Department of Psychiatric Social Work, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India.
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2014 Nov;60(7):703-10. doi: 10.1177/0020764013513440. Epub 2013 Dec 18.
Not much is known about factors that contribute to resilience among women facing intimate partner violence (IPV), particularly from countries where patriarchy predominates. This qualitative study aimed to gather the perspectives of Indian women self-identified as resilient in the face of IPV and tried to understand the strategies and resources that helped them to maintain or regain resilience.
Data were collected from 16 consenting women who reported IPV and whose husbands were being treated for alcohol problems at a psychiatric centre in Bangalore, India. A semi-structured guided interview format that aimed at understanding factors that enabled them to feel resilient despite IPV in their challenging circumstances was used to gather narratives from the participants.
Six themes were identified using QSR NVivo software. They were as follows: the support of women, men and family; personal attributes; dignity and work; being strong for the children; and faith in God. Among these women, supportive social networks, personal attributes and aspirations were major clusters contributing to resilience.
Attention to these factors may provide an important, strengths-based perspective for interventions to enhance women's resilience when facing IPV.
在面对亲密伴侣暴力 (IPV) 的女性中，导致其具有韧性的因素知之甚少，尤其是在父权制占主导地位的国家。本定性研究旨在收集印度女性的观点，这些女性自认为在面对 IPV 时具有韧性，并试图了解帮助她们保持或重新获得韧性的策略和资源。
数据来自 16 名同意参加研究的女性，她们报告了 IPV，其丈夫在印度班加罗尔的一家精神病中心接受酒精问题治疗。采用半结构化引导式访谈形式，旨在了解使她们在困难环境中感到有韧性的因素，从参与者那里收集叙述。
使用 QSR NVivo 软件确定了六个主题。它们如下：女性、男性和家庭的支持；个人属性；尊严和工作；为孩子坚强；信仰上帝。在这些女性中，支持性的社交网络、个人属性和愿望是促成韧性的主要因素。
关注这些因素可能为干预措施提供一个重要的、基于优势的视角，以增强女性在面对 IPV 时的韧性。
