitting); and Clusters 4 (21%) and 5 (16.9%) refer to formal (judging) and informal (friends) social support. Conclusions: Results indicated a strong association between emotions (e.g., fear of dying) and physical and psychological aggression. Non-fatal strangulation represented an extreme form of physical violence that was used to control women increasing the risk of violence becoming lethal. Women tended to seek more support when the violence increased, and they perceived a greater risk to their children. There was an association between suffering violence, power, control, and seeking formal and informal social support. Results have significant implications to interrupt coercive control processes and to motivate help seeking behaviors in victims of IPV.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis piece of research was funded by Projects led by the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Science (MCIN/ AEI/https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033/), reference PID2020- 16658GB-I00PSIen
dc.identifier.citationPuente-Martínez, A., Reyes-Sosa, H., Ubillos-Landa, S., & Iraurgi-Castillo, I. (2025). Social support seeking among women victims of intimate partner violence: a qualitative analysis of lived experiences. Journal of Family Violence, 40(3), 463-476. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10896-023-00622-7
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/S10896-023-00622-7
dc.identifier.eissn1573-2851
dc.identifier.issn0885-7482
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2769
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2023
dc.subject.otherCoercive control
dc.subject.otherIntimate partner violence against women
dc.subject.otherNon-fatal strangulation
dc.subject.otherQualitative study
dc.subject.otherSupport seeking
dc.titleSocial support seeking among women victims of intimate partner violence: a qualitative analysis of lived experiencesen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.endPage476
oaire.citation.issue3
oaire.citation.startPage463
oaire.citation.titleJournal of Family Violence
oaire.citation.volume40
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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