Personal Tools and Psychosocial Resources of Resilient Gender-Based Violence Women

Rebeca García Montes, Inmaculada Corral Liria, Raquel Jimenez Fernandez, Rocío Rodriguez Vázquez, Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa Vallejo and Marta Losa Iglesias
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Rebeca García Montes: Nursing and Stomatology Department, Health Sciences Faculty, King Juan Carlos University of Madrid, 28922 Madrid, Spain
Inmaculada Corral Liria: Nursing and Stomatology Department, Health Sciences Faculty, King Juan Carlos University of Madrid, 28922 Madrid, Spain
Raquel Jimenez Fernandez: Nursing and Stomatology Department, Health Sciences Faculty, King Juan Carlos University of Madrid, 28922 Madrid, Spain
Rocío Rodriguez Vázquez: Nursing and Stomatology Department, Health Sciences Faculty, King Juan Carlos University of Madrid, 28922 Madrid, Spain
Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa Vallejo: Nursing Department, Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry Faculty, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Marta Losa Iglesias: Nursing and Stomatology Department, Health Sciences Faculty, King Juan Carlos University of Madrid, 28922 Madrid, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 16, 1-11

Abstract: Gender-based violence is considered a serious social and public health problem. Overcoming this situation implies a process that results in the favorable biopsychosocial rehabilitation of the resilience of women. The objective of this study was to analyze the tools, resources and personal and psychosocial mechanisms used by women survivors of gender-based violence. The design was an interpretative phenomenology. It was carried out with 22 women who have overcome gender-based violence. Data were collected through personal interviews and narration. The results were grouped into four themes: “Process of violence”, “Social resources for coping and overcoming GBV”, “Personal tools for coping and overcoming GBV” and “Feelings identified, from the abuse stage to the survival stage”. Several studies concluded that overcoming abuse is influenced by the women’s social network, and it can be the action of these people determining their survival to gender violence. Despite the recognized usefulness of these available resources, it would be desirable to strengthen them in order to be able to drive more women toward survival, assuming a strengthening of coping and overcoming, without forgetting the importance of other support mechanisms, such as their family and group therapies.

Keywords: gender-based violence; coping; abuse; survival; resilient (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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